Ahoy there!

I am Captain Mario, the owner of Barbarossa Sailing and I started my contact with the sea before I was even born! As a descendant of a sailors’ family originating from Skopelos, a small beautiful island of the Sporades complex, my fate was predetermined, I could become nothing but a sailor… Following the path of my great grandfather who was a fisherman, of my grandfather who was a captain on cargo ships as well as of my father and uncles who worked as engineers on tanker ships, I started my sailing steps at the age of 8 years old by sailing small “optimist” boats at the sailing club of the island.

Since those times I have never left the sea. As I was growing older, I worked for many years as a skipper on sailing boats travelling all over the greek islands feeling proud to present my country to the people visiting us and giving them reasons to rembember their time spent here and return. When the time arrived in 1999 I progressed to starting my own business and I acquired my first sailing boat. All these years I never got tired of sailing and giving my guests the best of myself. In 2014 I moved my business in Santorini, one of the most beautiful and unique islands of the world!

Myself and my crews would be honoured and pleased to have you on board and transmit to you our knowledge and experience of this marvellous place we really love.