July 2025 · The meeting
On 09.07.25 a signature — years of waiting behind. Selene becomes mine: the project begins. Here the full documentation: starting with the Bill of Sale. First gallery showing Selene as she was, before any intervention.
Three and a half months of work, ~950 hours: a Beneteau First 34.5 brought back to efficiency and beauty. Paint, stainless steel, systems – the essentials, done properly.
The full historical gallery is available in the section below.
Valentina introduces the boat – 57 seconds that capture the yard fit-out.
First sail: gentle breeze, sea-trial route and a brief bio of Selene.
From 9 July 2025, the day of purchase, to the launch on 11 October — and beyond.
Transparent chronology of the restoration and sea trials of Selene (Beneteau First 34.5).On 09.07.25 a signature — years of waiting behind. Selene becomes mine: the project begins. Here the full documentation: starting with the Bill of Sale. First gallery showing Selene as she was, before any intervention.
A gallery that captures Selene’s slow transformation: paintwork, steel, aluminium, systems. The essentials — done properly.
Final touch-ups and final checks on Selene: paintwork, steelwork, systems. The necessary — done well, as always.
9 July 2025 · Lefkada — Purchase of Selene. From 10.07 the refitting officially begins: three and a half months of work condensed into roughly 100 chronological images.
11 October 2025 · Lefkada — Launch day. Light wind, crew: Tiziano. Not an arrival — the true departure.
13–17 October 2025 · Sea trials — Four days between Nidri, Meganisi and Fiscardo: a night of heavy rain at anchor, a phone dead in the morning, the pointless attempt to find a mobile shop in Fiscardo, and the return to Nidri to put order back into tools and thoughts. A condensed field test: navigation, systems, and decisions. Details in the logbook.
21 October 2025 · En route to Athens — Dawn departure, landbound again. Wind, work and sea remain in the diary.
Eight moments captured in the heart of Kypseli. A sky full of tension, rooftops slowly lighting up, and the center of Athens awakening while the mind already travels toward Lefkada.
After six years of city life, these images are the final page on land before the definitive return to the islands. A bridge between concrete and sea.
From this Athenian rooftop, the journey returns to Lefkada and begins again at sea: For a full day of sailing through the Prince’s Islands.
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