The Sporades are one of the last refuges of the Mediterranean monk seal — one of the rarest marine mammals on earth, with only a few hundred left. The Marine Park of Alonissos was created to protect them, which is why the quietest bays here have stayed genuinely quiet.

Skopelos is the greenest island in the Aegean — pine forest runs right down to the water, and the island shot to fame as the backdrop for a certain ABBA musical. You do not visit it, you anchor under the pines, swim off the transom and watch the sun drop behind the hills. That is the whole itinerary.

The meltemi arrives almost like clockwork in the Aegean summer — a steady afternoon wind that gives you four hours of perfect sailing, then dies at sunset. Plan your hops around it and you look like a genius. The locals have been doing it for centuries.

A catamaran this size 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 man in the Aegean.

Neo Klima means “New Climate” in Greek — and the name is not just poetry. This stretch of Skopelos has its own sheltered microclimate: calmer water, softer wind and long, sunlit evenings when the rest of the Aegean is already choppy.