New flares in Greece - where to buy

[whiteoaks7]

Pantaneus want me to have in-date flares before they will insure me for bimbling around the Ionion. Since I clearly can't buy them here in UK and carry them to Preveza I'll have to buy them locally - are these difficult to obtain? I've never looked.

 

[duncan99210]

If you're in one of the Preveza yards the chandlers in the yards will happily sell you parachute, floating red smoke and handheld red flares. The last will probably be Greek ones which you ignite with match composition on the flare cap: they also have a printed disposal instruction on them telling you to dump it at sea when time expired.....

 

[Bertramdriver]

If you're in one of the Preveza yards the chandlers in the yards will happily sell you parachute, floating red smoke and handheld red flares. The last will probably be Greek ones which you ignite with match composition on the flare cap: they also have a printed disposal instruction on them telling you to dump it at sea when time expired.....

They are also a lot cheaper

 

[charles_reed]

Dead easy - just go to the nearest chandlers - you can get UK, or Italian made ones or Greek ones, the latter being extremely cheap.
The PP in some ports in the Aegean, were inspecting people's flares and forbidding them from leaving until they had in-date ones during 2013 - more significantly they were inspecting fire-extinguishers and UK ones with no expiry/inspection dates were being rejected.

 

[captmikecoin]

Try Ionian Marine Safety, Levkas. Nikos Stamatakis (tel: 0030 697 33 17 948) has Pains Wessex stuff if you want a known standard of quality.

Cheers,

Mike

 

[Tony Cross]

Do check the expiry date first though. I have seen flares offered for sale in Greece at full price with barely a year left on them.

 

[spencerd]

I get my flares from Ionian Marine Safety, Preveza, as well as all the other safety stuff. Recommended

 

[Bertramdriver]

Try Ionian Marine Safety, Levkas. Nikos Stamatakis (tel: 0030 697 33 17 948) has Pains Wessex stuff if you want a known standard of quality.

Cheers,

Mike

Where is their shop?

 

[captmikecoin]

Their address is Tzevelaki Street, Levkas 31100,Greece. If you follow the link below you can see their location. Sorry but it's too complicated to describe how to get there. https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewe...8.829662,20.710977&spn=0.004455,0.009238&z=17

They have a website: http://ioniansafety.com

Mike

 

[smb]

Another vote for Nikos at Ionian Marine. He also services our life raft and did a good repair job on a 4 inch split in our Avon.

Steve