Greek Seafarers

On Saturday, April 6th, 2024, Themis Angelopoulos is our guest on "Voice of Greece" and the show "Fair Winds and Following Seas - Saturday Shift". The renowned writer and actor talks about piracy on ships in the Red Sea and Indian Ocean region but also about his book entitled "Red Leaflet", which recounts...

Captain Giannis Kougioumtzoglou with his RORO ship "Sea Hellinis" travels from Sri Lanka to Dubai and talked to us a little about his trip and the anticipation of returning to his beloved family. Also, veteran cook Giannis Kakomanolis from Kasos, who first embarked with "ARCTUROS" by Kulukundis at...

Veteran captain Stelios Koumpias from Kastello, Chios, narrates in his own special way his important “great loves” at sea and shipping, that is, the ships he served and what he keeps from each one. With Chandris' M/V AUSTRALIA they rescued off Guadeloupe an American sailor and with the same ship mad...

Visual artist Giorgos Vouros speaks on the show, on the occasion of the solo painting exhibition entitled “Break the Silence, Save the Boats-Transubstantiation”, which takes place on April 8th at the Municipal Art Gallery of Piraeus. He take us to the world of traditional boats and describes how the...

The second lieutenant, Captain Dimitris Kamvitis travels us today in his own spontaneous and youthful way on “FAIR WINDS AND FOLLOWING SEAS” and the VOICE OF GREECE. Originally from Zagori, Pelion, Captain Dimitris embarked because he wants to “command big things”. When asked what the sea is to h...

The experienced veteran sailors of the Merchant Marine Panagiotis Melas and Alexandros Poulos, who are both poets, are the guests of Antonis Karagiannakis in “FAIR WINDS AND FOLLOWING SEAS - WEEKEND SHIFT” on VOICE OF GREECE. We are talking about the new poetry collection “Child of the need for s...

“FAIR WINDS AND FOLLOWING SEAS” and VOICE OF GREECE host the educator and coordinator of the Organizing Committee for the “200 years since the Kasos’ Holocaust ” Dinos Zacharis, who presents us the program of events taking place throughout Greece and New York. At the same time, he talks to us about ...

Captain - chief Dina Manta is the guest of “FAIR WINDS AND FOLLOWING SEAS” and VOICE OF GREECE. She tells us why she took the decision to follow the profession of seafarer, what the sea means to her and why she chose to go to seagoing ships and not to navigation. A young officer of the Greek Mer...

On Saturday, March 23rd, 2024, writer, historian, researcher and columnist Stefanos Milesis is invited to “Fair Winds and Following Seas – Saturday shift” with Antonis Karagiannakis. We travel back in time to hear and learn what was happening in pre-revolutionary Greece, in the maritime islands, in th...

The show “FAIR WINDS AND FOLLOWING SEAS" and VOICE OF GREECE, as well as the shipping world, celebrate World Poetry Day with sailors-poets. With people who wrote in poems their experiences, feelings, thoughts and images they lived in the sea and the ships, which they loved and served for many years. We l...

Dimitris, son of Savvas Perselis, tells us his story with barges and tugboats. He left his beloved island, Kassos, at the age of 16 with his father's consent to embark to Rotterdam on the cargo ship “Periolas” of the Lentakis company. Later he will reembark with “Antares” of the company Rethymnis & K...

Veteran captain Kostas G. talks to “FAIR WINDS AND FOLLOWING SEAS” and VOICE OF GREECE. He embarked because his father had some connection with the sea and also because his mind, when he went down to the port of Heraklion and saw the ships, travelled far away to another land, to other places. So he ...

The experienced captain Spyros Thireos from Amorgos takes us away in his own special way to the seas and the barges he lived on from 1968 to 2009. His naval career has two major chapters. The first is when he was young and went out into the oceans and into ocean shipping. The second chapter, when...