This ketch-rigged motor-sailer was formerly named
Blue Piranha.
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in Turkey and Greece. You have found a gulet specializing in holiday cruises between Kusadasi and Marmaris,
Turkey, including Samos, Arki, Patmos, and Kalymnos, all Aegean islands belonging to Greece. Were you
thinking of a charter holiday cruising Turkey or Greece? A charter holiday cruising the crossroads of
history? How about doing both aboard a crewed charter gulet with accommodations for five couples? How
about chartering such a sailing gulet to cruise among offshore islands of Greece? To cruise, for example,
Victoire Pauline de Riquet de Caraman's early 1800's route among those islands? We mention de Caraman's
route because in 1781 at age 17 she married Jean Louis, Vicomte de Vaudreuil, a 1780-1781 veteran of the
American War of Independence. He was with French troops at the Battle of Yorktown at which American
independence became all but assured. But guess what, by her marriage de Caraman became a vicomtesse. An
attractive vicomtesse, too. That's her at left, painted four years after the wedding. But mindful of the
aforementioned guillotine, the vicomte and vicomtesse lost everything but their heads during the French
Revolution, including extensive landholdings in Haiti where yet another revolution took place. Without
much more than a sou to their name they roamed Europe in search of a haven beyond the reach of, first,
the Revolutionary Tribunal, and later, Bonaparte, moving further and further from France as the French
Empire extended its reach. According to one account they had settled in the Galata district of Istanbul
by 1810 while the Ottoman Empire offered the vicomte employment as a military and marine advisor.
It was during the following years that both could occasionally be found sailing the Turkish coast and
among nearby Greek islands then a part of the Ottoman realm. Vicomte de Vaudreuil died a natural death
in 1816, one year after Waterloo, and the vicomtesse returned to Paris where she became a lady in waiting
to Marie Thérèse, the daughter of Marie Antoinette. She never again cruised the Turkish coast and among
Aegean islands of Greece. Would you be interested in cruising in her wake while you holiday at the
crossroads of history? Cruising the wake of Vicomtesse de Vaudreuil aboard the La Vicomtesse? Instructing
some in your family who need instruction in history and geography and nautical science? Would you be
interested in an extended-family holiday aboard a crewed sailing gulet cruising the aptly titled
Turquoise Coast of Turkey? Or in having a group of friends holiday with you aboard a charter gulet
proceeding leisurely from fascinating locale to fascinating locale? Locales at which Cleopatra paused
during her 32 BCE honeymoon with Marc Antony? Ephesus, near Kusadasi, year after year a leading monument
destination for students of ancient history. Samos, home to the Temple of Hera. Patmos to which St. John
the Divine was banished from Ephesus by Emperor Domitian in AD 95 and on which he dictated the Apocalypse.
Kalymnos, today living in the early 20th Century. Ancient Iassos the coinage of which memorializes the
association of boy and dolphin, while the dolphins still abound, playing in the white water of the nearby
Gulf of Gulluk. Knidos which once harbored both Saint Paul and Praxiteles' nude Aphrodite, and many more
destinations the perfect backdrop for history instruction. And for swimming, snorkeling, and kayaking.
Starting in Turkey. Starting at Kusadasi. Are you searching for Kusadasi in Turkey? Kusadasi is about
fifty minutes by road from the international airport at Izmir and about twenty nautical miles from the
Greek island of Samos. In Kusadasi we can put you aboard a crewed sailing gulet for the holiday of a
lifetime. We can put you aboard a charter gulet with an experienced crew able to show you the western and
southwestern coasts of Turkey and the Dodecanese Islands of Greece, able to show you Victoire Pauline de
Riquet de Caraman de Vaudreuil's track through the Aegean, and able to show you as well Cleopatra's 32 BCE
route up these coasts and among the same islands. And we can discuss where both were headed and why. So,
too, can the crew of La Vicomtesse, a fine motor-sailing gulet holiday cruising Turkey and Greece.
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