Fair Winds And Following Seas

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...

In May 1973, the destroyer “Velos” of the Greek Navy withdrew from the NATO exercise in which it participated off the coast of Sardinia and took refuge in Fiumicino, Italy, with the aim of mobilizing the Greek fleet to overthrow the Dictatorship of the Colonels and to make known to the whole world the...

Marina Leonidopoulou and Irini Notia speak on FAIR WINDS AND FOLLOWING SEAS. The subject is women and the sea, shipping, sailing and of course the presence of women on ships and shipping, as tomorrow, Thursday, March 8th, is International Women's Day and I don't have a show on Fridays...

Experienced captain Nikos Kyrtatas from Andros is the guest on “FAIR WINDS AND FOLLOWING SEAS”. He first embarked in 1965 on the 22,000-ton cargo ship “Messinia” of the Goulandris company. He will stay 33 months on board in order to be able to pass the exams for the diploma of Second Lieutenant. So he e...