Whether you're sitting topside and beating to windward or
relaxing below at anchor, the Bavaria 46 offers a charter crew room to stretch. Topside, the cockpit
has ample seating around a solid, fixed-mount table.
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Further information concerning charter yachts cruising the Turkish coast and Greek islands may be
obtained by clicking on the maroon links immediately above. Thank You. Are you searching for
Bavaria? Well, you've found the wrong web page. Try Munich. Or Germany. Or Otto Wilhelm Luitpold
Adalbert Waldemar Wittelsbach. This web page deals with Bavaria 46 charter yachts cruising the
southwest Turkish coast and among Greek Aegean islands. It does not deal with King Otto nor does
it deal with the Bavaria in Germany where he once reigned, though the Bavaria 46 is built in northern
Bavaria. The Bavaria 46 is a large sloop with accommodations for eight guests wishing to cruise the
Turquoise Coast of Turkey, sailing the crossroads of history from archaeological wonder to
archaeological wonder, or wishing to cruise among Greek islands many crenellated with medieval
fortresses, or wishing to cruise from seaside taverna to seaside taverna pausing along the way to swim
and snorkel the azure Aegean. Are you thinking of a bareboat charter cruising among Greek islands? If
so, you might like to charter a yacht comfortably accommodating a group of eight in four private cabins
three of which have double beds and the other of |
which has over-and-under bunks. There are as well two water closets with shower. Given a large salon
below decks and an equally large cockpit on deck, the result is a near-perfect 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 clear seawater. History such as that made by the Venetian
Pietro Mocenigo in 1472. Venice had obtained its eastern Mediterranean empire upon the Fourth Crusade's
1204 sack of Constantinople and dismemberment of the Byzantine Empire, a shameful chapter of history in
which Venice became "Lord of one-quarter and one-half of one-quarter of the Roman Empire."
Not the least important of its 1204 acquisitions was the large island of Negropont we know today as
Euboea, the lynchpin of Venice's mercantile hegemony in the Aegean. When the Ottoman Sultan Mehmet the
Conqueror took Negropont from the Venetians in 1470 it was the beginning of the end, and the citizens of
Venice knew it. A blanket of gloom settled over the Republic. Out of this gloom sailed Pietro Mocenigo,
captain-general of the Venetian fleet. Joined in the summer of 1472 by a galley squadron dispatched by
Pope Sixtus IV and by King Ferdinand of Naples and joined as well by three vessels sent by the Knights
of Rhodes, Mocenigo with an armada totaling eighty-five fell upon Ottoman shores, leveling Antalya,
Halicarnassus (Bodrum), Smyrna (Izmir), and Gallipoli among many other ports. The effect on Venetian
citizenry was immediate and electric; morale soared and the beginning of the end was obscured. Two years
later Pietro Mocenigo was elected Doge and in 1475 he negotiated a peace with the Ottoman Empire which
further obscured the beginning of the end, an end sealed in 1497 when Vasco da Gama rounded the Cape of
Good Hope and reached India. Charter a sailing yacht to cruise in Pietro Mocenigo's wake! Sail Alexander's
Path down the coast of Asia Minor to Antalya. Cruise Cleopatra's Route along the coasts of ancient Lycia
and Caria and among Greek Aegean islands past Hallicarnassus all the way to Negropont. While you holiday.
While you holiday with family and friends proceeding leisurely from one historically fascinating locale
to another. Yes, charter a yacht to cruise the coast of Turkey and among nearby islands of Greece.
Starting in Gocek. Are you searching for Gocek in Turkey? Well, it is forty-two nautical miles ENE of
Rhodes Town and about twenty kilometers from its own international airport at Dalaman. In Gocek we can
put you aboard a sailing yacht for the holiday of a lifetime. We can put you aboard a Bavaria 46 and
show you Pietro Mocenigo's route east along the coast of Turkey to Antalya and then west and north again
along the coast of Turkey to Gallipoli, and show you as well an incredible variety of history in between.
Contact Charter Yachts Turkey today at