[WHOOSH]

F:

"If you can think of anything else, please feel free to send me a message."

I advise you to be reserved in your acceptance of whatever info you receive from the Greek Embassy. (Is that in DC? In a 3rd country?) There typically is a huge gap between ''theory'' and ''practice'', or the difference between the Embassy staffer who has read the relevant code and offers a view from a distance and the local official in the particular port of your interest who''s done the job for some years, and who makes things work at the loca level. This is IME a universal truism, not something ''Greek''.

I wish this weren''t so, as right now I''m trying to clarify our own legal options for wintering in the Netherlands and I can find opposite, clearly stated views on the same extended stay issue on two Netherlands Embassy websites - DC and London, both as they relate to U.S. citizens. And I''m sure there''s a third view we''ll learn about first-hand when we visit Amersterdam. (And perhaps a fourth...).

I don''t really think there is AN answer, but rather a blend of answers...and despite it being somewhat counterintuitive, I think if you read the comments of multiple yachties who are passing thru the area of interest to you, you''ll get straighter scoop than talking to a given official in a distant city who''s probably never walked a port''s dock nor collected a fee from a foreign yachtsmen.

Jack