Ionian catamaran charter
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The Ionian Sea sits west of mainland Greece — a chain of seven main islands (Corfu, Paxos, Lefkada, Ithaca, Kefalonia, Zakynthos, plus the smaller Meganisi / Kastos / Kalamos cluster) separated from the mainland by 1–5 nautical mile channels. Catamaran charter activity concentrates at three bases: Corfu (Gouvia Marina at the north end), Lefkada (D-Marin Lefkas on the east coast, accessed via the Lefkas Canal swing-bridge that opens on the hour), and Preveza (Cleopatra Marina on the mainland, 25 minutes from Aktion airport).

The wind regime is the Ionian's signature: light afternoon thermals from the south-west (rarely above 5 Beaufort), morning calms through summer, and warm-water bays the colour of a swimming pool. Catamarans handle the chain efficiently because most passages run 8–18 NM line-of-sight between sheltered bays — Lefkas to Meganisi is 6 NM, Lefkas to Ithaca 14 NM — and the wide-beam shallow-draft platform sits comfortably on the sand seabeds at 4–8 metres that line every inhabited bay.

Headline catamaran anchorages include Spartochori on Meganisi (cliff-top village reached by a 200-step staircase from the bay), Kioni on Ithaca (Venetian windmills on the headland), Fiskardo on Kefalonia (the only village to escape the 1953 earthquake intact, with the most-photographed pastel waterfront in the chain), and Vasiliki on south Lefkada (the Ionian's kitesurfing capital, west-thermal afternoons routinely above 20 knots). Cross-border one-way charters to Italy via Otranto (Puglia) are technically permitted with a transit log filed in advance — a common early-summer repositioning move for fleet boats out of winter storage.