I had one more time the opportunity to see Faneromeni, owned by my friend Nikos Riginos , one of the excellent restoration jobs of traditional Greek wooden craft.
The S/Y Faneromeni is a 15 meter traditional wooden Greek caique of the style known as Perama. Perama caiques were sailing vessels used for transporting cargo between the Greek islands and/or the mainland.
Faneromeni was built in the island of Skiathos in 1945 where she started her life under sails with a small auxiliary engine and a crew of six transporting potatoes and other vegetables between the city of Volos and Skiathos. In her long life she changed many hands and was based in several islands until in the late 1980's when she was used as a tourist boat rated for 60 passengers in the island of Poros. By that time she had been completely altered: she had lost her masts, had acquired a tall pilot house superstructure and was propelled by a large 120 hp 6 cylinder Kelvin Diesel engine... read more >>
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