Cyclades catamaran charter
itineraries.
Cyclades, in the broker’s words.
The Cyclades cluster sits south-east of Athens and forms the iconic Aegean catamaran cruising ground — twenty-four inhabited islands arranged in a rough crescent from Kea in the north to Anafi in the south. Charter departures concentrate at the Athens marinas (Alimos, Kalamaki and Lavrion), with Paros and Mykonos picking up the fly-in market through July and August.
Wind drives the routing. The meltemi blows from the north at 4–6 Beaufort through high summer and occasionally surges past 7. Catamarans handle the meltemi better than monohulls on the run south because the wide beam keeps the platform flat in 25-knot gusts; the leeward anchorages of Kythnos, Serifos and Sifnos hold a 1.2-metre draft comfortably on sand at 4–6 metres where deeper-keel monohulls have to stand further off. Returning north against the meltemi is the leg most catamaran crews avoid — one-way charters Athens → Mykonos with the boat repositioned northbound out of season are common.
Headline catamaran anchorages include Vourkari on Kea (sheltered north basin, town quay free), Livadi on Serifos (deep sand bay), Kamares on Sifnos (the photogenic Cycladic crescent), Ormos Marathi on Paros, and the Tourlos new marina on Mykonos (lazy lines, US$200+ per night in August). Santorini has no proper marina; catamarans anchor in Vlychada under the cliffs and dinghy ashore for the volcanic-caldera inland tour.
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