Another Charter Gulet Sailing the Eastern Mediterranean Another Charter Gulet Sailing the Eastern Mediterranean This page last updated on 03/11/2007 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 charter gulet sailing in the eastern Mediterranean may be obtained by clicking on the maroon links immediately above. Thank You. You may be searching for Federico Fellini. If so, you have come to the wrong place. You may be searching for Anita Ekberg. Or for Anouk Aimee. Similarly, then, you have come to the wrong place. But should you be searching for Marcello Mastroianni's elusive sweet life, you have found what he (cinematically) did not. You have found a charter gulet sailing the eastern Mediterranean. You have found an accommodating wooden sailing yacht exploring the back bays of Turkey's Turquoise Coast. You have found a well-appointed vessel in which to cruise from one Greek island to the next Greek island forever in pursuit of the perfect octopus salad. Or merely in pursuit of the next Greek island. Marcello Mastroianni sailed this same coast before it obtained the appellation "Turquoise." And with Flora Carabella, his wife of 48 years, he sailed among these same Greek islands. So, too, did Cigalazade Yusuf Sinan Pasha. Born Scipione Cicala, Sinan Pasha was the son of Vincenzo Cicala, an Italian galley captain from Genoa who became a flotilla commander in service to the king of Spain. It was in such service that the elder Cicala in 1561 encountered at sea three galleys commanded by Uluc Ali (or Occhiali, later known as Kilic Ali, "The Sword," also Italian) and with his son Scipione was taken prisoner. The sixteen year old son some weeks later renounced Christianity in order to save his father's life. Sent on to janissary college in Constantinople he in short order rose to become janissary agha or commander of the corps of janissaries, the Ottoman Empire's standing army. As Cigalazade Yusuf Sinan Pasha he was to follow both janissary command and the aforementioned Uluc Ali as Kapudan Pasha or Lord High Admiral of the Ottoman Navy. It was in this capacity that he sailed the Turquoise Coast and among Aegean islands, and it was in this capacity that he presided over the beginning of the end for galleys and the advent of the age of sail with large square-rigged galleons carrying up to one hundred guns. So, yes, you have found a charter gulet sailing the eastern Mediterranean as did Sinan Pasha's galleons. You have found a ketch-rigged lady of the sea sailing secluded pine-encircled blue-water coves on the southwest coast of Turkey and among Dodecanese pastel and Cycladic blue and white dotted Greek islands of the Aegean. You have found the sweet life. How about enjoying this sweet life aboard an oak-framed, mahogany-planked, teak-decked yacht with accommodations for five couples. How about beginning your charter sail with a cruise along the coast of ancient Lycia, a part of the Turquoise Coast featuring coves and beaches backed by sharply rising mountains. Or begin your charter of this elegant ketch with a sail along the coast of neighboring Caria and among Greek Dodecanese islands. All the while exploring these crossroads of history while you holiday. That's right, have a family-and-friends holiday aboard a crewed charter gulet sailing eastern Mediterranean history. Have a group of friends or associates holiday aboard a charter gulet proceeding under sail from one memorable locale to another. Starting in Bodrum. Or Gocek. Are you searching for Gocek in Turkey? Well, it's about 110 nautical miles ESE of Bodrum and about 20 road miles from the international airport at Dalaman. At Gocek or Bodrum or elsewhere we can put you aboard a charter gulet sailing the eastern Mediterranean for the holiday of a lifetime. We can put you aboard a ketch-rigged wooden yacht with an experienced crew able to show you the flat sailing waters of the Gulf of Gocek, able to show you Cigalazade Yusuf Sinan Pasha's tracks up the coasts of Lycia and Caria and among Greek islands then recently liberated from Italian dominion. Dolce Vita, a superb lady of the sea available for charter in Turkey and Greece. Contact Charter Yachts Turkey today at cytcharter@aol.com |
