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schooner-rigged gulet accommodating up to twelve guests in six private cabins, a fast schooner-rigged
yacht homeported in Fethiye on Turkey's southwest coast, a fast schooner-rigged gulet experienced in
sailing the crossroads of history. Called Macry during the Ottoman period, Fethiye has seen its share of
sea captains, known in Turkish as reis. One such was Murat Reis of Genoa who appeared at Macry in
1603 assembling an Ottoman naval squadron with embarked janissaries. By then known as Usta Murat in
recognition of his command abilities, he was born the son of a sea captain at the Genovese suburb of
Levanto in the year 1570. The suburb's name may have been a harbinger. As an ambitious twenty year-old he
appeared at Tunis in 1590 and voluntarily converted |
to Islam, signing on as corsair crew. Within a few years he was master of his own corsair galliot,
within five he owned three of them and had become a confidant of the Dey of Tunis. This for a 25 year-old.
Soon he brought his father the sea captain to Tunis. And his bride. And brothers with families, and his
wife's Genovese brother who as Usta Hassan became a famous corsair in his own right. Sailing both on his
own and in company with Englishman John Ward, Murat like any good Genovese focused his fury on Venice. In
a single year, 1624, Murat devastated Venetian Perast in the Gulf of Kotor, days later took two vessels of
Perast in the Albanian port of Durres, and followed with raids at the Venetian, now Greek, islands of Paxos,
Antipaxos, and Ithaca. One year later he engaged the galley squadron of the Hospitaller Knights of Saint
John of Jerusalem, then known as the Knights of Malta, capturing two of them, the San Juan and
San Francisco. In command of all Tunisian galleys, that year it was said Usta Murat controlled the
Mediterranean. Seven years later he threatened to execute all Catholic priests captured and brought to
Tunis unless Spain did away with its barbarous Inquisition of Moriscos and Jews. The threat, unfortunately,
had little effect in Spain, and, fortunately, in Tunis. In 1637 Ottoman Sultan Murat IV named Usta Murat as
Dey of Tunis. Murat of Genoa died at Tunis of natural causes in 1640, almost 50 years to the
day from his arrival in that city. He left three sons and a daughter, the latter wed to Ali Picenino,
ruler without title of neighboring Algiers. Murat's residential palace is today a Tunis landmark mosaics
of which are depicted to the left. Come aboard the gulet Duramaz and charter Turkey along the crossroads
of history, sailing Murat of Genoa's 1603 track from Fethiye west along the underbelly of Asia Minor and
into the Aegean, or charter Turkey southeast from Fethiye to Kastellorizon where the aforementioned
Knights of Saint John, then the Knights of Rhodes, maintained an outpost for two centuries. Come enjoy the
holiday of a lifetime along the coast of Turkey, sailing its turquoise sea off white sand beaches under
the slopes of precipitous mountains. Duramaz, a superb crewed gulet chartering Turkey and knowledgeable
of local history. Contact Blue Cruise Yacht Charters today at