{"id":513,"date":"2021-12-21T13:20:31","date_gmt":"2021-12-21T10:20:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.prassinosboattours.gr\/?page_id=513"},"modified":"2022-01-03T02:58:50","modified_gmt":"2022-01-02T23:58:50","slug":"about-us","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.prassinosboattours.gr\/?page_id=513&lang=en","title":{"rendered":"About Us"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"alignleft size-medium\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.prassinosboattours.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Kostas_Prassinos-1.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[513]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-151 size-medium\" title=\"Kostas Prasinos\" src=\"http:\/\/www.prassinosboattours.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Kostas_Prassinos-1-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"Kostas Prasinos\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.prassinosboattours.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Kostas_Prassinos-1-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.prassinosboattours.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Kostas_Prassinos-1.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<p>A former sailor, Captain Kostas Prassinos couldn\u2019t bear to watch the sea and not be in its embrace.<br \/>\nIn 1973 he sets up the Saint Nicholas, a seaworthy wooden boat.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"alignright size-medium\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.prassinosboattours.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Agios_Nikolaos_Boat_1973.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[513]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-66 size-medium\" title=\"Agios Nikolaos Lanza Boat 1973\" src=\"http:\/\/www.prassinosboattours.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Agios_Nikolaos_Boat_1973-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"Agios Nikolaos Lanza Boat Photo 1973\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.prassinosboattours.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Agios_Nikolaos_Boat_1973-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.prassinosboattours.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Agios_Nikolaos_Boat_1973.jpg 399w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<p>One year later, he replaces it with the Kira Sofia, an equally seaworthy wooden craft.<br \/>\nSo Captain Kostas officially becomes the Koufonissi ferryman.<br \/>\nHe ferries supplies, visitors and the islanders to the island from the ships that cannot dock at the harbour due to the lack of infrastructure, and from the coast of Naxos and the surrounding small islands of the Mikres Kyklades.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-medium\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.prassinosboattours.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Kostas_Prassinos_on_Kyra-Sophia_Lantza_1984-2.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[513]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-70 size-medium\" title=\"Kostas Prassinos on Kyra Sophia Lantza Boat 1984\" src=\"http:\/\/www.prassinosboattours.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Kostas_Prassinos_on_Kyra-Sophia_Lantza_1984-2-300x204.jpg\" alt=\"Kostas Prassinos on Kyra Sophia Lantza Boat Photo 1984\" width=\"300\" height=\"204\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.prassinosboattours.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Kostas_Prassinos_on_Kyra-Sophia_Lantza_1984-2-300x204.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.prassinosboattours.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Kostas_Prassinos_on_Kyra-Sophia_Lantza_1984-2.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<p>The most important service provided was the transportation of patients, even under adverse weather conditions, from Koufonissi and the surrounding islands to Naxos where there was a medical facility.<br \/>\nNowadays the term Captain Kostas\u2019 boat actually refers to more than one boats belonging to the Prasinos family.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"alignright size-medium\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.prassinosboattours.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Kyra-Sophia_Lantza_1989.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[513]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-74 size-medium\" title=\"'Kyra Sophia' Lantza Boat 1989\" src=\"http:\/\/www.prassinosboattours.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Kyra-Sophia_Lantza_1989-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"'Kyra Sophia' Lantza Boat Photo 1989\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.prassinosboattours.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Kyra-Sophia_Lantza_1989-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.prassinosboattours.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Kyra-Sophia_Lantza_1989.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<p>In the summer months, May to end of September, Prasinos Boat Tours provides transport services to the visitors of the island to the beaches of Pano and Kato Koufonissi every hour on the hour from 10.00am<br \/>\nThe boat ticket is valid for the whole day.<br \/>\nHave 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