Fair Winds And Following Seas

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 ...

Businessman Giannis Zoulis who comes from Kasos and lives, works and operates in Baltimore, USA, talks on “Fair Winds and Following Seas” about the collision-accident that occurred on the bridge “Francis Scott Key" of the American metropolis as the M/V “Dali” carrying a container after a total blackout ...

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...

Captain Giannis Kougioumtzoglou, who by the way has a cold, describes in his own special way how in Dubai they encountered rain and in Saudi Arabia a sandstorm. His ship, the RO RO “Sea Hellinis” is covered with desert sand, as is the port of Jalab where they are waiting to unload. Once they depart for...

Veteran sailor Captain Kostas Gaitas tells us about all about his initial decision back then to sail. His first barque was with the vehicles carrier “MYKINES” of the EUGENIDES lines, in which he did all his barques for many years. He talks about the situation that prevailed in Greek merchant shi...