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A Six-Cabin Charter Gulet Sailing Turkey And Greece This page last updated on 05/03/2012 Dear Homo Sapiens, There is no need to continue reading this page. What
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links immediately above. Thank You. You are probably searching for a charter yacht sailing Turkey
or Greece. You may even be searching for a charter gulet sailing Turkey or Greece. You may be thinking of
a yacht charter in the Aegean, or of a gulet charter in the eastern Mediterranean, perhaps with your
extended family. Or with a group of business associates. Or with fellow club members. A bridge club or a
church club. Alternatively, you may be researching Francis of Lorraine. Or researching Mami Reis, an Ottoman
corsair taken at Corsica in 1540 coincident
with the capture of Dragut (Turgut Reis).
In any of these events you might consider Kubilay Sezen, a handsome charter gulet sailing Turkey and Greece,
cruising one of the world's last remaining tree-fringed coasts, cruising the Aegean from remote Dodecanese
island to remote Dodecanese island, sailing the crossroads of history. With eight double cabins, each en
suite, in addition to separate crew quarters, and with large foredeck and quarterdeck in addition to
pilot-house salon, there are few more optimum alternatives for a family reunion, for a corporate meeting,
for a club gathering in a different venue, or for on-site history instruction. Come sail these seas, breathe
the aroma of pine-shrouded coves dotting Turkey's Turquoise Coast, bask under a warm Aegean sun after swimming
in Greece's azure sea, join in the search for a perfect tsatziki, climb |
to
an ancient acropolis re-fortified in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries by the Hospitaller Knights of
Saint John of Jerusalem known then as the Knights of Rhodes. Taken to Civitavecchia by his captor the Papal
Admiral Gentile Virginio Orsini and sent to the oars of a Vatican galley, Mami Reis was ransomed by
Kheir-ed-Din Barbarossa one year later. Mami, by the way, was an Ottoman of Albanian extraction from Valona
(modern Vlore) who obtained a place in history engaging these same Hospitaller Knights. It was in June 1557
when the Hospitallers were better known as the Knights of Malta, but also when they dreamed of recovering
their former domain. Sailing in company with Deli Giaffer, the Ottoman governor of Rhodes, and with Mustafa
Colaxis and Kara Yusuf, each of the four in his own galley, accompanied by numerous smaller galliots, they
encountered in the southern Aegean between Candia, Crete, and Kasos in the Dodecanese a Knights flotilla of
five red-hulled black-prowed galleys. Commanded by 23-year old Francis of Lorraine, Grand Prior of France,
the Knights enjoyed
an advantage in numbers of galleys and galliots but lacked an advantage in experience. Francis was gravely
wounded during the ensuing combat while fifty knights lost their lives and others were captured, a huge number
for an order with perhaps 500 knights in total. Mami Reis survived unscathed to parade victorious through the
Aegean and to fight another day. Why not enjoy the luxury of your own parade through the Aegean aboard a charter
gulet sailing Greece and Turkey. Surely this is the holiday for which you search. Rare comfort under sun at
the crossroads of history. Try it! You'll like it! Francis of Lorraine was the eleventh child of Claude de
Lorraine, Duke of Guise, and Antoinette de Bourbon, and the second son to be named Francis. Those were the
necessary ingredients to become a Knight of the holy order of Saint John of Jerusalem: royal blood and little
or no inheritance. The first child of Claude and Antoinette, Mary of Guise, married King James V of Scotland
and gave birth to Mary Queen of Scots. But this is about Francis. Not the elder Francis who became Duke of
Guise, but the 11th of 12 children. The bas relief above and to the left is Faith of the virtues Faith, Hope,
and Charity, and comes from the tomb of Antoinette de Bourbon who must have had a lot of it because she was
preceded in death not only by her husband but also by most of her children. The cognomen, Grand Prior, was an
honorary ecclesiastical title of the Hospitallers. Francis, Grand Prior of France, will go down in
history not for combat with Mami Reis, and not for his ecclesiastical endeavors, but for being one of the
first prominent tobacco enthusiasts in Europe. Upon his endorsement, tobacco in France became known as the
"Herb of the Prior." Francis of Lorraine died of unreported causes during the French Wars of
Religion, six weeks short of his 29th birthday and one month after his older brother Francis, Duke of Guise,
was assassinated. Kubilay Sezen, a motor-sailing charter gulet cruising the crossroads of history in Turkey
and Greece. Contact Blue Cruise Yacht Charters today at