I've done Crete form east to waest to east twice back in 2011. (the northern part) Crete is simply much different than the rest of Greede in many respects, you can still find a large variety of
food , mostly veggies, awesome land scape, friendly people. There are some but not many well shelters bays ansd in general, it's windyyy..There are few
marinas, Rethminos being the newest and best one. The
marinas are much cheaper than in
Turkey or
Croatia. Xania, Ago Nicholas are spectacular.. Iraklios is a waste of time, terrible place... I haven't been to the south coast as the book say it's not worth to to sail. I went there by car and I think the
books are right..
Cheers
Yeloya