Running on Waves

Running on Waves is a luxury state-of-the-art three-mast barquentine. Onboard she offers luxurious accommodation and fine dining for 42 guests. However this is not a “floating hotel” at all! Running on Waves is a full-rigged ship, which runs up to 17 knots with favourable wind. The ship’s superbly efficient ratio of sailing surface to displacement 2 sw.m/t makes her one of the fastest sailboats of old and new times.
We are passionate about creating experience of sailing in its originality for adventurers and romantic fellows. If you are one of those – welcome aboard and let’s set sails! By the way, you will be able to set sails yourself together with sailors.

Running on waves is doing private charters and a few cruises a year.

CREW
Our experienced and dedicated international crew consists of 21 multilingual professionals of luxury hospitality and seamanship, who take full care of your perfect safety and enwrap you with impeccable service and personalized attention, sensitive to any shades of your mood, your personal tastes or your national and cultural proclivity. Suffice it to say, that our esteemed guests come from the USA in the West to China in the East and from Australia in the South to Russia in the North, as well as from Europe and Middle East.
SERVICE
From the moment you see her masts towering above the port, and throughout the voyage you are encompassed with our signature feel-at-home service “Running on Waves” is renowned for.
Our skilled crew will see to your every need and anticipate your every desire, from accommodating your gastronomic preferences to organizing instant tender services, shore excursions, massage treatment, water fun, yoga and other classes, all kinds of animation and entertainment or any other extras whatever they might be.
Let alone small pleasantries like wet napkins and refreshing drinks each time you return aboard, fresh flowers in the salon and in your cabin, to mention just a few.
ENTERTAINMENT
Water sports and fun: swimming, water slide, snorkeling, windsurfing, kayaking, wakeboard, water ski, deep-sea fishing, mini-banana, underwater scooters.
Maritime master-classes: bridge and engine tour, sailor’s knots tying, mast climbing, sail setting, celestial navigation, yacht running.
Yoga, Zumba-fitness, massage.
Photosafari.
Culinary master-classes and wine tasting, nargile, cigars.
Classes of Greek language and dances.
Serviette- and towel-folding lessons.
Land excursions.
Salon entertainment: Disco, karaoke, cinema, table games.
GOURMET
Our Guests have a taste for fine cuisine that is why our Chefs come to us from the most luxurious hotels and gorgeous yachts exclusively.
Our main culinary concept is Mediterranean cuisine with savoury hints of Greek tradition. We, however, ensure that any dietary or cultural preferences of yours are fully accommodated.
We serve meals four times a day, buffet or a la carte, made of finest ingredients, enriched with local delicacies and fresh seafood.
Start the day with a captivating taste of traditional Greek coffee, or order your other favourite from our rarity coffee machine.
Luscious fresh juices, smoothies and cocktails help you linger from an ample breakfast to a hearty lunch and via an afternoon tea to a decadent dinner accompanied with excellent wines from our vast collection and topped with mouth-watering desserts.
For even deeper indulgence (in for a penny – in for a pound) you can move to one of the open lounges at the decks and test our cigars or nargile.
As often as not, instead of having lunch in the Restaurant, our guests like to enjoy it in the Greek tavern at the open deck.
We will also be happy to book a romantic Terrace dinner for you - beyond doubt you will have one more memorable moment of the journey!
The Chef’s culinary master-classes and wine tasting also make part of genuine gastronomy experience on board.
Now if you intend to astonish your dear guests beyond words, let us create an absolutely special Indulgence menu limited with nothing but your imagination.
SHIP
RUNNING ON WAVES is a three-mast sailing vessel, rigging type – barquentine.
With the length (LOA) of 64 metres, she is one of the biggest sailing yachts in the world.
Classification by PRS: KM Sailing Passenger Ship 1 (+ 100 A5 by German Lloyd), implies unrestricted sailing region, except for glacial zones in wintertime.
According to SOLAS convention, the highest safety standards are maintained on board a vessel of this class, the same as would apply to a cruise liner carrying thousands of passengers.
“Running on Waves” operates under the flag of Malta.
The ship was conceived to combine maneuverability of a sport yacht, the highest standards of comfort and decor, and a shallow draft that allows calling at small marinas inaccessible even to many a big yacht, let alone cruise liners. The unmatched draft of 3.2 metres was made possible owing to a brilliant idea to use lead ballast.
The uniqueness of a number of technological solutions confirmed by the US Patent Department.
Every guest of ours enjoys 15,5 square metres of available open teakwood deck space, that is three times more than aboard most expensive cruise ships and would befit a most prestigious private mega-yacht.
The policy of the Company is to always keep the boat in a mint condition. That is why, despite her tender age, we do profound refitting every winter, so that in Spring she welcomes you in full glamour of perfection.
Sails are our main driving power, thus we boast unbeatably low level of fuel consumption, on average 75 l per hour only, which is about 10 times lower than on a motor boat of a comparable size.
Premium comfort notwithstanding, RUNNING ON WAVES is nothing close to a floating hotel or a museum on water, she is a supercharged windship, and with favourable wind can run at 16 – 17 knots under sail.
The ship’s superbly efficient ratio of sailing surface to displacement 2 sw.m/t makes her one of the fastest sailboats of old and new times.
To make sailing comfortable at any sea conditions, cutting-edge technologies were used, such as pitch-killing stabilizers, while sophisticatedly calculated mass distribution prevents the hull oscillation frequency from resonating with the frequency, which affects human vestibular system.
There are desalinators on board which account for the unlimited supply of fresh water.
Air–conditioning throughout the vessel makes you feel a sheikh even in hottest days of Mediterranean summer.
Our state-of-the-art hydraulic ramp at the stern of the vessel allows for a direct access to water for swimming and water sports.