Alternative Double-Ender Charter In Turkey And Greece Alternative Tirhandil Charter In Turkey And Greece Another Sailing Yacht On Charter In Turkey And Greece Return to Motor-Sailer Summary This page last updated on 03/16/2007 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 caique charters in Turkey and Greece may be obtained by clicking on the blue links immediately above. Thank You. Could you be searching for a colorful Greek caique on which to sail the Aegean? In comfort? At a reasonable price? They don't exist!!! There is no such thing. But there is a substitute, a Turkish caique called a tirhandil. Not Greek and not so colorful. In fact, not colorful at all. But comfortable, aesthetically pleasing, and available at a reasonable price. So you have found the right web page, the web page best fitting your search term. Are you dreaming of island-hopping across the Greek Aegean? Of island- hopping from sugar-cube encrusted Mykonos to sugar-cube encrusted Paros? Of island-hopping from the mid-Aegean Cyclades to the eastern Aegean Dodecanese and Sporades? You can do these things in comfort aboard a Turkish-flag tirhandil. You can also sail the Aegean coast of Turkey, a part of the Blue Cruise which continues along the Mediterranean coast of Turkey. Were you thinking of a Blue Cruise along the Turkish coast? Are you now thinking perhaps of a tirhandil charter along the coast of Asia Minor? One meandering from pine-encircled clear-water cove to pine-encircled clear-water cove? Or are you now hoping to do both on a single holiday or on your honeymoon? Well, both can be done! You may do all of the above aboard Tirhandila! You might begin in Bodrum, not far from the birthplace of Turgut Reis. Son of a Greek mother and a father of unknown pedigree likely Greek, as well, and better known as Dragut, Turgut sailed the coast of ancient Caria, cruising from the Aegean to the eastern Mediterranean and back in search of other shipping. You might do it to get away from others, sailing from Bodrum to Knidos to Datca and then jumping off to the Greek island of Simi. From Simi you might continue on to Rhodes, the Greek island once controlled by Knights Hospitaller who constructed the grand fortifications which today surround Rhodes Town. And who were often encountered by Turgut in his search for other shipping. You might do this on your honeymoon. Retrace Cleopatra's Honeymoon Route along the coast of Caria and among Greek Dodecanese islands. Not on your honeymoon! Well, you might like to have an intimate holiday anyway! Aboard a crewed sailing yacht cruising the Turquoise Coast of Turkey, jumping off to the occasional Greek island. As you may realize already, Turgut was a corsair. That was early on, in the 1530's as a lieutenant of the younger Barbarossa brother. Later he was an Ottoman admiral and participated in the siege of Malta. Malta was then controlled by those same, detested, Knights Hospitaller. Should you sail north from Bodrum rather than east you might eventually come to Lesbos. Lesbos was the birthplace of Kheir-ed-Din, the younger Barbarossa, another son of a Greek mother, Catalina was her name, and of a Greek or Albanian father retired from Sultan Mehmet's janissaries. Kheir-ed-Din was a ladies man, among other characteristics. Did you know he attempted in 1535 to kidnap Giulia Gonzaga then known as the most beautiful woman in Italy? He failed only because she escaped bare on a barebacked stallion in the middle of the night. Did you know that in his sixties Kheir-ed-Din did kidnap and marry another Italian beauty? And that following the wedding they honeymooned through the Cyclades? Well, we can put you aboard a crewed tirhandil for the holiday or honeymoon of a lifetime. We can put you aboard a double-ended caique with an experienced crew able to show you Turgut's paths up and down the coast of Turkey, able to show you Barbarossa's routes through the Greek Aegean from Lesbos to Mykonos and Paros. Tirhandila, a superb sailing caique on charter in Turkey and Greece. Contact Blue Cruise Yacht Charters today at bcycharter@aol.com |
