Crew Profile

NIKOLAOS PSALLIDAS , 40, GREEK
Captain

Captain Nikolaos was born October 22, 1975 in Athens, Greece. He is married and speaks fluent English as well as conversational French and Spanish. His love of everything related to the sea led him to the decision to follow his father’s footsteps and joined merchant shipping. He graduated from “Merchant Marine Academy of Athens“ and spent the following 6 years aboard ocean-going container ships first as a 2nd officer and then as a chief officer. His thirst for gaining experience in other types of ships took him aboard high-speed ferries where he spent 2 years in Greek waters. Through out all these years Nikolaos spent many months of his shore leave working as windsurfing and cat-sailing instructor. In 2007 Nikolaos decided to make a major career change and joined the yachting industry. His obsession with sailing made it impossible for him to refuse an offer to command charter S/Y “Callisto“, a 80ft classic Nautor’s Swan. After that there was no looking back. During the following years he gained valuable experience working on planning commercial motor yachts as well as Perini Navi sailing yachts. As of 2011 Nikolaos holds a master's unlimited license.
During his free time he enjoys practicing wind-surfing, cat-sailing and scuba diving.

FILIPPOS KARRAS
Engineer
Fillipos graduated as an officer from the Merchant Marine Acedemy of Aspropirgos. He started his
career from tanker and passenger ships. He has been in the yachting for over 10 years. He has
diploma on speed boats. He joined the Kambos Blue team 2 years ago. In his free time he likes to play basketball and backgammon.

GEORGE MANOUSOS
Chef
George is from beautiful Lesvos Island. He studied at the Touristic School of Thessaloniki but his rea passion was cooking. So he decided to expand his knowledge and attended Chef School and cooking seminars for a couple of years. George's first contact with yachting was in 2000 as a seaman and he loved lt. He has diploma for speed boats, skipper on sailing boat and seaman diploma as well. Since then he combined both of his passions and continues on Professional level till now.
He joined the Kambos Blue team from the very beginning when the yacht was built and launched.
On his free time he likes tae kwon do, playing backgammon and tennis as well.

NIKOL FARNADIOVA
Stewardess
Nikol was born in Slovakia and has studied the English language at the University of Constantine the
Philosopher in Nitra and graduated with a Teacher’s diploma in English.
After l year of teaching English at the Commercial Academy, she decided to join one of the world's
Largest package delivery company in Bratislava where her professional career grew very quickly and
became a manager of Customer Service and International Claims Department.
Very keen to travel and learn different cultures, she worked as a nanny in France and London, but her passion for Greece brought her to Athens in 2005. Since then Nikol has worked on various luxury yachts as a chief stewardess. She then joined the crew of Kambos Blue in 2013. She is professional, at-tentive and loves her job very much. She likes spending her free time by travelling, meeting new peo-ple and most of all she loves baking!