Fair Winds And Following Seas

Grigoris Rentis, director of the documentary film “Dogwatch”, is the guest on this episode of 'Saturday Shift', Saturday's special edition of the show ''Fair Winds and Following Seas'' with Antonis Karagiannakis. “Dogwatch”, his debut feature film, has made an excellent run at international festiva...

Today we travel to Chios to meet Lampros Kalimanas who has served at seas for 30 years. He started as a trainee sailor and then a sailor, a carpenter and finally a boatswain; he has many memories, thoughts, stories, as well as feelings from his life on the ships. He shares some of these on our today's...

Captain Nikos Konoupakis from Kalamaria, Thessaloniki, tells us about the sea, the Vardaris wind that blows in the area, his favorite city, Thessaloniki, how he was found at sea and other beautiful nautical stories.

In this episode we talk about the importance and history of Voice of Greece with its director Gianna Triantafylli.Next up is Thanasis Zisimopoulos, founder and director of CosmosFm NY, Greek Diaspora Radio in New York.Also, the current director of Cosmos FM, Stelios Taketzis talks to us about the current...

The IMO Secretary-General Mr. Arsenio Dominguez was a guest at the 14th Capital Link shipping conference held in Athens and spoke to Antonis Karagiannakis on Fair Winds and Following Seas. Mr. Dominguez, among others, stressed that "I congratulate the Greek Merchant Marine for its contribution to the...

The President of the Union of Greek Shipowners, Mrs. Melina Travlos, attended the 14th Capital Link shipping conference in Athens and spoke at Antonis Karagiannakis' "Fair Winds and Following Seas".  Among other things, Mrs. Travlou stressed that "better days are coming for the Greek Merchant Marine. ...

Visual artist Sofia Datseri from Ierapetra, Crete, is our guest on this episode of ''Saturday Shift''/ “I am inspired by the sea, my homeland and Cretan tradition. I had nothing to do with painting. I studied History-Archaeology at Ioannina University and then I learnt wood carving, loom and at t...

The show is dedicated to Greek seafarers, featuring stories of their day-to-day lives, live testimonies, and connections with Greek ocean liners sailing across the world’s oceans.

Mr. Nikos Bornozis, President of CAPITAL LINK talked to Antonis Karagiannakis on FAIR WINDS AND FOLLOWING SEAS about the major shipping conference entitled "Sailing into the high seas", which is being organized by his company for the 14th year on Thursday, 02.08.2024 in Athens.

The shipbuilder and founter - General Manager of Alpha-Marine, Mr. Nikos Dafnias, talks to “FAIR WINDS AND FOLLOWING SEAS” about shipbuilding in Greece, the shipyards today in our country, his company and of course reference was made to “EUGENIOS EUGENIDES” sailing ship, about which he speaks with wa...

Captain Nikos Kounoupakis from a village in Kilkis, decided from a young age to follow the sea and work on the boats. So in 1973 he found himself at the Merchant Marine Academy of Aspropyrgos and the following year he became the sophomores leader and the Academy’s top student thanks to his good grades. Immediately a...

At the age of 15, his father gave his consent to embark from Agrinio. He went to join his brother who had left a little earlier. He still hasn't regretted it.The sea gave him a lot, he saw the world, people and different cultures - and most importantly, it got got him out of his economic impasse. He...

On Saturday (02.03.2024), “Fair Winds and Following Seas” hosted Emeritus Professor of the Department of History and Archaeology at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, K. Ioannis Chasiotis. He told us about his research and history, where he has spent his whole life teaching young people, wri...