Bare Boat Sailing In Turkey And Greece BLUE CRUISE YACHT CHARTERS Archaeology, History, Sun and Fun Anniversary, Holiday, Honeymoon On Turkey's Turquoise Coast And In The Greek Aegean (Click on Yacht Type For Further Information)
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be obtained by clicking on the blue links immediately above. Thank You. A memorable bare
boat charter holiday in Turkey and Greece. An unforgettable honeymoon cruising the Turquoise
Coast of Turkey and among Aegean islands of Greece. Begin your bare boat or bareboat holiday or
honeymoon sailing a bare boat or bareboat from Gocek or Marmaris or Bodrum in Turkey and sail
under a warm sun along the Turquoise Coast to Kos and Rhodes and other Greek islands. Sail waters
steeped in history. Sail the crossroads of history. Sail waters once patrolled by red-hulled
black-prowed galleys of the Hospitaller Knights of Saint John of Jerusalem also known as the Knights
of Rhodes and, later in history, as the Knights of Malta. Sail from Gocek or Marmaris out into the
Rhodes Channel across which the war galleys and troop transports of Suleiman The Magnificent
proceeded to the siege of Rhodes. Sail the channel between Rhodes and mainland Turkey once sailed
by Bernardino Piossasco d'Airasca, a bilingual Knight of Rhodes from the Piemontese Alpine region
between Italy and France. And an able seaman. Assigned in 1503 as commander of the Knights garrison
on the Greek island of Kos, for the ensuing two years he regularly plied the sea lane between Kos
and Rhodes, familiarizing himself with local winds and safe havens such as Knidos and Simi, Loryma
and Serce, lying between the two. Later promoted to command of the Knights flotilla which for two
hundred years had spread fear along the opposite coast, he learned of the Spring 1522 build-up of
shipping in Marmaris Bay 25 nautical miles to the north and took reports of the imminent arrival
there of the Ottoman sultan, even learning details of the construction in Marmaris of a walled
fortress preserved today. Hundreds of ships coming down local ways, it was reported. War galleys
and troop transports to carry regiments of janissaries and mounted sipahis, sappers and siege
cannon. Tens of thousands. Perhaps a hundred thousand, all with logistics support. There were
reports of the presence of Ottoman corsairs conscripted for service to the state, corsairs such as
Murat Reis and Kurtoglu (Son of the Wolf) Muslihiddin Reis and, some reports had it, of Barbarossa
himself. Surveying his own armada at Rhodes Town harbor he must have been not a little dismayed.
Four war galleys belonging to the Order and several others belonging to Latin corsairs. Seven
against half a thousand! D'Airasca ordered the harbor chain raised and locked. He saved his small
flotilla and perhaps forty other small craft from certain destruction. A magnanimous Suleiman
recognizing six months of siege bravery on the part of 5,000 decimated defenders permitted the
survivors on 1 January 1523 to sail on those same galleys and small craft to their freedom.
Accompanying fewer than two hundred knights and 800 other defenders were 4,000
Rhodians, mostly Latin. It
being mid-winter, Airasca led his flotilla first to Iraklion in Crete where the Greeks settled,
and, during the following summer, on to Civitavecchia in Italy. To Suleiman's later regret, each
of the Knights galleys lived to fight another day. Isn't this the sort of background to a bare boat
(bareboat) family holiday at the crossroads of history in which you are interested? Well, there's
more where that came from. Much more. Please remember, too, that bare boats come in a multitude of
designs, some new, some old, and some in between, some exquisitely maintained ("selects,"
the ancients termed them) and some ignored, some priced fairly and some not. To charter the boat
meeting your criteria, you need an advocate of your interests, at the scene, making an inspected
selection. Contact Blue Cruise Yacht Charters today at
bcycharter@aol.com or phone us at
+90-533-230-5781.
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