Team News
12:00, Tuesday 29th October 2024, Alimos Marina N.C.Kalamaki, Greece. Team OPTIMUM-Samos Steamship returned to action as planned and competed last Weekend in Hydra Race organized by Yacht Club Greece. The 36-mile course from Faliro Bay-Athens to the picturesque island of Hydra and back, is a well-attended race that marks the end of the season for most of the offshore sailing...
12:00, Thursday 17th October 2024, Alimos Marina N.C.Kalamaki, Greece. Following our retirement in Aegean 600 due to a technical issue, Team OPTIMUM-Samos Steamship members returned back in action last weekend on board our thoroughbred race yacht OPTIMUM S. The plan is to complete a few training sessions to smooth out our crew work and check all systems for Hydra Race...
12:00, Thursday 10th October 2024, Alimos Marina N.C.Kalamaki, Greece. The Double Handed National Cup proved tough, long and tiring. The twenty entries from various parts of Greece covered the 138-mile race, facing all sort of conditions continuously day and night. SEANATK Yacht Club, organized the yearly event for 5th time in a row, very successfully, and emerges as the Greek Club...
12:00, Tuesday 1st October 2024, Alimos Marina N.C.Kalamaki, Greece. Since 2022, when the two O.S.A. Dehler 30ods arrived in Greece, OPTIMUM Sailing Academy has been involved in the emerging Greek double handed scene as our little rockets are extremely suitable for this sailing discipline. With the support of LALIZAS and PERFORMANCE TECHNOLOGIES, OPTIMUM 4 will participates for third consecutive...
12:00, Monday 16th September 2024, Alimos Marina N.C.Kalamaki, Greece. Another successful weekend back to back was registered for OPTIMUM Sailing Academy two Dehler 30s in Agistri Race, a 21-mile race from Faliro to the picturesque island Agistri in the Saronic Gulf on Saturday and back on Sunday. OPTIMUM 4 managed to win both legs of...
12:00, Tuesday 11th September 2024, Alimos Marina N.C.Kalamaki, Greece. Retiring due to a technical issue in the Aegean 600 and the late arrival of spare parts grounded Team OPTIMUM for the remaining of July and August. Come September and the Team raced the OPTIMUM Sailing Academy two Dehler 30s in Korfos Race posting podium results....
12:00, Tuesday 16th July 2024, Alimos Marina N.C.Kalamaki, Greece. Our long and well prepared entry in the 4th edition of the Aegean 600 was short lived. Team OPTIMUM-Samos Steamship had to retire from the race only two and half hours after the start due to a technical issue. OPTIMUM S was on a fast downwind ride...
12:00, Saturday 6th of July 2024, Olympic Marine, Greece. Last year, a month before the start of the Aegean 600 we have written on our site here: “The 3rd edition of the Aegean 600, with a start on Sunday July 9th this year under the Poseidon Temple in Cape Sounio, not only boasts a record...
20:00, Monday 25th March 2024, Alimos, Greece. The 36-mile race to picturesque Hydra Island and back, over the Greek Revolution Day of 25th March, organized by H.O.R.C, marks the start of the offshore racing season in Greece. Team OPTIMUM-Samos Steamship started their 31st season and 4th decade with a convincing overall victory and Class 1...
20:00, Wednesday 21st February 2024, Alimos, Greece. In 2023 we celebrated the 30th Team OPTIMUM season full of uninterrupted competitive achievements. In 2024, during the annual Pita Ceremony, no less than 29 team members gathered to celebrate the first year of the fourth Team OPTIMUM decade. Not many sailing teams around the world have made...