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follows is intended for search engine robots and spiders and not necessarily for human beings. Further
information concerning Jeanneau cruising in Greece and Turkey may be obtained by clicking on the blue
links immediately above. Thank You. Could you be searching for a sailing yacht on which to
holiday in Turkey? Are you dreaming of a bare boat Jeanneau sailing yacht cruising the southwest coast
of Asia Minor? Could you be imagining a bare boat Jeanneau cruising from one quaint seaside town with
bazaar to the next quaint seaside town dominated by medieval castle? Or are you dreaming of a bare boat
charter in Greece? Of sailing from one pastel-hued island town climbing steep harbor slopes to the next
pastel-hued island town, dining at both on the catch of dozens of brightly painted caiques with fish net
piled high fore and aft? Or is it both Turkey and Greece about which you are dreaming? How about realizing
your dream aboard a Jeanneau cruising both Greece and Turkey with group accommodations? With accommodations
for you two and three like-minded couples. How about chartering a Jeanneau 45.2 to cruise |
the crossroads of history. To sail, for example,
in the wake of galleons and galleys flying the colors of the Medici Knights of Santo Stefano patrolling
the coast of Anatolia and among offshore Aegean islands. While you enjoy those bazaars and pastel hues.
Would you like to have such a holiday cruising Turkey's Turquoise Coast and among remote Aegean islands
of Greece? Surely you would like to holiday aboard a charter yacht proceeding leisurely from one
enchanting island town to the next enchanting island town. Who wouldn't! Or would you prefer to cruise
the other way? Further along the Mediterranean coast of Turkey past Cape Gelidonia toward Alexandretta
(Iskenderun). Starting in Gocek. Are you searching for Gocek in Turkey? Well, Gocek is located in the
NW corner of the Gulf of Fethiye 42 nautical miles ENE of Rhodes Town and 15 road miles from the
international airport at Dalaman. There we can put you aboard a bare boat for the odyssey of a lifetime.
We can put you aboard a charter yacht and point you toward the flat sailing waters of the Gulfs of Gocek
and Fethiye. We can show you tracks left by the aforementioned Knights of Santo Stefano coming and going.
Guillaume de Beauregard was one of those knights, perhaps the most prominent of them and certainly the
one leaving the most permanent legacy. Beauregard was born in France in 1575 to nobility once Florentine.
He was a Knight of the Holy Spirit, the senior chivalric order of France, as well as a Knight of Santo
Stefano, the latter a religious order dedicated to rolling back the spread of Islam. Flying the colors
of Christine of Lorraine, Grand Duchess of (Florentine) Tuscany, Beauregard left near-innumerable
tracks off our shores during the years 1608-1610, beating paths between Ottoman Thrace in the
north and Ottoman Alexandretta in the southeast. He could most often be found with a flotilla of galleys
and galleons lurking off Cape Gelidonya, off the Seven Capes, and in the Rhodes Channel, waiting for the
great Ottoman caravans coming up from the Silk Road terminus at Alexandretta and bound for Constantinople.
He could also be found between Karpathos and Crete lying in wait for equally rich caravans coming up from
Egypt and Libya. In April of 1611 he returned to Livorno from one such expedition for the last time.
During this 18-month deployment he seized 12 vessels, killed 700 Turks, took 760 slaves, liberated 518
Christians and on one occasion with his five vessels put to flight 20 Ottoman galleys and a galleass and,
on a later occasion, 43 galleys and 2 galleasses. Tuscan chroniclers considered the results magnificent
and impressive. Putting things in perspective, however, the Tuscan cardinal nuncio wrote to the cardinal
secretary of state asserting the prey was insignificant, the slaves were mostly women and children, Tuscan
losses were more than 400, and the vessels had returned in a condition unable to again put to sea. It was
then that Tuscan sailing expeditions ceased. The Knights of Santo Stefano were never again seen in the
Aegean or eastern Mediterranean. Like all war, the cost is more than the reward. Come join us for a sail
at the crossroads of history. Join us aboard a superb Jeanneau Sun Odyssey 45.2 cruising Greece and Turkey.
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