Captain: Thanos Kourtelis
Coming from a family of sailors, he was growing up sailing with his Dad’s boat and doing his first sailing steps with optimists and lasers. When he was only 18 years old, he started working as a skipper for different yachting companies having achieved his sailing license. But only sailing was not enough for him. He studied parallel engineering in order to deepen his understanding of engines, maintenance, and yachts in general. Throughout the years as skipper, he has sailed the Mediterranean extensively, has crossed the Atlantic, and knows the Aegean Sea like the back of his hand. He is responsible, hard-working, and with his good-natured attitude, he wins his guests the moment they step onboard. He is very capable as a skipper, mechanic and has the whole package needed in order to make feel everyone safe. In his spare time, he is building wooden ship models and just about anything from scratch. He loves to have children on board and does everything to make them happy! He speaks Greek and English.Chef: Konstantinos TsakiridisKonstantinos was born in 1992 in Greece. In 2018, after completing his degree in Applied Mathematics and Statistics, he went on to study the Culinary Arts at Omiros College. Along with his classical studies, he has attended seminars presented by Akis Petretzikis, Giannis Margaris, Alexandros Tsiotinis, and Nikolaos Oikonomou. For many years, he worked in restaurants and bistro cafes throughout Greece. With his love of the sea and desire to cook for small, intimate groups, he joined the yachting world.Konstantinos specializes in Greek traditional, Mediterranean, Middle Eastern, and Asian cuisines. He loves creating dishes using authentic and fused cuisines that will excite guests and bring everyone together to enjoy fabulous foods and company. He is experienced in meeting special dietary needs and requests- such as gluten-free, vegetarian, vegan, low-calorie, low-carb, and dairy-free meals. Konstantinos loves being on the water and working with his crew to offer the highest quality charter to guests on World’s End. When he is not in the kitchen (or galley) preparing incredible delicacies, Konstantinos enjoys wood carving, interior design, photography, video editing, gardening, and reading.Languages: Greek (native); English (fluent)Deckhand / Stewardess: Anna Fenning – Kazantzidi
Anna, born in 1999, is from Jena, Germany. She attended George Watsons College in Edinburgh, Scotland, and went on to graduate with Honours in Product Design from Edinburgh Napier University. During this time, her studies included a specialized semester in Design Engineering at Erasmus in Zwolle, Netherlands. From a young age, she sailed Optimist and Laser’s in Kavala, Greece. Over the years, she has been building her sailing knowledge and experience through RYA with the dream of becoming a captain. She has taken courses at the Chichester Yacht Club and Cobnor Sailing in England and N.O.K. in Kavala, Greece.
Anna is energetic and eager to show her guests the beauty of sailing the gorgeous Greek waters. With her experience, she is perfect to create the ideal charter. Along with her love of sailing, she enjoys cooking, illustration and design, swimming, plant care, camping, and learning languages – currently, she is practicing Turkish, French, and Dutch. Plus, over the past 2 years, she has been patenting and producing her original bachelors design- a sailing jacket with life saving features!
Languages: English, German, Greek (all 3 native languages)