Charter Yachts Turkey

The Bavaria 31 reinforces Bavaria Yacht’s reputation for building yachts with truly aesthetic lines,
but it doesn’t stop there. Above deck, the cockpit has teak seats and deck and a teak folding table with storage beneath. An electric transom step provides access to a teak-covered swimming platform. All sheets and halyards are led to the cockpit for easy sail handling. The interior features a large salon with deck skylights and fixed hull ports illuminating light-hued varnished mahogany woodwork.
Natural cross ventilation is achieved by the placement of numerous opening ports and hatches.
The Bavaria 31 is a classic combination of performance and comfort.

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 charter sailing in Turkey and Greece may be obtained by clicking on the maroon links immediately above. Thank You. Could you be dreaming of a family holiday charter sailing Turkey or Greece? Could you be fantasizing about charter sailing the pine-clad cove-indented coast of Turkey? Could you be hoping to charter sail with friends the azure sea among remote islands of Greece? Chasing the perfect octopus salad! Why not do one or the other or both aboard a 32-foot charter yacht with accommodations for four, family or friends. Why not charter such a yacht to cruise the coasts of ancient Caria and Lycia in Turkey. Why not charter such a yacht to sail Iacopo Inghirami's paths crisscrossing the Aegean and along the eastern Mediterranean coast of southern Turkey. While you holiday at the crossroads of history! While you island hop from Kos to Rhodes by way of Nisiros, Tilos, Khalki, and Simi, while you island hop from Rhodes to Kastellorizon to ancient Pamphylia as did Inghirami, one of the finer sea commanders in Mediterranean history. Or might you prefer to holiday cruising the western coast of Turkey as did Inghirami during the early years of the seventeenth century? First the Aegean and then the coasts of Turkey. Born in Volterra, Tuscany, circa 1565, Iacopo (Yacopo) Inghirami came from a family of Renaissance scholars and Roman Catholic prelates. He began professional life, however, as a condottiere in service to the French anti-Protestant league, but in 1596 became a knight of the Medici family's Order of Santo Stefano and obtained command of a war galley like that depicted at left. Like the Hospitaller Knights of Malta and the earlier Knights Templar, the Knights of Santo Stefano were dedicated to stemming the spread of Islam in the Mediterranean basin. From his first command until his death in 1624 Inghirami was to prove himself a scourge of Islam, meeting with success on virtually every outing. In May of 1602 he ran down near Samos Turkish capitanas (flagships) from Alexandria and Stanchio (Kos), taking these two and a third vessel in a single engagement. Eleven years later he returned to occupy Port St. Paul and the mainland peninsula opposite Samos. In April of 1606 he took three Turkish warships between Karpathos and Rhodes. Two months later he took the fortress at Finike just east of Kekova Roads and burned it to the ground. In May of 1612 he took the fortress at Kormen in the Gulf of Kos, and in April of 1616 near Kastellorizon defeated a Turkish flotilla under the Governor of Rhodes, Amurat Reis. Two months later he was made Marquis of Montegiovi (in Tuscany), and in the following Spring was introduced to the telescope by Galileo Galilei. In perhaps his only failure, Inghirami in April of 1621 unsuccessfully besieged the fortress at Kale in Kekova Roads, turned away by Ottoman defenders manning those stout walls. Later that month he seized Bukses guarding sea approaches to the Xanthos Valley, destroying the fortress there and capturing an enormous amount of war material. Iacopo Inghirami died of natural causes in 1624, said by one of his many admirers to have been "A proud man of war." Certainly, but a search of the internet shows that it is the scholars and prelates of his family who are remembered today, not the man of war. Just so Galileo and his telescope, not Inghirami and his telescope. So come charter sailing in Turkey and Greece aboard a Bavaria 31 and ponder this anecdote and its significance, if any. Come charter sailing from Gocek. Are you searching for Gocek in Turkey? Well, Gocek is 42 nautical miles ENE of Rhodes Town and within a half-hour by road of the international airport at Dalaman. In Gocek or elsewhere we can put you aboard a bare boat for the holiday of a lifetime. We can put you aboard a Bavaria 31 charter yacht and show you the flat sailing waters of the Gulf of Gocek, show you Iacopo Inghirami's several paths down the coasts of Caria and Lycia to Pamphylia and beyond, show you his similar routes west and north to Kormen and Samos. A superb Bavaria 31 available for charter sailing in Greece and Turkey. Contact Charter Yachts Turkey today at charteryachts@gocekturkey.com