This fast sailing catamaran
Accommodations for guests consist of three double cabins
A comfortable salon and adjoining navigation station open to the cockpit and swimming steps.
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Cleopatra's honeymoon route from Turkey to Greece. Perhaps on your own honeymoon or anniversary. Or
you may simply be searching for a Leopard 45 catamaran, a product of Cape Town, South Africa.
Whichever, you have come to the right place. Cape Town, by the way, was first settled (by Europeans)
in 1652 with arrival of ships of the Dutch East India Company, there to establish a waypoint for their
seamen en route to the East Indies. That century, the 17th, welcomed a flood of Dutch seamen many of
whom achieved lasting renown. Michiel Adriaenszoon de Ruyter was perhaps the most famous, sweeping the
English from the sea during three Anglo-Dutch wars and, in a 1655-1656 interim, having more moderate
success against corsairs swarming the Mediterranean, some Dutch. An early Dutch corsair was Jan
Janszoon Van Haarlem who first appeared in the Mediterranean in 1618 commanding his own vessel in a
corsair squadron led by Salomo de Veenboer operating out of Algiers. On Veenboer's death in 1619
Janszoon relocated to Sale (Rabat), Morocco, from which port he preyed on merchant shipping on both
sides of the Straits of Gibraltar. He also became the driving force behind Sale's 1623 secession from
the Moroccan Sultanate, declaring itself the Republic of Sale. Jan Janszoon became the republic's first
president. And its first admiral, commanding a squadron of 16 vessels similar to that depicted at left.
He had meanwhile renounced his Christian faith, converted to Islam, and taken the name Murat. He had
also wed a Moorish woman in spite of already having a wife and children in Holland.
That same year of 1623 he put into the port of Veere in Holland
to re-provision his ships and was visited by his Dutch wife and children. These pleaded unsuccessfully
with him to renounce his life at sea. At sea when flying the Dutch flag he continued to be known as
Jan Janszoon, but when flying the flag of Islam he was known as Murat Reis. It was as Murat Reis that
he did the most damage, some in the North Sea and the English Channel. In 1627 he even raided Reykjavik,
Iceland, sailing away with the city's stock of smoked fish as well as with 400 captives. During his
absence in Iceland, though, he had been deposed at Sale and was forced to relocate to Algiers and then
to Tripoli. Over the next decade he continued wreaking havoc with merchant shipping including
traffic in the Greek Aegean where he also terrorized islanders. In 1639, however, he was taken captive
by the Knights of Malta and, as a notoriously wealthy robber baron, held for a ransom paid in 1640.
That was Jan Janszoon's swan song. He did not care for the knight's Maltese dungeon. He obtained
permission to return to Sale and retired. There he was joined by his Dutch daughter Lysbeth and there
he raised two sons by his Moorish wife, Anthony and Abraham van Salee. The sons became corsairs almost
as famous as their father, but later immigrated with their ill-gotten gains to New Amsterdam in North
America. A direct North American descendent of Jan Janszoon was Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt, the
nineteenth century steamship and railroad robber baron depicted to the right. Another was Jacqueline
Bouvier Kennedy, wife of
the 35th president of the United States. According to the Public Broadcasting System's Frontline,
still another was the actor Humphrey Bogart. Each of these individuals owed their existence to a
merciless 17th century Dutch corsair. Come join us at the crossroads of history. Come sail azure seas
between remote islands, just as did Jan Janszoon known to some as Murat Reis. Just as did Cleopatra on her
honeymoon route up the Lycian and Carian coasts of Turkey and among Aegean islands of Greece. Come charter
a crewed sailing catamaran to cruise the crossroads of history. Do you already plan to holiday in Greece
or Turkey? Would you like to holiday aboard a crewed sailing catamaran chartered in Turkey? Would you
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route up the Turkish coast to Samos, or Jan Janszoon's raiding tracks among Cyclades islands of Greece.
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