The gaff-rigged schooner Memo is a fine example of Turkish
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Another Gaff-Rigged Schooner Sailing In Greece And Turkey A Charter Schooner Holiday Sailing Greece And Turkey A Charter Ketch Holiday Sailing Greece And Turkey This page last updated on 05/09/2008 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 schooner sailing in Greece and Turkey may be obtained by clicking on the maroon links immediately above. Thank You. Are you searching for a schooner holiday sailing Turkey or Greece? That is, are you thinking of a schooner holiday sailing among islands of the Greek and Turkish Aegean? Or could you be dreaming of holiday sailing the Turkish coast? Of a yacht charter along the Turquoise Coast between Bodrum and Antalya? Of a charter in comfort from blue-water cove to blue-water cove? Or are you hoping to sail Greece and Turkey at once? That is entirely possible. How about doing it aboard a gaff-rigged schooner with red sails looking something like a Mediterranean pirate ship. How about doing it aboard a charter schooner with accommodations for seven couples. You might charter this crewed sailing yacht to cruise pirate haunts. To visit the Lycian pirate Zeniketes' first century BC galley hideaway at Phaselis, near Antalya. Or to visit his headquarters at Olympos where as an early Robin Hood he is said to have re-distributed his "earnings." Or to sail Kheir-ed-Din Barbarossa's fifteenth and sixteenth century tracks along the Turkish coasts of both Aeolis and Ionia and among Cyclades islands of the central Aegean. Corsair tracks and Ottoman admiral tracks. Do you not think you might like to holiday at the crossroads of ancient history? At the crossroads of Ottoman history? Of course you would. You might well like to have an extended-family holiday aboard a crewed sailing yacht cruising the Turkish and Greek Aegean. Who wouldn't! Or to have a group of friends or associates holiday aboard a charter gulet proceeding leisurely from one fascinating locale to another. Cruising the Greek Dodecanese. Or the Greek Sporades, including the Greek island of Lesbos where Kheir-ed-din (meaning Defender Of the Faith) was born Khizr, the youngest of four brothers all of whom would take to the sea. The 1470's offspring of a mother formerly wedded to an Orthodox priest and of a Greek or Albanian father conscripted into the Ottoman janissary corps at an early age, the eldest of these sons was Aruj who would in 1516 become Emir of Algiers, the second was Elias who in his early-twenties would fall in combat with the Knights of Rhodes, the third was Isaac who would fall in combat with the Spanish in 1518 when Aruj, too, met his end. Having forded a river near Oran while pursued by a Spanish force of more than 10,000, Aruj re-crossed the river to assist some of his own men there surrounded. And so he fell covered with wounds and was immediately decapitated. The Spanish Catholic chronicler Abbot de Haedo wrote of him in 1612, "Aruj Barbarossa, according to the testimony of those who remember him, was, when he died, about forty-four years of age. He was not very tall of stature, but extremely well-set and robust; his hair and beard perfectly red; his eyes quick, sparkling and lively; his nose aquiline, or Roman, and his complexion between brown and fair. He was a man excessively bold, resolute, daring, magnanimous,enterprising, profusely liberal, and in no wise bloodthirsty, except when in the heat of battle, nor rigorously cruel except when disobeyed. He was highly beloved, feared and respected by his soldiers and domestics, and when dead was by them all in general most bitterly regretted and lamented." It was shortly after the death of Aruj, in 1518, that Khizr began to be known as Kheir-ed-Din Barbarossa, probably so named by Sultan Selim. He would go on to supplant Aruj as Emir of Algiers and eventually to become Sultan Suleiman's Kapudan Pasha or Kaptan-y Derya (supreme naval commander). He died in bed in 1546 after adding to a name, Barbarossa, which still clamors for attention today. Why not begin your holiday starting in Turkey. Starting in Bodrum. Or Gocek. Are you searching for Gocek in Turkey? It is about 42 nautical miles ENE of Rhodes Town. There or elsewhere we can put you aboard a crewed yacht for the sailing holiday of a lifetime. We can put you aboard a charter schooner with an experienced crew able to show you the flat sailing waters of the Gulf of Gocek, able to show you the Gulf of Antalya where Zeniketes lurked in wait for traders connecting silk roads, able to show you Aruj Barbarossa's numerous tracks up the coast of Lycia and among Greek islands, sometimes as a privateer and sometimes as a galley slave of the Knights of Rhodes. And we can also discuss the other brothers, Elias and Isaac and Kheir-ed-Din, not to mention their two sisters. So, too, can the crew of Memo, a fine gaff-rigged schooner available for charter in Turkey and Greece. Contact Charter Yachts Turkey today at charteryachts@gocekturkey.com |
