Fair Winds And Following Seas

Award-winning show 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. Produced and presented by Antonis Karagiannakis

PASOK Member of the European Parliament Sakis Arnaoutoglou takes the helm of the program “Fair Winds and Following Seas” on Voice of Greece. He speaks about the importance of Greece’s islands and islets, which define the borders of the European Union and have become especially significant in light of cu...

Award-winning show 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. Produced and presented by Antonis Karagiannakis

Award-winning show 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.

Award-winning show 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.

Award-winning show 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.

Award-winning show 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.

Award-winning show 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.

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

Antonis Mavrakakis, owner of Mayamar Marine Enterprises S.A., took the helm of Voice of Greece’s program “Fair Winds and Following Seas – Saturday Shift”, hosted by Antonis Karagiannakis, on Saturday, 14 February 2026. Originally from Sfakia in Chania, Crete, the guest shared with listeners how his...

Captain Vasilis Hazapis, from seafaring Andros, speaks on “Fair Winds and Following Seas” and Voice of Greece. His mother did not want him to go to sea. She pleaded with him right up to the moment he boarded the bus to leave his village, Vrachno in Andros. They were difficult times, and the sea was...

Captain Nikolas Politis, from Mesochori on the island of Karpathos, speaks on “Fair Winds and Following Seas.” “The sea may be beautiful,” he says, “but we must always anticipate it and be prepared for the dangers that may arise, whether from the weather or from the ship itself. Once, in the Bay o...

The experienced Ikarian radio operator, poet and writer Charalambos N. Chatzinakis is a guest of Antonis Karagiannakis on the program “Fair Winds and Following Seas”, on Voice of Greece. Charalambos Chatzinakis was born on 10 February, his name day, which also marks the anniversary of the death of ...

On this day, 10 February 1975, the poet of the sea — the poet of our sailors — Nikos Kavvadias passed away. “Fair Winds and Following Seas” and Voice of Greece, wishing to honor his memory and his work, presented a short tribute featuring songs based on his poetry and highlighting the most signifi...

The program "Fair Winds and Following Seas" marks World Greek Language Day with a special tribute episode featuring selected prose texts and poems dedicated to the sea, ships, and the lives of seafarers. Taking part in the program are actor and author Stelios Mainas, speaking about his book Arodou;...

“Fair Winds and Following Seas – Saturday Shift”, presented by Antonis Karagiannakis, welcomes Maria Efthymiou, Emeritus Professor of History at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, and Katerina Evangelakou, director of the educational documentary Greeks at Sea. If you want a sligh...