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A Suggested Routing For Cruising Turkey And Greece A Larger Ketch-Rigged Gulet Cruising Turkey And Greece Another Larger Ketch-Rigged Gulet Cruising Turkey And Greece A Larger Schooner-Rigged Gulet Cruising Turkey And Greece This page last updated on 05/10/2008 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 gulet cruising in Turkey and Greece may be obtained by clicking on the blue links immediately above. Thank You. You may be searching for a charter gulet cruising Turkey. Perhaps you are thinking of a charter gulet holiday cruising the Turquoise Coast of Turkey between Bodrum and Antalya. Or you may be dreaming of a Blue Cruise from one secluded bay surrounded by pine trees to another secluded bay pressing up against olive groves. Or you may be contemplating charter of a sailing yacht to cruise Turkey's Aegean coast. Or you might like to charter a crewed sailing yacht to cruise Turkey's other coast, the southern Mediterranean coast. You may be searching for a charter gulet cruising Greece, one cruising among Dodecanese Islands of Greece just off the Turkish coast. You may be hoping to cruise from inviting beach to blue-water cove to pastel-tinted waterfront town. You may be anticipating grilled octopus and tsatziky. And you may be dreaming of cruising further north among Greece's rarely visited Eastern Sporades. To Lesbos, for example, where the Barbarossa brothers were born, all four of them. Not to mention two sisters. Or you might like to do all of the above. No doubt you already plan to holiday in Greece or Turkey. Perhaps with your family. Or with a small group of friends. If so, a rather large yacht with few guest accommodations may be that for which you are searching. Consider Primadonna, a 71-foot ketch-rigged charter gulet cruising Turkey and Greece with no more than six guests in three guest cabins. Luxury accommodations on a luxury yacht. You might charter such a yacht to cruise the Aegean from Bodrum. Three of the Barbarossa brothers cruised the Aegean near Bodrum during the final decade of the fifteenth century, the eldest Aruj, Elias the next, and Khizr the youngest. But the prima donna in that family was Catalina, the mother. She had earlier been widowed childless by a Greek Orthodox priest. The primo uomo in the new family was a retired Ottoman janissary of Greek or Albanian origins with the janissary-assigned name of Yakub. He became a successful potter as well as a prodigious father not slowed by thirty years of Ottoman service. All of them despised Latins. Elias was in about 1496 to fall in combat with Hospitaller Knights from Rhodes. Isaac, the third son, was in 1518 to die in combat with the Spanish in North Africa. Aruj, the first Barbarossa and eldest, was to become Emir of Algiers in 1516 before, like Isaac, losing his life in combat with the Spanish in 1518. Khizr, the second and more famous Barbarossa later named Kheir-ed-Din by Sultan Selim, was to become Lord High Admiral of the Ottoman Navy. In 1543 he wed the Italian beauty Flavia Gaetani and died in bed in Istanbul three years later. You might like to pursue this anecdote while cruising from either Bodrum or Gocek. You might like to cruise Aruj's path from Gocek down the Lycian coast of Turkey to Antalya, and his path from Antalya past Pamphyllia and Cilicia to Alexandretta where he preyed on Silk Road traffic out of the Levant, and his path from Alexandretta to Alexandria where he took service with the Egyptian Mamluk sultan. Or you might like to cruise the Knights' path from Rhodes Town down the same coast to Kastellorizon and thence to Alexandretta where in 1510 they laid waste to a Mamluk flotilla, but a flotilla which did not include Aruj Barbarossa. Should you be searching for Gocek in Turkey or for Rhodes Town in Greece, well, the first is about 42 nautical miles ENE of the latter while the latter is at the northeastern tip of Rhodes itself. At either place or in Bodrum you may come aboard Primadonna, a charter sailing yacht affording unforgettable holidays. You may come aboard a crewed charter yacht with an experienced crew able to show you the paths of Kheir-ed-Din (Defender of the Faith) up and down the coast of Turkey and into the Aegean where he many times over put paid to the fate of his three brothers. Primadonna, a fine charter gulet cruising Turkey and Greece. Contact Blue Cruise Yacht Charters today at bcycharter@aol.com |
