From: cph@moggy.inmos.co.uk (Chris Harrop)
Subject: Re: Windsurfing in the Greek Islands??
Organization: INMOS Limited, Bristol, UK
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1992 08:33:17 GMT

The BEST place to go is Vassiliki in Lefkas (in my humble opinion!).

Take a plane to Prevesa airport (west mainland Greece) and it's a one
hour taxi ride (25 pounds) to Vassiliki.

The wind is best during the Summer months. A force four-seven picks up
around 2pm and blows till 8pm at least 75% of the time!!
In my two weeks starting on August 26th, I only had one day when the wind blow
less than force 5 for less than one hour!

There are two main hire centres on the beach - Club VAS and a falcon centre.
The Club Vas centre has new TIGA boards and a few mistral, F2 and fanatic
slolom/wave boards. The tigas are around 90 pounds per week. Other boards
cost an extra 20 pounds for the week and must be pre-booked.

Rigs are all new Tiga Power-Slaloms, Wave-somethings and Neil Pryde 
RAF CAM dynamics. They have around 20 of each size from 5.5 to 3.5.
In the peak season the rigs get used up fairly quick!

Taking your own gear is easy to do and you can store it in the Club Vas
lockups for 20 pounds a week (+ you get rescue cover)

The sailing is in a huge bay - its very flat most of the time.
The chop can get fairly big - there were guys doing forward loops on 
it in August this year!

The 90 pounds board hire with club Vas includes tuition to level 5
using video cameras on mored boats. Its excellent! I learnt to one hand
carve gype with their help. (They were actually trying to teach me to 
carve gype better - doing it with one hand trailing in the water forces
you to concentrate on carving the board and not on the rig position
which only gets in the way!)

The place is excellent for learners to. The wind is very light in the 
morning. Club Vas have loads of larger baords and beginners rigs.

Accomodation is plentiful - at around 6-12 pounds per night for a room.
Food is typical greek. Less than 8 pounds per head. If you don't like
heads then the salads are very good too!

Night-life centres around the bars. A couple of discos will keep you 
shaking your weary legs (and anything else) till after 4pm.


Other good places (so I'm told) are the siland of Ithica (there's a 
Tiga test centre there), Western Crete, Bitez in Turkey (not really 
Greece I know, but it's close!). All these places are high wind 
(force 4+) venues, and are best during the hot summer months.

Hope this is useful.


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