A Smaller Charter Yacht Holiday Sailing Greece And Turkey This page last updated on 04/14/2007 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 holiday sailing in Greece and Turkey may be obtained by clicking on the maroon links immediately above. Thank You. Given the title of this web page, you must be searching for a yacht charter holiday in Turkey or Greece. You are perhaps dreaming of a cruise along Turkey's Lycian Shore, of sailing in the wake of the intrepid Freya Stark. Or more probably you are considering a honeymoon cruise along that same coast tracing the honeymoon route of Cleopatra. Or possibly you are contemplating exploration of the Turkish coast, ducking into its gulfs and bays as did Francis Beaufort. Alternatively you may be looking forward to a cruise among Greek islands, a hop from one Aegean island to another, picking up the track of Hassan Reis. You may even be thinking of doing these things aboard a motor-sailing gulet. A gulet sufficiently large to accommodate your extraordinarily large family. Maybe your corporate family. You are perhaps considering a gulet because gulets sail on an even keel, wind or no wind. You might consider Flas VII, a teak and mahogany ketch-rigged vessel 108-feet in length, including bowsprit, unlikely to be disturbed by a summer sea. You may know that the bowsprit is where these vessels carry a dolphin striker, but you're not interested in striking dolphins; you would rather watch dolphins swim back and forth under the bow. As a fellow-mammal you might even wish to swim with dolphins. If so, direct your skipper to Turkey's Gulf of Gulluk and to ancient Iasus at its head. Iasus coinage depicted the boy on a dolphin, and the dolphins are still there. From Iasus you might easily pick up those aforementioned tracks. Freya Stark in 1952 came south from Cesme through nearby Greek islands before picking up the Lycian Shore. In fact, more than half of her Lycian Shore deals not with the Lycian Shore but with Greek islands and the coast of Caria. Cleopatra also passed nearby in 32 BC, en route from Kos to Ephesus with four treasure barges. And with Marc Antony. Francis Beaufort, too, sailed by in 1811 on his way to charting the Carian and Lycian coasts. And on his way to refining the wind and sea scale we use today. As for Hassan Reis, better known as Hassan Barbarossa, son of Kheir-ed-Din Barbarossa and like his father to later become beylerbey of Algiers, he cruised these waters from 1535 to 1544 and again in 1571, raiding Latin Christian shipping and calling on his Orthodox Christian grandmother Catalina in Lesbos. Let us put you aboard a crewed sailing yacht for the vacation of a lifetime. Let us put you aboard Flas VII, a charter yacht with an experienced crew able to show you these and many more wakes and tracks at the crossroads of history, including those of Hassan Barbarossa son of Hassan Barbarossa and great-grandson of Catalina who cruised these waters in 1572 and 1573. Flas VII offering a charter-yacht holiday sailing Greece and Turkey. Contact Charter Yachts Turkey today at charteryachts@gocekturkey.com |
