The Aegean around Kos is one of the clearest seas in the Mediterranean — visibility past 30 metres in places. That clarity is why sailors keep coming back, and why the anchorages empty of engine noise feel almost unreal.

Nisyros, just south of Kos, is a whole island sitting inside a volcanic caldera — you can walk down into the crater and smell the sulphur. Anchor off the coast, take the tender in, and you have one of the strangest, most memorable afternoons of the whole week.

The meltemi is the Aegean’s summer wind, and locals plan their whole day around it: it builds through the afternoon and dies at sunset. Sail in the morning, swim at noon, and let the wind carry you home — plan your hops around it and you look like a genius.

A catamaran does not heel, does not roll and does not rush. Your morning coffee stays in the cup, your guests stay in a good mood, and the skipper gets to look like the calmest person in the Aegean.

Kos is the birthplace of Hippocrates, the father of medicine, and the plane tree where he is said to have taught still stands in the town centre. Sail out of Kos Port in the morning and you are leaving one of the oldest healing sites in the world behind you.

Symi, north of Rhodes, is famous for its sponge divers and its pastel-coloured harbour — one of the most photographed in Greece. Arrive by yacht in the late afternoon and you get the harbour lights without the day-tripper crowds.

Every hour your solar panels run the boat is an hour the generator stays silent — and in a quiet Aegean bay, silence is the real luxury. Your guests will notice it long before they notice the boat’s length.