A week under sail from Lefkada
For travellers who want to sail rather than ferry-hop, on a skippered yacht out of Lefkada. Legs are short enough to swim twice a day and reach a harbour town by evening.
- Length
- 6 days · 5 nights
- Months
- May – early October
- Stops
- 4
The route on a map
1 · 1 night
Nydri, Lefkada
The charter base and a working harbour on Lefkada's sheltered east coast.
2 · 1 night
Vathy, Meganisi
A quiet island a short sail away, with three small villages and almost no day-trip traffic.
3 · 2 nights
Kioni, Ithaca
A pastel-painted horseshoe harbour, among the prettiest anchorages in the Ionian.
4 · 1 night
Fiskardo, Kefalonia
A short final sail across to a Venetian village harbour before returning the boat.
Day by day
Day 1
Arrive Lefkada, board
Sleep · Nydri
Fly into Preveza, forty minutes by road over the causeway, boarding by early afternoon for a shakedown sail.
Day 2
Sail to Meganisi
Sleep · Vathy, Meganisi
A two-hour crossing with a swim stop off Skorpios en route.
Day 3
Cross to Ithaca
Sleep · Kioni, Ithaca
A longer sailing day of roughly four hours, with a lunch anchorage at Frikes on the way.
Day 4
Ithaca ashore
Sleep · Kioni, Ithaca
A day off the water: a car up to Stavros and Vathy, or a walk through Kioni's terraced lanes.
Day 5
Sail to Kefalonia
Sleep · Fiskardo
Two hours across, arriving in time for lunch and an afternoon ashore.
Day 6
Return and departure
Departure
A morning sail back to Nydri, disembarking by midday, then the transfer to Preveza airport.