{"id":5786,"date":"2022-06-16T10:50:32","date_gmt":"2022-06-16T08:50:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.navily.com\/en\/?p=5786"},"modified":"2022-12-05T11:23:44","modified_gmt":"2022-12-05T10:23:44","slug":"peace-seekers-anchorages-the-ionian-islands-with-klazien","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.navily.com\/en\/blog\/peace-seekers-anchorages-the-ionian-islands-with-klazien\/","title":{"rendered":"Peace seekers anchorages in the Ionian Islands with Klazien"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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In this web series, we talk about the journeys of our top contributors! While some spent their life on a boat, others discovered this passion later in life. With their contributions, they play a key role in making Navily what it is today : a trustworthy cruising guide, made for and by boaters, with a growing influence in Europe and in the world.

Today, we meet Klazien, who has been sailing in the Ionian Islands for 22 years. She fell in love with this region during numerous family cruises. In this article, she will share with us several anchorages and marinas that she particularly appreciates for their peacefulness, even in the high season\u2026<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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My name is Klazien. I was born in the Netherlands, where I learned to sail on the Friesian lakes in the north. As a student in biology, I went to Switzerland because I love the mountains. But life can be strange and I met Andreas, because he was looking for a sail mate on a Dart 18 catamaran to sail the Swiss championships. We became a couple, won the Swiss annual championship, got married, became two daughters and kept on sailing.\u00a0

Many more races on our Dart followed up to European championships and later we bought a Kelt 8 on the lake of Neuchatel. With the children we started to sail in Greece when they were 10 and 12 years old. As they liked it so much it became our annual holiday to sail in Greece, chartering mostly private 38-40 feet yachts. After so many years in Greece we have been on at least 110 islands (also counting those without inhabitants). Some years we abandoned Greece and sailed in Thailand, Seychelles and Cuba.\u00a0
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Why do you love sailing in the Ionian Islands?<\/h3>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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In the year 2000, at the end of September, we started our first sail trip with the children in the Ionian sea in Greece, because it was defined as a pleasant, not so crowded and easy sailing area with moderate winds. In those first 2 weeks around the Ionian islands, we found beautiful cosy harbours and coves, with friendly people and good typical Greek restaurants. The weather was warm, but not hot and the winds were perfect for sailing with children. Some years later in the summer, we sailed again in the Ionian Sea. Again, we were welcomed with good winds and many nice spots to anchor. In 2011 we were once more in the Ionian area to find that the charter activities had increased, making it sometimes harder to find a place in a harbour, but as we already knew the area, we were still able to find secluded coves, not frequently visited by other charter boats.\u00a0

In July 2021 coming from Italy, we arrived for the first time with our own sail yacht called \u201cR\u00fbzje Wyn\u201d (whooshing wind) in the middle of the sailing peak season. We were surprised by the enormous increase in the number of charter companies located in Corfu and Lefkada. Trying to avoid crowded places and with the help of the navily app, we however were able to find some extraordinary secluded places and again enjoyed the Greek hospitality, great food and sometimes even too strong winds\u2026<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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The anchorage selection I present here, are chosen because they are not the first destinations typical charter boats are going. In some of them there are no restaurants (which is why charterers do not like them too much), which we personally like the most. In some places one can hike, which we like as a possibility to move our muscles in an alternative way or undertake some other activities (see below). Also some of the spots are on the mainland, they may not look attractive at first sight, because they are not on islands, but we found them very fetching and good alternatives if one wants to avoid crowded places.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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