Levent Kaptan is an oak-framed, chestnut-hulled,
schooner-rigged yacht
A Smaller Crewed Charter Yacht Sailing Turkey And Greece A Smaller Bareboat Charter Yacht Sailing Turkey And Greece A Sister Charter Yacht Sailing Turkey And Greece This page last updated on 03/19/2007 Dear Homo Sapiens, There is no need to continue reading this page. What follows is intended for search engine robots and spiders and not necessarily for human beings. Further information concerning charter yachts sailing Turkey and Greece may be obtained by clicking on the blue links immediately above. Thank You. You may be searching for a charter yacht sailing holiday in Greece. Or for a charter yacht sailing Turkey, for a charter yacht sailing holiday cruising the Turquoise Coast of Turkey. You may be dreaming of a Blue Cruise between Kusadasi and Antalya with visits to Greek Sporades and Greek Dodecanese islands. One of the first Levent kaptans to do this was a Turkish pirate with a Greek name: Tsachas. In the year 1089 he Blue Cruised to Chios in the Sporades. With unfortunate consequences for local Chians then citizens of Constantinople's Eastern Roman (Byzantine) Empire. Something more than a thousand years earlier Saint Paul, too, cruised among Greek islands. He did it returning from his third mission, pausing at Lesbos, Chios, Samos, Kos, and Rhodes. He may have also done it while a prisoner of the Romans en route to Malta by way of Tilos, Karpathos, and Crete. Kheir-ed-Din Barbarossa, a native of Lesbos, also sailed among Greek islands fifteen hundred years later when playing hide-and-seek during the 1530's with Andrea Doria. Before assuming command of the Venetian fleet Doria had been in the service of the French king in the western Mediterranean. And in the service of Genoa, his birthplace. And in the service of the Holy Roman Emperor, then Charles V of Spain. Even earlier he had been a Knight Hospitaller in Rhodes. In short, a Latin. Barbarossa treated all Latins equally. Each suffered at his hands. At the other geographic extreme you might prefer to sail Turkey's more distant Cilician coast. As did the Byzantine admiral Himerius in the year 904 when he set sail from Antalya to trounce a Saracen fleet defending Tarsus. Tarsus, birthplace of Saint Paul, was then subjected to a kind of Tsachas treatment. For that and other reasons this Himerius is not one of the two Saints Himerius. So you already plan to holiday in Greece or Turkey. But at remote blue-water coves and sugar-cube encrusted islands, not at the crossroads of history. With your family. Or with a group of friends. Well then, or in either event, holiday aboard a sailing yacht chartered in Turkey. Charter a crewed sailing yacht to cruise coves and islands from Bodrum. Or from Gocek. Are you searching for Gocek in Turkey? For Antalya in Turkey? For Rhodes or Lesbos in Greece? Well, come aboard Levent Kaptan, a charter yacht offering unforgettable holidays sailing Greece and Turkey. Come aboard a charter yacht with an experienced crew able to show you the Sporades and Dodecanese islands of Greece or Himerius' route along the coasts of Rough Cilicia and Smooth Cilicia. A proper crewed yacht available for charter in Greece and Turkey. Contact Blue Cruise Yacht Charters today at bcycharter@aol.com |
