Weather forecast

The weather is very difficult to predict. As a business we systematically monitor multiple sources to ensure we provide you with an enjoyable and above all safe cruise.

Transparency is a core value of ours, so we decided to create a simple and understandable system with which you too can be informed about the weather forecast for your cruise in real time.

Basic information before we start:
  • The wind forecast in Attica, even in the port of Porto Rafti, does not show the whole picture. It is important to know the wind intensity (Beauforts or BF) at all points along the route.
  • The weather is unpredictable and changes easily. Sometimes we may predict good weather a few days before your cruise and it changes in the following days leading to cancellation or vice versa.
  • If there have been days with a lot of Beaufort, there may be high sea waves in our tour. In simple words, we may find “yesterday’s wave” on our route. This is a reason to cancel a cruise even if we do not have a curfew that day. It is also a reason  we may encounter unpredictable higher waves on our route despite the forecast.
 
Below you can see one of our sources as well as a guide to understand what this means for your cruise.

What does this mean;

Above you see the Beaufort forecast (BF or ΒFT) for the next few days, it’s the colorful lines below at the chart.

The first row (Wind) shows the Beauforts while the second row (Wind gusts) refers to small moments along the route where a higher wind intensity is likely to be observed.

Use these 2 numbers and see below how this translates to your cruise, whether or not it will likely take place and what the experience will be like that day.

Curfews

Apart from our forecasts, the final decision on a ban comes from the National Weather Service. We have a prohibition from 6 Beaufort and above. The final decision for the morning cruise 10.00-14.00 is announced at 6.00 am while the decision for the afternoon cruise 16.00-20.00 is announced at 12.00 noon.

* We rarely wait for the last minute to make the decision whether we will cruise or not, this would be impractical. We can usually predict the weather fairly accurately the day before or even several days in advance.

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