Welcome to the new and updated website of Hellenic Professional Yacht Owners Association (H.P.Y.O.A.)

This new design is intended to assist our Members to promote their Yachts and to find useful information about laws and legislation that govern Yachting in Greece.

Our Visitors have access to our Member's profiles and to the Yachts of their ownership.


The Hellenic Professional Yacht Owners Association (HPYOA), widely known as EPEST, is a non-profitable institution. Its Members are Greek owners of more than 4.000 professional yachts (manned or Bare-Boat), governed by the Greek law 4296/2022.

EPEST was established in 1974 with aim to study and plan the nautical tourism, the promotion of economic and professional interests of its members, the development of a spirit of cooperation, assistance and brotherhood between them as well as of every other actinity which would lead to the improvement of terms and conditions for the employment of their yachts, and to the freedom and safety of navigation. 

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H.P.Y.O.A.

Hellenic Professional Yacht Owners Association help its Members to promote their Yachts and services.

All registered Members can add/update Yachts of their ownership, can edit their personal information and have access to the library of different laws and legislations that govern sea tourism in Greece.

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Yachting in Greece

Greek Seas and coasts with the numerous advantages they have to offer, turned Yachting to be a very popular activity for both Greeks and foreign visitors.

A trip on the calm Greek waters, on your own or a chartered yacht, offers you the possibility to sail among extremely beautiful clusters of islands, to anchor in naturally protected bays of rare beauty, to visit inaccessible beaches and to swim with safety in exceptionally clear and transparent waters.

It is useful to divide the Greek seas into 4 zones running from North to South, and thus examine the course of the summer winds.

Winds vary greatly from zone to zone, (except when the meltemia winds are blowing, which are very strong, and result in large areas overlapping and having the same features).

Nowadays there are 19 marinas with 6,661 docking places in Greece, offering high quality services. Quite a few of these marinas have been awarded by the European Blue Flag programme. New modern marinas, hotel ports and moorings for the safe docking of boats already operate or are in the process of starting their operation, in order to meet the needs of tourists coming to Greece by sea in the most satisfactory way and under the safest conditions.