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charter catamaran. You may wish to cruise the coast of Turkey. Having read about it, you may wish
to enjoy the Blue Cruise. You may be dreaming of running before the wind from one pine-encircled
bay to another, from one sand beach to the next sand beach. Or you may be thinking of a crewed
charter catamaran to guide you through the remotest part of Greece. A stable platform on which to
ride the Meltemi between sugar-cube encrusted islands. A crewed charter catamaran on which
to poke into coves surrounded by Greek blue and white. Or surrounded by nothing at all. You may
even be hoping to sail Greece and Turkey at once. It can be done. How about sailing Greece and
Turkey aboard a crewed charter catamaran with accommodations for eight guests. A charter catamaran
large enough for you and dear friends. How about chartering such a catamaran to cruise Turkey's
ancient Caria. From Caunos to Miletus and among offshore Greek Dodecanese islands. Or to sail
Turkey's ancient Ionia and among Greek Sporades islands. While you holiday with friends! A holiday
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cruising the coast of
Asia Minor and among Aegean islands exactly as did the Athenian Conon, no relation to Conan,
exactly as did Conon 2400 years ago. Conon was a Greek general of the sea at the time. He was also
a Greek of mixed credentials. Said to be from the family of Sophocles, he first appeared to
history in 413 BC as a Spartan-beleaguered commander at Naupactus in the Gulf of Corinth, his
flotilla of triremes requiring aid from those of Demosthenes. We next hear of him five years later
in command of Athenians at the Battle of Mytilene (Lesbos). He lost 30 triremes there. And the
battle. Three years later Athens lost its war with Sparta at Aegospotami, Conon alone escaping the
slaughter. With nine galleys he thereupon sought protection from the Great King of Persia.
Reorganized by 394 BC he dealt the Spartans a stinging defeat off old Knidos,
the modern Datca, and returned to Athens a hero. There the Greeks erected two bronze statues of
him in the agora. Another bronze statue went up at Caunos, and still another at Loryma. According
to the British antiquarian Charles Newton poking around new Knidos in 1854, a monument, the Lion
Monument comparing in stature with the Mausoleum, was erected there (on Aslan Burnu) in Conon's
honor. While the lion giving the monument its name has been transported to the British Museum, no
one has ever explained why a monument commemorating an event in 394 BC was erected on the
outskirts of a city not inhabited until 30 years later. Oh, well. We next hear of Conon charged
with assault and battery. He was prosecuted in Athen's agora under the shadow of his own statues by
Demosthenes, the same Demosthenes who had come to his rescue twenty-odd years earlier. Convicted,
Conon was exiled and returned to Persia. But the Great King soon tired of Conon's belligerence
and the last heard of him he was at war against Persia on the side of the Egyptian Pharaoh
Achoris. That was in 386 BC, and that's all they wrote! But Conan, no relation to Conon, can
take you to Caunos, to Loryma, to old Knidos, and to new Knidos to have a look around. In the
yard behind Coban Ali's restaurant at Loryma you might pose on what was likely a Conon statue-base.
The statue itself is gone, of course, bronze being of too much value to just lie around for 2400
years. Come do this aboard Conan, no relation to Conon, a fine charter catamaran sailing
Turkey and Greece. Contact Blue Cruise Yacht Charters today at