This sleek wooden schooner
Accommodations for guests
A comfortable salon and adjoining navigation station open to the quarterdeck.
Luxury Sailing Yacht Charters In Turkey And Greece More Yacht Charters In Turkey And Greece More Yacht Charters In Turkey And Greece More Yacht Charters In Turkey And Greece This page last updated on 04/30/2008 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 yacht charters in Turkey and Greece may be obtained by clicking on the maroon links immediately above. Thank You. You may be searching for yacht charters in Greece. Or for crewed yacht charters along the Turquoise Coast of Turkey. You are probably not searching for George Herman Ruth, Jr., or for Alessandro Zambeccari. More likely you are dreaming of a Blue Cruise. Or of Cleopatra's honeymoon route up the coast of Asia Minor and among its offshore islands. Perhaps on your own honeymoon or honeymoon anniversary. Yes, it is certainly more likely you are here to charter a yacht in Turkey or Greece, even were it not your honeymoon or honeymoon anniversary, but honeymoon or not perhaps pausing at a number of the ports and bays which provided respite for Cleopatra's oarsmen. Places such as Phaselis in the Gulf of Antalya where Alexander had paused 300 years earlier, and which today features a magnificent arched aquaduct erected about the time of Cleopatra's visit. You might pause, too, at Andriake where Saint Paul transshipped almost one hundred years after Cleopatra's visit. Transshipped while a prisoner en route to Rome. There you might visit an immense granary dedicated in the second century AD to Roman Emperors Trajan and Hadrian of Pax Romana fame, a granary yet standing to its roof with its dedication still readable. Assuming, that is, you read Latin. Later you might pause at Patara to inspect the lighthouse which guided Cleopatra, Saint Paul, and thousands of others in from the sea. The lighthouse behind Patara's magnificent white sand beach. Further west you might call in at Rhodes Town, as did Cleopatra, because Rhodes Town now features in near perfection a medieval walled city constructed by the Knights Hospitallers of Jerusalem, then the Knights of Rhodes, later and still the Knights of Malta. Which brings us to Alessandro Zambeccari, a Hospitaller. Zambeccari was a Hospitaller frequently in naval service to the Vatican and always at war with Ottoman corsairs. For such service he was in 1639 named (catholic) Prior of (protestant) England, one of seven Hospitaller priories and one at the time with little or no utility. Do you already plan to holiday in Greece or Turkey? Or both? Would you like to holiday aboard a yacht chartered in Turkey and cruising to Greece? Would you like to charter a crewed yacht to cruise the Aegean from Bodrum? Bodrum, then called St. Peters, is where these same Hospitallers built themselves a castle which today is in perfect condition. In 1646 Zambeccari appeared in the Aegean flying the Hospitaller's white cross on blood-red field, trapping and destroying an Ottoman naval squadron off western Crete. But you might prefer to charter from Gocek in the eastern Mediterranean. Visiting Cleopatra's Bay eight miles from Gocek. The same bay in which she found safe harbor in 32 BC while honeymooning with Antony and his galley fleet of several hundred. Are you searching for Gocek in Turkey? Well, it is 42 nautical miles ENE of Rhodes Town. In Gocek you may come aboard Ruth Alessandro, a charter yacht offering a holiday par excellence. You may come aboard a charter yacht with an experienced crew able to show you the Dodecanese islands of Greece and Cleopatra's route up the Turkish coast past Bodrum all the way to Samos. A proper crewed yacht available for charter in Greece and Turkey. Oh, George Herman Ruth, Jr.? Born in 1895, he was the son of George Herman Ruth, Sr., a tavern keeper in Baltimore, Maryland. He was also the Babe, a baseball pitcher winning 23 games for the Boston Red Sox in 1916, winning 24 more the following year. He was, moreover, the Sultan of Swat, a 60 home-run hitter for the New York Yankees in 1927, hitting 654 more home runs in the other 21 years of his major league career. George Herman Ruth, Jr., was the greatest baseball player of all time. To discuss these bits of history or to arrange for yacht charters in Turkey and Greece contact Charter Yachts Turkey today at charteryachts@gocekturkey.com. |
