Leo Luongo
- Leo Luongo, began sailing in the 80s on the Soling of the Sironi family, and together with Gaetano and Pepe participates for the first time in the 100miglia sul Garda. Then the school of Caprera. After 470, transported, with Andreas Kant and Andreas Lowenhouse, beyond the Strait of Gibraltar to Tarifa with a mighty Beetle in ’85, there was competition with the best surfers, our drift was the only sailboat that sailed those seas full of wind. A long period begins, never interrupted, of Star class regattas based in Mandello del Lario. Many sailing cruises in Greece, Balearic Islands, Sardinia, Tyrrhenian Sea, Adriatic. Solo crossing of the Mediterranean from Palermo to the Pillars of Hercules and back with a 37-foot with stopovers in Algeria, Morocco and southern Spain.
- Skipper in Greece for several years
- Unlimited sailing and motor license up to 50 tons/tonnage
- Course of Aeronautical Meteorology
- Radiotelegraphist qualification
- President and founder of the Associazione Sportiva Velainsiemepuntoorg ASD
- Ambassador of the Naval League of Mandello del Lario
- Sailing course at Scuola CVC Caprera
- Scuba Padi
- AICS sailing instructor course
- AICS Team Building Instructor
- First Aid Medical Assistance on Merchant Ships
- Languages spoken: English, French, notions of Spanish
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Vasilis Lekkas
has been addicted to salt water and boats since he can remember.
He is a marine biologist with a masters on Coastal Zone Management and several years experience on fisheries biology.
He is a PADI diving instructor and First Aid Instructor and HSE commercial diver since 2003.
The last 15 years he works as a professional skipper on motor and sailing boats all around Greece and the Mediterranean.
The last 15 years he works as a professional skipper on motor and sailing boats all around Greece and the Mediterranean. From 2010 until 2018 based in Preveza, he run Eco cruising Dolphin watching cruises in Amvrakikos Wetlands National Park and the Ionian Islands. Then he worked as a Base Manager of Seafarer sailing holidays in Agia Efimia Kefalonia doing flotilas. Since 2020 he moved to Rethymno, Crete and works as a skipper for sailing and motor boat trips in Crete and the Ionian Islands.
His qualifications :
2015 Offshore Sailing Certificate, Ioannina Sailing Club
2012 Lifesaving and Firefighting School, Cycle A (Ministry of Mercantile Marine)
2011 VHF Handling Short-range Certificate (Ministry of Mercantile Marine)
2010 Powerboat handling Certificate (Preveza Port Police)
2004 BUDDY Inspiration Closed-Circuit Rebreather Diver Course,
2003 TDI Gas Blending and Mixing of Enriched Air Nitrox
2002 PADI Open Water Scuba Instructor,
2002 Emergency First Response (EFR) Trainer
2001 PADI Enriched Air Diver
2001 HSE Oxygen Administration Certificate
2001 HSE Power Boat Handling Certificate
2000 Professional Scuba Diver Certificate, Level 4, Health and Safety Executive (HSE)
Speaks Greek and English fluently.