Schooner-rigged Samarkand was built to sail.
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capital. If the former, that is, should you be searching for a charter yacht sailing Aegean Greece and
Mediterranean Turkey, you might consider the new 87-foot motor-sailing yacht Samarkand, a luxury charter
sailing yacht cruising Turkey and Greece, cruising one of the world's last remaining tree-fringed coasts,
cruising from remote Dodecanese island to remote Dodecanese island. Just as in the 4th century BC did the
120-foot triremes accompanying Alexander in his march down the same coast, and just as in the early
fifteenth century AD did the 135-foot red-hulled, black-prowed, galleys of the Knights Hospitallers of
Rhodes, also known as the Knights of Saint John of Jerusalem. Sortie-ing from Rhodes Town's middle harbor
in December 1402 they sped along the same coast to relief of the Hospitaller outpost in Smyrna (now Izmir)
only to arrive hours after the outpost fell to Timur (or Tamerlane/Timur The Lame). Five months earlier
Sultan Bayezit I (Yildirim, The Thunderbolt) had deserted the high ground around Ankara only to have Timur
supplant him there. And there began the period in Ottoman Turkish history known as the interregnum during
which the Ottoman state remained dysfunctional while Timur or, following Timur's 1403 return to Samarkand,
death, and entombment (photo above), his son Shahrukh ruled in Anatolia. While the Knights Hospitallers had
been evicted from Smyrna,
they took advantage of the
interregnum in 1407 to wrest Halikarnassus (now Bodrum) from its local Mentese rulers and to build there
the massive castle of St. Peter so well preserved today (photo at right). As for Alexander, his chroniclers
allow that it was at Samarkand he began to drink too much. And it was at Samarkand he began to polish off
suspect lieutenants. One small chapter at the crossroads of history. Come sail these crossroads yourself,
breathe the aroma of pine-shrouded coves dotting Turkey's Turquoise Coast, bask under a warm Aegean sun
after swimming in its azure sea, join in the search for a perfect tzatziki, climb to an ancient acropolis
re-fortified by these same Knights, enjoy the luxury of a catered yacht charter in 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! Samarkand, a superb crewed yacht available for charter in Greece and Turkey. Contact
Blue Cruise Yacht Charters today at