Prenses Funda has been refitted. The two after cabins depicted are now one. Another Gaff-Rigged Schooner Offering Charter Holidays In Turkey And Greece A Fore-And-Aft-Rigged Schooner Offering Charter Holidays In Turkey And Greece This page last updated on 01/24/2009 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 holidays in Turkey and Greece may be obtained by clicking on the maroon links immediately above. Thank You. If you are not searching for Turkish heather, the meaning of funda, and If you are not searching for Princess Heather or for a fun princess, then you must be searching for a charter holiday in Turkey or Greece. In any of these events you have found what you seek. Which is it? A fun princess? The charter gulet Prenses Funda? A charter holiday along slopes of heath and heather? A charter holiday in Turkey? A charter holiday in Greece? Or could it be a charter holiday in both Turkey and Greece aboard Prenses Funda? Again, in any of these events you have found the right web page, a web page dealing with fun charter holidays both along heathered coasts of Turkey as well as among Aegean islands of Greece. With Blue Cruises along Turkey's Turquoise Coast pausing in pine and heather shrouded coves. A web page dealing with sailing from off-the-beaten-track Greek island to off-the-beaten-track Greek island. A web page dealing with basking under a warm sun while floating on an azure sea. With a visit to the crossroads of history. With any or all of the above aboard a crewed charter gulet having accommodations for five couples. You might charter Prenses Funda to cruise that part of the Turkish Aegean coast which was ancient Ionia. To sail Sinan Reis's sixteenth century tracks along that coast and among Aegean islands then Venetian. Hunting the Venetian fleet of Andrea Doria. Or was it the Genovese fleet? A Genovese, Doria at various times commanded one or the other or both. So too did Andrea Doria's nephew Giovanetto Doria, and his grandnephew Giovanni Doria. But it was only the former who played hide and seek with the wily Sinan. Thought to have been a refugee expelled in 1492 from Spain with other Jews, Sinan learned his sailing on the Imbat while dodging sand banks in the Gulf of Smyrna, heart of ancient Ionia. Why not cruise in Sinan's wake while holidaying on an azure sea? Why not combine holiday and history? Why not have an extended-family holiday aboard a crewed sailing gulet cruising the Dodecanese Islands of Greece? With children and cousins and the like? Or have a group of friends holiday with you aboard a charter gulet proceeding leisurely from here to there. Or from there to here. Why not charter a crewed gulet to cruise the near Dodecanese in order to reach the far Cyclades? Starting in Turkey? Starting in Izmir? Are you searching for Izmir in Turkey? Well, it's about thirty-five miles up the Gulf of Smyrna. In fact, it was Smyrna until the last of the Greeks were expelled eighty years ago. Izmir or Smyrna or elsewhere we can put you aboard a crewed gulet for charter holidays of a lifetime. We can put you aboard a charter gulet with an experienced crew able to show you the entire coast of Turkey, to show you the haunts, some say pirate haunts, of Sinan and his fellow sea captains, including the Barbarossa brothers. This Sinan, by the way, was not one of the Sinans who later became Kapudan Pasha or Lord High Admiral of the Ottoman Navy. The first of the latter was Sinan Pasha, an Albanian and brother of Grand Vizier Rustem Pasha, and the second was Cigalazade Yusuf Sinan Pasha, an Italian from Messina. These later Sinans were the Sinans opposing Giovanetto Doria and Giovanni Doria. The crew of Prenses Funda is able to discuss each of these Sinans and Dorias, who they were, where they sailed, and how they found a place at the crossroads of history. Prenses Funda, a fine gulet available for charter in Turkey or Greece. Contact Charter Yachts Turkey today at charteryachts@gocekturkey.com |
