The Ship's Log

The following video was sent to us by Captain Davli Tuning. He writes to us: ”I am a sailor, Captain in rank, in active duty since 2003. I remember the times when all Greeks we would gather on the bridge to listen to you.” The video was taken on January 23rd, 2024 at 18:00 at sea heading from the Atlantic to the south. Fair Winds and Following Seas, Captain!

Captain Kostas Sokos has written poems about ships, life, and the sea.The following poem , ''Life's Long Journey'', is one of them. We would like to thank him for sharing it with Voice of Greece.Fair Winds and Following Seas, captan! ΤΟ ΤΑΞΙΔΙ ΤΗΣ ΖΩΗΣ (LIFE'S LONG JOURNEY) Είν΄ η ζωή ένα ταξίδι μ...

"Let man know that man can!" The Atlantis expedition, "Expedición Atlantis", is the name given to the crossing of the Atlantic Ocean carried out by five Argentines in 1984, departing from the port of Tenerife in the Canary Islands and arriving 52 days later in La Guaira in Venezuela on a precarious ...

Manolis Lykakis from Zakros, Sitia, a veteran radio operator of the merchant navy and a friend of Voice of Greece, sent us the following poem, from his latest poetry collection. Ταξίδια ωκεάνια του Μανώλη Λυκάκη Μόλα και βαρεθήκαμε τόσο καιρό στο πόρτο,πάει κι ο κάβος ο πρυμνιός, γλίστ...

The following video was sent to the Voice of Greece by Captain Giannis Kougioumtzoglou. It was taken on M/V MONTECRISTO in January 2021 in the North Aegean, with south winds at 8 Beaufort. The 170.00 ton ship was carrying iron ore and was coming from the port of Yuzny in Ukraine. His destination was China’s Qingdao via the Suez Canal.

The Ship's Log | 12 January 2024 Stop! This was not a dream, so after I slept early I woke up at 3am, to pass the time I turned on the TV on a channel to rest my mind which has only commercial-free works usually classics, I came across a German language color play called LOLA. It had English...

In January 2024, Voice of Greece officially launches The Ship's Log, in collaboration with VoG's show ”Fair Winds and Following Seas” with Antonis Karagiannakis. A new column dedicated to all seafarers which means to to serve as a 'safe harbor', featuring thoughts, poems, dre...