Overwintering in The Argolic

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We have just put our boat up for the winter in Basimakopouli Shipyard, Koilada Bay, in the Argolic - as recommended by JimBSail's Jim Baersleman. Can heartily endorse his opinion of the yard. Prices are comparable with Aktio/Preveza area; new steel cradles;very professional staff; manager Iliou Evangelos has excellent English and is very helpful. www.basimakopouloi.gr

Also charming lodgings, five minutes' walk from the yard with Mrs Matoula - apartments at €30/40 per night.
matoulavogkli@gmail.com
0030 275 406 1163
 
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ITH said:
We have just put our boat up for the winter in Basimakopouli Shipyard, Koilada Bay, in the Argolic - as recommended by JimBSail's Jim Baersleman. Can heartily endorse his opinion of the yard. Prices are comparable with Aktio/Preveza area; new steel cradles;very professional staff; manager Iliou Evangelos has excellent English and is very helpful. www.basimakopouli.gr

Also charming lodgings, five minutes' walk from the yard with Mrs Matoula - apartments at €30/40 per night.
matoulavogkli@gmail.com
0030 275 406 1163
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Your first link not working
http://www.basimakopouli.gr It is www.BSG.com.gr or http://www.basimakopouloi.gr/ I think
 
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How much are you paying for the boat to be laid up there per foot and are you allowed to do your own work.?
 
wazza said:
How much are you paying for the boat to be laid up there per foot and are you allowed to do your own work.?
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You can do your own work, or use the yard, quite a few independents work there as well, for our 10.43 meter boat it works out about 120 euros per month, discounts are given for new customers to the yard. haul in and out for ours is 400 includes pressure wash and metal cradle, haul out is by travel lift not a crane.
Hope that helps.
 
paulingreece said:
You can do your own work, or use the yard, quite a few independents work there as well, for our 10.43 meter boat it works out about 120 euros per month, discounts are given for new customers to the yard. haul in and out for ours is 400 includes pressure wash and metal cradle, haul out is by travel lift not a crane.
Hope that helps.
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Certainly is good value for money - it's costing me about €140/month, including lift-out and pressure wash for 7 months which is about €120 less, cumulative.
Some questions:-
1, How easy to get to Athens by coach? If it's only a couple of hours that alone would make it superior to Preveza?
I have to use Thessaloniki, fewer flights and going to LGW which, for me, is a pain.
2.What are shoreside facilities like - shower? hot? toilets?
My experience of economy yards is that they are less generous with those.
 
Charles, re travel to Athens by coach, this response is from VyvCox (on another forum):

"A bus to Kranidi stops right outside the gate. Pay on the bus. Change there for the express bus to Athens. Tickets for the express bus can be bought in a shop nearby. It takes about three hours, with a stop at Isthmia, from memory."

Shoreside facilities are perfectly adequate, with male/female toilets and quite roomy hot showers.
 
We tried Basimakopouloi back in September when looking for somewhere to over-winter, but were treated rather casually and told it was probably fully booked. So we went instead to the Evoiko yard at Oropos which was mentioned here a couple of years back. (http://www.ybw.com/forums/showthread.php?323100-Evoiko-Sea-Centre-Boatyard).

It's somewhat cheaper, €110/month for an 11m yacht, with tax but not including lift-out. Vyv_cox baulked at the sled lift-out. It's still just the same but caused us no problem. Better than some of the lift-out operations we experienced when world cruising. Watching other yachts using it, some slipped in easily, others struggled. It seemed very much a matter of judging the side-slip correctly as you approach. Facilities ashore are basic but adequate: showers, toilets, water, power, wifi. However there's no café on site (several ½ mile away), while the nearest chandlery is at Khalkis 15 miles away.
 
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There are actually 3 yards around Oropos. See http://www.jimbsail.info/mediterranean/greece/n-aegean for details.

For good communications and access to facilities, it's worth considering Kalamata for wintering. Frequent buses to Athens only take about 3 hours now the motorway extends the whole way, and the town has a wide range of manufacturing and diesel engineering assets, not least of which is Yanni's red van running back and forth from his chandlery.
 
charles_reed said:
Certainly is good value for money - it's costing me about €140/month, including lift-out and pressure wash for 7 months which is about €120 less, cumulative.
Some questions:-
1, How easy to get to Athens by coach? If it's only a couple of hours that alone would make it superior to Preveza?
I have to use Thessaloniki, fewer flights and going to LGW which, for me, is a pain.
2.What are shoreside facilities like - shower? hot? toilets?
My experience of economy yards is that they are less generous with those.
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There is hot water showers and toilets on site, water and electric points near all boats.
Metro train to Corinthos then bus to Kilada, or Bus to Piraeus port then flying Dolphin to Ermioni or Porto Heli, 30 euros, 15 for taxi to the yard. Ryanair fly from Stansted to Athens all year now book early 25 euros one way.
The yard at Kilada is very big and well run, friendly staff, internet ports, etc.
 
ITH said:
Charles, re travel to Athens by coach, this response is from VyvCox (on another forum):

"A bus to Kranidi stops right outside the gate. Pay on the bus. Change there for the express bus to Athens. Tickets for the express bus can be bought in a shop nearby. It takes about three hours, with a stop at Isthmia, from memory."

Shoreside facilities are perfectly adequate, with male/female toilets and quite roomy hot showers.
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Thanks for that - as JimB points out, Kalamata is (IMHO) a great place - but they'd struggle to match the prices that the smaller yards are quoting.
I usually call in there every season, mainly to look up locals and get reasonably priced boat maintenance parts.
The Aegean is a refreshing change from the Ionian - more wind, less pricey, almost no bareboat charterers and extremely friendly locals. And that includes the PP who are definitely more on the ball and less on the take than in the Ionian.
 
vyv_cox said:
Have the showers and toilets been upgraded from the portacabin ones that were in use a few years ago?
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Sorry Vyv, I don't know what they were like a few years ago, it's my first visit: but they are situated at the back of the main office building, access via a raised walkway. They're not masonry built, but the interior looks fairly recent.
 
ITH said:
Sorry Vyv, I don't know what they were like a few years ago, it's my first visit: but they are situated at the back of the main office building, access via a raised walkway. They're not masonry built, but the interior looks fairly recent.
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That sounds similar to the ones I remember. Greeks seem to have problems with the concept of water flowing downhill! Even the palatial new shower block at Leros has flat, level floors that need squeegeeing after use, a problem that I recall at Koilada.
 
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