A Crewed Sailing Yacht Chartering In Greece And Turkey A 5-Cabin Catamaran Chartering In Greece And Turkey This page last updated on 03/08/2010 Dear Homo Sapiens, There is no need to continue reading this
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searching for Peri Mason because, if so, you have come to the wrong place. Try Perry Mason,
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for Perry Como. Try Crooner. This is not even the web site for Piri Reis. But you are closer
to the mark as this page deals not just with the yacht Peri but also with Kemal Reis the uncle of
Piri Reis. This page also deals with crewed motor sailers chartering in Greece and Turkey, with
crewed motor sailers cruising the Aegean and eastern Mediterranean, with Blue Cruises in Turkey and
Greece, and with yacht charters along Turkey's Turquoise Coast, exploring that pine-clad shore from
secluded bay to secluded bay. This page also deals with sailing in Greece, with cruising azure sea
between one remote Aegean island and the next. How about doing some or all of these things aboard a
crewed motor sailer with accommodations for ten guests. How about chartering a crewed sailing yacht
to cruise ancient Aeolis and Ionia below the Dardanelles, sailing in the wake of Kemal Reis along
the coast of Caria and among Greek Dodecanese islands. While you holiday. How about having a family
holiday aboard a crewed motor sailer cruising the west coast of Turkey. Or how about having
a group holiday aboard a crewed motor sailer proceeding leisurely from one enchanting Greek locale to
another. Kemal Reis, also known as Camali, cruised these waters for the forty years to his death in
1510. He also cruised the Greek Cyclades in mid-Aegean. Reis means captain, Ottoman
sea captain, in this instance, and Kemal Reis was an early Ottoman sea captain commanding a flotilla
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from the island of Euboea under Mehmet
the Conqueror at the unsuccessful 1480 siege of Rhodes. You, too, can cruise the coast of Rhodes. Or
cruise beyond Rhodes. Kemal Reis did that, too. Following the siege Kemal Reis became a corsair and
for more than ten years harassed Christian shipping in the eastern and western Mediterranean before
returning to service with the House of Osman in 1494 under Beyazit II. That is said to be Kemal Reis
depicted to the left. Would you like to visit Bodrum, heart and pulse of the Turkish Riviera? Kemal
Reis did. Are you searching for Bodrum in Turkey? For Mitilene (Lesbos) in Greece? Well, at either of
these ports or elsewhere we can put you aboard a crewed motor sailer for a holiday not to be forgotten,
we can put you aboard a crewed yacht sailing Turkey and Greece at your dirction. We can put you aboard
a motor sailer with an experienced crew able to show you Kemal Reis's many tracks exiting the
Dardanelles en route from Constantinople or his home at Gallipoli to points south and west, frequently
in company with his nephew Piri Reis later a noted author and cartographer. Kemal must have been
personable, a charmer even, because he rose to high position in the Ottoman Navy, Admiral, with a
notably uninspiring record. He did so, of course, during a period of Ottoman naval expansion as Beyazit
in effect created a navy from scratch, bringing in corsairs to fill the officer ranks and establishing
a janissary college at Gallipoli. Kemal Reis was one of the corsairs brought in from the cold, a
corsair who for fourteen years had preyed on mostly defenseless shipping before this second assignment
with the house of Osman. And this assignment and those to follow were uniformly undistinguished. He
participated under Daoud Pasha against Venice in the 1499 Battle of Navarino, neither victory nor defeat.
He abandoned Kefallonia to the Venetians later in the same year. In 1502 he sortied from the Dardanelles
with fifty galleys and galliots for an unsuccessful assault on both Kos and the Castle of St. Peters in
Bodrum before rushing to the defense of Mitilene then besieged by French and Venetians. Later in 1502 as
Governor he lost the island of Santa Maura (Lefkas) in the Ionian and twelve galliots to a Papal
squadron no larger than his own. While his five hundred janissaries were hung from the defensive
walls, Kemal Reis escaped. Returning to Constantinople he charmed Sultan Bayezit out of sixty more
galleys and galliots, losing half of them in a storm near Mitilene days after exiting the
Dardanelles. We next hear of him in 1505 with a fleet of twenty marauding along the coast of
Rhodes until forced to abandon the undertaking by a superior land force led by the Knights of Rhodes.
There followed an unsuccessful siege of the Knights fortress at Simi, and an unsuccessful assault on
the Knights fortress at Tilos, and failure again at Nisiros. One year later there was an unsuccessful
siege of the Knights fortress at Leros. In 1509 there was yet another unsuccessful siege of the
Knights fortress at Kos. Finally, in 1510, with forty ships under his command, he lost twenty-seven
and his life in a storm off