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on the blue links immediately above. Thank you. This web page deals with an eight guest-cabin
gaff-rigged charter schooner called Batuhan sailing the Turkish and Greek Aegean. A yacht large
enough for you and for everyone with whom you might wish to spend a week. Should you be
considering a group charter in the Greek Aegean or a group charter in the Turkish
Aegean, well, read on. The schooner Batuhan offers group charters along Turkey's pine-clad cove-indented
Aegean coast. She also offers group charters among Dodecanese and Cyclades islands of Aegean Greece. She is
further able to take her guests along the crossroads of history, and is able to offer informal classes in
geography as well as history, including corsair geography and corsair history. Would that be of interest to
the young people in your group? Sailing in the wake of Ottoman corsairs such as the Barbarossa brothers.
Sailing in the wake of Khizr Barbarossa's lieutenant general, or senior lieutenant, Aydin Reis? What do you
know about Aydin Reis? Anything at all? Aydin Reis was an Ethiopian by heritage and a Coptic Christian by
upbringing probably born in Antalya, Turkey, in 1485 or so. Some say he was born at Smyrna on the Turkish
Aegean but in either event he was born to the sea, fishing as a toddler, crewing in his teens, learning the
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marine trade early-on. Learning the marine trade in the company of Sinan of Smyrna, a corsair who was to
become Barbarossa's brother-in-law by marriage to a Barbarossa sister. In his twenties and then known as
Aydin Caramano, he and Sinan were in the pay of the Mameluke sultan of Egypt attempting to clear sea lanes
for the sultan's merchants and, in their spare time, preying on Latin-held islands of the Aegean. Preying on
Latins was a favorite pastime of 16th century Orthodox Christians including Copts. Both Aydin and Sinan soon
came to Barbarossa's attention while the former rose in ability to surpass Sinan in Barbarossa's esteem, and
was assigned the lead role when Aydin and Sinan sailed in company. By 1520 Aydin Reis had become Barbarossa's
senior lieutenant and was at his right hand when Tunis was taken in that year. Twelve months later he could be
found plundering the (Latin) Spanish coast and offshore Balearic Islands, and in the years to follow he was to
make himself familiar with (Latin) Sardinia and (Latin) Sicily, as well. Perhaps his finest day came in 1529.
Already known to the Spanish as Cacciadiavoli, loosely interpreted as Hunting Devil, he that
year commanded with Hassan Celebi, Salih Reis, and Suleiman Reis a flotilla of eleven ships, mostly small
open-decked galliots called fustas. At Formentera while transporting Moors from Spain to Africa he was
surprised by a flotilla of eight large galleys under the command of Rodrigo Portundo, Admiral of the Spanish
Armada. The battle should have been over in minutes with Portundo emerging victorious. It was over in minutes
with Portundo dead and with Aydin Reis victorious having captured seven of the eight galleys, having freed
from the benches hundreds of Muslim slaves, and having scores of prisoners to be held for ransom or to fill
the vacuum at the oars. Some say the word gulet derives from galley. Why not charter a crewed gulet like
Batuhan to cruise through galley history, not, however, to ignore the Aegean's coves and back-bays. Starting in
Smyrna, perhaps. or in nearby Foca. Are you searching for Smyrna in Turkey? Now called Izmir, it may be found
due east of Chios Town on the Greek island of Chios and proximate to its own international airport. There or
elsewhere we can put you aboard a group charter yacht sailing both the Turkish and Greek Aegean. We can put
you aboard a charter yacht with an experienced crew able to show you the Gulf of Smyrna and able to sail with
you on the Imbat, that famous wind able to move the largest of gulets. And, of course, able to show
you Aydin Reis's tracks in pursuit of Latin shipping. Batuhan, a fine schooner available for group charters
in the Greek and Turkish Aegean. Contact Blue Cruise Yacht Charters today
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