Flas VII is thirty-three meters in overall length with deck
space to match.
A Five-Cabin Gulet Sailing Greece and Turkey An Eight-Cabin Gulet Sailing Greece and Turkey A Nine-Cabin Gulet Sailing Greece and Turkey An Eleven-Cabin Gulet Sailing Greece and Turkey Charter Yachts Turkey Home Page This page last updated on 01/28/2012 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 large gulet 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 large yacht sailing Turkey
or Greece or both. You are perhaps |
dreaming of a cruise along Turkey's
Lycian shore, of sailing in the wake of Britain's intrepid explorer Freya Stark. That's her at left. Or possibly
you are considering a cruise along that same coast tracing 46 BC and 32 BC routes of Cleopatra VII Philopater,
last of Egypt's Ptolemy pharaohs. Or maybe you are contemplating exploration of the Turkish coast and offshore
Greek islands, ducking into gulfs, bays, and coves as did Francis Beaufort (depicted below), naval officer, cartographer
extraordinaire, and developer of the Beaufort Scale of wind and sea states. Alternatively it is remotely
possible you wish to sail in the wake of Hassan Reis, an Ottoman sea captain and loving grandson. But most
probably you are looking forward to a cruise among Greek islands and along the coast of Asia Minor, hopping from
Aegean island to mainland waypoint, picking up the tracks of Paul of Tarsus left in his journeys to and from
Greece and from the Middle East to Rome. You may even be thinking of doing these things aboard a motor-sailing
gulet, gulet the Turkish word for large motor-sailer with a rounded or squared stern as opposed the
pointed-stern caique, a gulet sufficiently large to accommodate your extraordinarily large group. Maybe
your corporate family. Maybe a part of your church congregation. Even a bridge club composed of fairly bright
individuals interested in broadening their horizons. You are perhaps considering a gulet because gulets sail on
an even keel, wind or no wind. You might therefore consider Flas VII, a teak and mahogany ketch-rigged vessel
110-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. That can be done from Flas VII's bowsprit. 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 a 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,
Lycia's neighbor to the northwest. Cleopatra also passed this way, in 46 BC en route to Rome to plead Egypt's
case before the Senate. At age 22. In 32 BC she again came along the Lycian coast, turning north at Greek Kos
headed for Ephesus. With four treasure barges. And with Marc Antony who was shortly to appear briefly at Actium.
Francis Beaufort sailed by in 1811 on his way to charting the Carian and Lycian coasts as well as several nearby
islands. And on his way to refining the Beaufort 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, in
the early years, calling on his Orthodox Christian grandmother Katerina in Lesbos. Or dropping by the Bodrum
Peninsula home of his father-in-law Turgut Reis, known in the west as Dragut. Let us put you aboard a crewed
sailing yacht for the vacation of a lifetime. Let us put you aboard Flas VII, a charter gulet 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 Katerina who cruised these waters in
1572 and 1573. Flas VII offering a large gulet holiday sailing Greece and Turkey. Contact Charter Yachts
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