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by clicking on the blue links immediately above. Thank You. Are you searching for a
yacht charter-sailing Turkey or Greece? Could you be thinking of charter sailing under a Turkish
sun? Are you hoping to go charter sailing from one isolated cove in Turkey to the next isolated
cove in Turkey? Or are you dreaming of swimming under azure skies in Greece? Of charter sailing
in Greece among sugar-cube encrusted islands of the mid-Aegean? Or both? How about charter
sailing both Turkey and Greece aboard a crewed charter yacht with comfortable |
accommodations for twelve. A crewed charter yacht like Sevket Kaptan, sometimes
called Kaptan Sevket. How about chartering this crewed sailing yacht to cruise the Gulf of
Bodrum. Known in Greece as the Gulf of Kos. Known in antiquity as the Ceramic Gulf. A gulf with
a good afternoon breeze. A gulf with flat water. Sometimes both. Or how about chartering this
crewed sailing gulet to cruise Cleopatra's honeymoon route along the Turkish coasts of ancient
Lycia and Caria and among Greek Dodecanese islands. While you holiday. While you have a family
holiday aboard a crewed sailing yacht doing all of this. Perhaps an extended-family holiday. One
not just with brothers and sisters but with cousins, too. Or would you prefer to have a group of
friends holiday with you aboard a charter yacht proceeding leisurely from intriguing locale in
Turkey to intriguing locale in Greece? Perhaps a charter sailing yacht cruising the Cyclades of
mid-Aegean Greece. Or a charter sailing gulet to cruise further along the Mediterranean coast of
Turkey. Starting in Bodrum. To Gocek. Or to Antalya. Or further. Are you familiar with the saga
of Sidi Ali Reis? The poet and author? Born in 1498 in Istanbul's Galata district, Sidi Ali was
the son and grandson of Ottoman seamen and at a young age went to work in the naval shipyard on
the Golden Horn. Later, according to his memoirs, he was one of Kheir-ed-Din Barbarossa's sea
captains and was at the 1538 Battle of Preveza when Barbarossa outwitted Genoa's Andrea Doria.
He was also with Turgut Reis (Dragut) when in 1551 Tripoli was taken from the Knights of Malta.
In 1554 he was appointed to command of an Ottoman flotilla then at Basra (yes, the Basra in Iraq)
and directed to show the Ottoman flag in the Indian Ocean. He did, but in doing so encountered a
storm of no mean proportions which destroyed all fifteen of his vessels on the Indian coast.
Trapped there in the fashion of Xenophon's Anabasis, he began a long overland trek home,
frequently rescuing his crew from hostile sovereigns by declaiming poetically. Upon his return
to Istanbul he presented to his sultan an account of his Anabasis entitled Mirat ul Memalik
(The Mirror of Countries). The sultan, Suleiman, giving evidence that the pen is more powerful
than the sword, rather than punish Sidi Ali for losing his flotilla instead rewarded him
with a handsome pension which supported his writing, including a book on navigation entitled
The Ocean. Well, we can put you aboard a charter sailing yacht for unforgettable
navigation through waters closer to Sidi Ali's home. We can put you aboard a charter yacht with
an experienced crew able to show you the flat sailing waters of the Gulf of Bodrum, able to show
you Alexander's Path down the coasts of Caria and Lycia, able to show you Cleopatra's Route
up the coast of Turkey and among Greek islands. Sevket Kaptan, a superb crewed yacht charter
sailing Turkey and Greece. Contact Blue Cruise Yacht Charters today at