Best Anchorages — Epirus Coast & Sivota

Sivota (Mourtos) is widely regarded as one of the most beautiful anchorages in all of Greece — three interconnected bays with water of an impossible turquoise colour, white sand bottom, and pine-covered hills tumbling to the shore.

Plataria is a small fishing village bay on the Epirus coast between Igoumenitsa and Sivota — a quieter alternative to the very busy Mourtos anchorage just 6nm south.

Perdika Bay is a quiet, sheltered anchorage on the Epirus coast south of Sivota — rarely visited by charter yachts and offering the kind of solitude that is increasingly hard to find on the Greek coast in summer.

Parga is one of the most dramatically beautiful towns on the Greek coast — a medieval castle perched on a rocky headland directly above the anchorage, with pastel-coloured houses tumbling down to the waterfront and olive-silvered hills behind.

Lichnos Beach is a beautiful sandy bay 2nm south of Parga town — a better-sheltered and less crowded alternative to the main Parga anchorage.

Ammoudia is one of the most unusual and atmospheric anchorages on the Epirus coast — the mouth of the Acheron River, the mythological 'river of the underworld' that ancient Greeks believed the souls of the dead crossed into Hades.

Preveza is a charming small town at the entrance to the Ambracian Gulf — historically famous as the site of the Battle of Actium (31 BC) where Augustus Caesar decisively defeated Mark Antony and Cleopatra, founding the Roman Empire.

The anchorage near Nikopolis on the Actium (W) side of the Preveza Strait entrance to the Ambracian Gulf is one of the most historically significant sailing locations in the Mediterranean.

Igoumenitsa is the main ferry port on the Epirus coast — the gateway to and from Italy (Ancona, Brindisi, Bari) and the first Greek port of entry for yachts arriving from the west.

The Filiates Channel Bay at the Kalamas River approach is one of the most remote and least-visited anchorages on the Epirus coast — a sheltered, deep bay with excellent holding mud and sand offering refuge from the Maestro NW wind in a dramatic coastal setting.