Distinctive lines and sailing speed define this
popular mid-range yacht.
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Should you alternatively be dreaming of a bare boat holiday cruising Turkey or Greece, well, you have
found an appropriate web page. Are you in fact thinking of a holiday in Turkey? Or could you be
dreaming of a bare boat cruise in Greece? Or of both? Of Greece and Turkey at once? It can be done!
Should either or both of the foregoing be the case, why not holiday aboard a 44-foot charter yacht with
accommodations for family and friends. Why not charter such a yacht to cruise the coasts of ancient
Ionia and Aeolis in Turkey. Why not charter such a yacht to sail the crossroads of history. Why not
charter such a yacht to sail, for example, the Barbarossa brothers' paths out of neighboring Lesbos,
where they were born, through the Greek Sporades and into the central Aegean's Cyclades. While you
holiday at the birthplace of history! While you island hop from Chios to Samos, from Fourni to Naxos
to Paros as did Aruj, eldest of four Barbarossa brothers, and as did Khizr, youngest. Or should you
prefer, holiday cruise the Turquoise Coast of Turkey as did a third brother, Elias, during the latter
years of the fifteenth century. First the Turquoise Coast and then the coasts of Pamphylia and Cilicia.
The offspring of a Greek Orthodox mother and a formerly Orthodox father, these corsair brothers grew to
despise Latin Christians and were for most of their lives to take revenge for the Fourth Crusade sacking
of Greek Constantinople
and Latin occupation of
Greek Aegean islands. They did it not aboard charter yachts proceeding leisurely from clear-blue-sea
locale to clear-blue-sea locale, but rather aboard Mediterranean galliots, small, light, and fast
galleys, twenty-two or fewer oars to a side worked by free men and not by slaves. Those decades at the
close of the fifteenth and turn of the sixteenth centuries were long before the Bermuda rig propelling
your Bavaria 44; you will have no need of oars. The Barbarossa brothers took revenge aboard galliots and
they took revenge on Latin shipping and on Latin-held islands of the Aegean both before and after
Aruj and Khizr ventured into the western Mediterranean. In the western Mediterranean these two were
joined by fourth brother Isaac and the three of them took revenge on Venice and the other city states of
Italy, on their shipping and armadas and coastal towns. As Barlaam of Calabria told Pope Benedict XII
during a 1339 ambassadorial mission on behalf of the Eastern Roman Emperor Andronicus III Palaeologus:
"It is not so much a difference of dogma that turns the hearts of the Greeks against you as the hatred
of the Latins which has entered into their spirit in consequence of the many and great evils which the
Greeks have suffered from the Latins at various times and are still suffering day by day." Would you like
to charter your Bermuda-rigged yacht for more relaxed purposes? In Gocek? Are you searching for Gocek in
Turkey? Located on Turkey's southwestern coast at the head of a gulf twelve miles from open sea, Gocek is
within 25 minutes by road of the international airport at Dalaman. In Gocek or elsewhere we can put you
aboard a bare boat for the holiday cruise of a lifetime. We can put you aboard a bare boat charter yacht
and show you the flat sailing waters of the Gulf of Gocek, show you Elias Barbarossa's path down
the coast of Lycia to Cilicia, and show you Aruj and Khizr's tracks into the Aegean. A superb Bavaria 44
available for holiday cruising in Greece and Turkey. Contact Charter Yachts Turkey today at