Sailing & yachting
The Aegean, under sail
Epicure Greece designs and runs skippered sailing holidays across the Greek islands: routes traced by ancient mariners, coves you can only reach by boat, and a chartered vessel matched to the way your group travels.
The short answer
An odyssey of your own
A skippered sailing holiday in Greece holds everything a memorable trip is made of: adventure, history, activities in turquoise water, cuisine worth the crossing alone, or simply the slow pleasure of island life taken in from the deck of a yacht. Epicure Greece has the knowledge, the connections and the experience to compose that odyssey around you, so your time on the water is exclusive, authentic and never wasted.
Not sure where on the Aegean you would like to sail? Browse the destinations to get inspired, then ask us anything.
What the water gives you
Routes, variety, cuisine
-
Routes
Retrace the routes forged by ancient Greek mariners, past ancient theatres, windmills, whitewashed houses, underwater ruins and the sea caves where marauding pirates once hid their treasure. Drop anchor in coves and beaches that can only be reached by boat, and sail straight into the world of Homer’s epic.
-
Variety
Greece is the ultimate playground for a week on the water in Europe. Its 227 inhabited islands each keep their own customs, their own specialties and their own richly shaped terrain: volcanoes and grottos, pine-covered hills and olive groves, sandy bays and rugged mountains.
-
Cuisine
Lazy mornings over Greek coffee. Lunches of freshly caught seafood grilled over charcoal on a secluded beach. Olives and wine tasted in the sun-soaked vineyards that grew them, and evenings sampling the local delicacies in vibrant waterfront tavernas.
Three examples, not the list
Three ways to sail
- Premium
Virtuoso
The premium escape. Virtuoso carries groups into the Aegean with a distinct atmosphere of its own, the kind of vessel where the journey itself becomes the story. For group outings that want Greek sailing at its best, this is the natural first choice, and the memories linger well beyond the trip.
- Luxury
Running on Waves
Few travellers have sailed anything like her. Running on Waves is unique in every aspect, a vessel that turns a group getaway into the epitome of Greek sailing luxury. The voyage stays with you long after the last harbour.
- Premium luxury
Alteya
The gem that stands apart. Alteya brings unmatched elegance and sophistication to the water, an extraordinary voyage that transcends the ordinary. For the group that wants the finest week the Aegean can offer, the search ends here.
These three show the range, they are not the whole list. If you have a particular boat in mind, tell us and we will go and get her. Every charter is skippered, and every week is planned by the same team that runs your journey ashore.
Our sailing partner
Sample routes
Three shapes a week can take
Sketches, not schedules. Every charter is drawn fresh to the brief: the season, the party and the pace decide the days.
-
The classic Cyclades
Mykonos Paros Naxos Ios Santorini
Contemporary glamour to open, secrets under marble and the island of Dionysus in the middle, and the caldera of our home island to close. The postcard week, sailed past its postcards.
-
The medieval Dodecanese
From the island of knights to a harbour that reads colourful, cultural and cinematic, then chronicles of gods, silk and wine, ending on Greece's holy island. History, with a deck between chapters.
-
The green Ionian
The Venetian garden of the Ionian first, then three islands and one exhale at Paxos, the homecoming island after it, and white cliffs over ultramarine water to close.
The process
How a week under sail comes together
-
Tell us about the week you have in mind
Dates, party and occasion, and how you like your days: swimming and coves, history ashore, long lunches, or all three. A first conversation is enough to start.
-
The route and the vessel
We sketch a route through the islands and match it with the right way to sail it: Virtuoso, Running on Waves or Alteya, from premium to premium luxury.
-
The week takes shape
Anchorages, tables ashore and the pace of each day are refined with you until the plan reads like your week, not a brochure itinerary.
-
You step aboard
Your holiday is skippered, so the sailing is handled. Plans flex with the wind, and Epicure stays on call from the first harbour to the last.
Sailing for teams
One boat, one table, one crew of colleagues
A charter is one of the strongest settings a team can share: no meeting rooms, no agenda slides, just a coastline to explore together. We fold sailing days into the incentive trips, offsites and retreats we run for corporate groups.
Set sail
The Aegean is waiting
Tell us when you want to sail, how many of you there are and the kind of week you have in mind. We will come back with a route, the boat that fits it, and the weeks that are genuinely worth being out there.