Bruce Farr's Beneteau 50 is a superb cruising yacht.
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information concerning crewed yacht charters cruising Greece and Turkey may be obtained by clicking on
the maroon links immediately above. Thank You. You may be searching for a soul mate, anam
cara in old Irish. If so you might well have come to the right web page for here we are dealing with
an appealing yacht on crewed yacht charter in Turkey or Greece. You may even be considering a crewed yacht
charter in Turkey with soul mates you already have, a cruise along that country's pine-clad and
cove-indented coast. Or you may be dreaming of crewed yacht charters in Greece, of sailing the azure sea
between remote Greek islands. If either, you might like to charter a yacht designed for a small group, one
with three guest cabins each with en suite water closet and shower. Anam Cara, by name. Given a large
salon below decks and an equally large cockpit on deck, the combination is an optimum platform on which to
explore history along the coast of Turkey and among nearby Greek islands. And while exploring history also
basking under a warm sun and swimming in azure seawater. Among those creating history here a bare five
hundred years ago |
were the Barbarossa brothers from what is now
the Greek island of Lesbos a few miles off the
Turkish coast. Lesbos had been taken from Constantinople by Venetians following the Fourth Crusade,
but was retaken by Mehmet The Conqueror in 1462. As was the Ottoman habit Mehmet there settled a number
of janissaries, former Christians conscripted as youngsters into the standing Ottoman army by way
of the janissary schools in Constantinople. One of these was a Greek by then known as Yakup, and
soon after arrival he wed a woman by the name of Catalina, she the widow of a Greek Orthodox priest.
They had six children, four of them boys, all four to become seagoing privateers, two to be known
as Barbarossa because of their auburn hair coloring. The rest is history, though history not without a
glitch. The glitch occurred when Aruj, eldest of the brothers and depicted above, captained a relatively
small galliot across the bow of Our Lady Of The Conception, a red-hulled black-prowed
galley crewed by Hospitaller Knights from Rhodes. The contest was no contest. Aruj became one of
his captor's oarsmen, Elias, next eldest, was killed, and Khizr, then a boy of about fifteen was
imprisoned in Saint Peter's Castle at Bodrum. Aruj was later ransomed thanks to the good offices
of his father's former employer, and fair-haired Khizr talked his way out of prison. Come sail
these waters sailed by Aruj and Khizr, later Kheir-ed-Din, and by Isaac the fourth brother, and by
Sinan of Smyrna who married one of the sisters. Come learn just how Aruj was able to become the
Emir of Algiers and just how Kheir-ed-Din was able to become Suleiman The Magnificent's Lord High
Admiral of the Ottoman fleet. There is too much to that history to recount here. Yes, charter a
sailing yacht to cruise in Barbarossa's wake. Starting in Fethiye. Are you searching for Fethiye in
Turkey? Well, it is about forty-five nautical miles ENE of Rhodes Town and about thirty road miles from
the international airport at Dalaman. In Fethiye we can put you aboard a Beneteau 50 for the
crewed yacht charter of a lifetime. We can put you aboard a charter yacht and show you Elias's path
south from Lesbos and east along the coasts of Caria and Lycia, show you his path back up the coast
of Asia Minor and among Aegean islands to rendezvous with his brothers. Contact Charter Yachts
Turkey today at