Short term mooring Levkas?

[Cspirit]

I need to leave our boat (Westerly Corsair) somewhere around Levkas for about six weeks in April/May this year. I know that Levkas marina is a possibility but, like most of us, I'd like to do this as economically as possible. Someone recommended Joe Charlton in Levkas. Has anyone used this yard? Are there other possibilities that I'm unaware of?

 

[macd]

List of Levkas services here: http://www.noonsite.com/Countries/Greece/Lefkas?showAllEntries=1&rc=MarineServices

Charlton (CYS) has a small yard; also does guardeniage on boats moored on the town quay.

Levkas marina gets pricey from 1 April, although they will do deals up to a point. Rates for 11m: euros 35/391 per day/month, plus VAT.

Cheapest option may be at anchor in Vliho Bay: Vliho Yacht club offers guardeniage.

 

[nimbusgb]

It may be cheaper to haul and leave ashore in Preveza. Last year for a 6 week stay in high season I got a deal cheaper than being afloat in Preveza town and that included haul and relaunch and it saves on the taxi/bus ride from the airport to levkas!

Depending on ground tackle you can leave unattended in Nidri for free but i'd pay guardienage given 2011's events.

 

[rivonia]

You can use the Town Quay in Lefkas as well for a few euroes. Otherwise free i n Nidri

Peter

 

[jimbaerselman]

Pull onto mud in "Tranquil Bay" (anything but!) just opposite Nidri, with anchor off and lines ashore. Many similar options in the area.

Of course, never leave a boat lying to its own anchor off a quay in Greece; someone will hook it off the bottom as they depart . . .

 

[B&M]

Many people leave their boats in Vliho Bay under guardiennage. I know that Ruari at Vliho Yacht Club has several moorings for this purpose.

 

[duncan99210]

Many people leave their boats in Vliho Bay under guardiennage. I know that Ruari at Vliho Yacht Club has several moorings for this purpose.

+1. They'll also help you get to the airport at Preveza if you ask nicely. See their website at http://www.vlihoyc.com/yacht-services-Lefkas-greece.php

 

[Happydaze]

PM sent re. Stephen Seath at Nidri and his good service

 

[Chris_Robb]

+1. They'll also help you get to the airport at Preveza if you ask nicely. See their website at http://www.vlihoyc.com/yacht-services-Lefkas-greece.php

+3 Well worth getting to Know Ruairi Bradley if Vliho Yacht club. He has good engineers on hand and is VERY reliable. He got me out of trouble in Mesolonghi when my heat exchanger let go on its seals. Was there 2 hours after my call to him - job done.

It gives you huge comfort to know these guys, and know that they will climb mountains to help you if you are in trouble.

They will put you on a proper mooring, and check daily on the boat. When you come back, let them know and they will do their best to have the boat on the quay ready for you.

 

[Cspirit]

Many thanks everyone - really useful information.

 

[chrisgee]

+3 Well worth getting to Know Ruairi Bradley if Vliho Yacht club. He has good engineers on hand and is VERY reliable. He got me out of trouble in Mesolonghi when my heat exchanger let go on its seals. Was there 2 hours after my call to him - job done.

It gives you huge comfort to know these guys, and know that they will climb mountains to help you if you are in trouble.

They will put you on a proper mooring, and check daily on the boat. When you come back, let them know and they will do their best to have the boat on the quay ready for you.

Absolutely second that!

 

[lefkasman]

An interesting thing about Vliho bay is the small number of yachts wintering there this year compared with the winter of 2011 /12 at a guess I would say that there are a third less or possibly even fewer than that, the mooring presumably laid by The Yacht Club (Ruairi Bradley) or Horatio no longer seem to be there, and to the best of my knowledge permission to lay such moorings is unattainable.

The quay on the other hand is becoming a total eyesore with many yachts in various states of neglect taking up valuable berthing spaces, many of these yachts have not moved for years in fact its debatable if they would be capable of moving, so why are these wrecks permitted to stay there paying no harbour dues no berthing fees when the quay has so much commercial potential.

 

[jimbaerselman]

I think a lot of people were turned of by the cyclone that whipped through Vliho autumn before last. Forgetting, perhaps, that because a cyclone went through doesn't alter the probability of a cyclone occurring in any given location. In other words, very unlikely indeed. Unlike lightning, which often strikes and re-strikes our local chapel in Finikounda. Well, it is on a hilltop.

Nice wrecks, eh! In time I guess they'll line the whole of the north of the bay. Given this example, it's not surprising that Vliho is turning into a graveyard for boats.

 

[Davy_S]

The quay on the other hand is becoming a total eyesore with many yachts in various states of neglect taking up valuable berthing spaces, many of these yachts have not moved for years in fact its debatable if they would be capable of moving, so why are these wrecks permitted to stay there paying no harbour dues no berthing fees when the quay has so much commercial potential

The year before last I helped a friend to move a yacht, I always have my eye open for a 26/32 ft motorsailer going cheap, I was talking to a Greek and I asked him about a boat just lying there looking fed up, he was owed money for mooring etc, but he said that he could do nothing about it, he could not simply put a notice on it and sell it to recover his costs, (at least legally anyway) my Greek is a bit rubish really, so I never got to understand why the boats just sit there.

 

[jordanbasset]

The year before last I helped a friend to move a yacht, I always have my eye open for a 26/32 ft motorsailer going cheap, I was talking to a Greek and I asked him about a boat just lying there looking fed up, he was owed money for mooring etc, but he said that he could do nothing about it, he could not simply put a notice on it and sell it to recover his costs, (at least legally anyway) my Greek is a bit rubish really, so I never got to understand why the boats just sit there.

Yes and it's not just at Vliho, a lot of places in Greece, especially the 'unfinished' marinas seem to have them. Invariably they are in the best/most protected places and it is clear by looking at them they have not moved for a long time. If it is not the law it should be that the authorities have a right to move these boats subject to a period of notice. But I suppose the problem is they are worth very little and it may cost more to scrap them than just leave them there rotting. But it does mean that place will have fewer visitors spending money in the local economy.

 

[nimbusgb]

Perhaps a nice reflection on just how safe boats are in Greece. There is a small 20' or so yacht that has been tied up in Levkas for at least 2 seasons, battered and tattered but still there and afaics untouched from season to season.

Silly though because the mooring could be used by paying boats. I suppose to do with the cost of removal, storage or disposal.

I woder what Greek law says? There are some very viable refurb projects about!

 

[lefkasman]

I wonder what Greek law says? There are some very viable refurbish projects about!

Seems that as long as the boat is floating no one gives a monkeys, but once it sinks the owner is obliged to remove it, that is providing it can be proved that the wreck has an owner, take this fishing boat in the photo, it was The Day Dawn it had been moored in the middle of Vliho for many years, a few weeks ago it sank, hardly surprising given its condition, however the owner I presume had it salvaged and brought onto the shore near the quay, unfortunately a few days later it sank again probably because the pumps had been turned off, the owners were then obliged to hire a J C B to smash the wreck into small pieces which were then removed on the back of a ballast lorry.