Crews Letter #2008 05 Stavros
“Beware of Greeks bearing gifts.”
William Shakespeare
For most Americans, Zorba or Telly Savalis is the definitive
Greek. For a few, he may be Onassis. For us, the
John Wayne of
Through some wonderful turn of good fortune, we have been adopted into his family.
Stavros and Fred developed a friendship as they commiserated
over the pains and arrows of a new boat in
2001 Gouva,
Fred sends Stavros our Greek phone number as soon as we get one.
Mehales steps to the back of Perception and says, “Stavros says, ‘Turn on your phone.’”
The phone rings and Stavros says, “Mehales is our engineer. He will do anything you ask.” We ask and he does.
Stavros comes to
2002
We have dinner and exchange cruising plans. Sea captain
2004 Levkas
We cruise together to
Stavros and Chrissanthi meet us in
2005
Stavros
meets us in
We cruise together in the Ionian.
When a part for Perception is in
2006 Olympic
We meet in near
2007
2008
We ask for help getting reservations in an Athens Marina. He arranges everything.
We arrive at Zea
Marina,
The concert arrangements for
Hayden and Donna’s last concert are not known. Stavros picks us up at Zea
and we drive to the church where the choir have
assembled. They leave by metro (subway)
knowing the terminal where they will exit, concert location is still
unknown. Stavros drives us to the
station and we follow them, by car and by foot, through
During dinner, Stavros asked that we meet the Sunday after Donna and Hayden’s cruise for a day sail. “Of course!”
Sunday, the day sail became an overnight with Perdika on
There are many stories. There is one we want you to picture. Moni is a small island a mile west of Perdika. A small Stavros, maybe 8 or 10 years old, in an inner tube, swimming off for a day’s adventure on Moni. A mile at sea in an inner tube. Why not!
Our man in
Sails, Full and By,
Phyl and Fred
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