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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human beings. Further information concerning bare boat (bareboat) sailing in Greece and Turkey may
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 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 Piedmontese 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 Phalerus, 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 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 jannisaries and mounted sipahis. Tens of thousands. Perhaps a hundred thousand.
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 from certain
destruction. A magnanimous Suleiman recognizing six months of siege bravery on the part of 5,000
defenders permitted the survivors on 1 January 1523 to sail on those same galleys to their freedom.
It being mid-winter, d'Airasca led the survivors first to Iraklion in Crete and, during the following
summer, on to Civitavecchia in Italy. Each of the Knights galleys lived to fight another day. Isn't
this the sort of bare boat (bareboat) family holiday at the crossroads of history for which you should
be searching? Well, please remember 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 +90-252-645-1739.
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