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Further information concerning charter holidays sailing Turkey and Greece may be obtained by clicking
on the maroon links immediately above. Thank You. Are you searching for a sailing yacht on which
to have a family or friends holiday? Could you be dreaming of a bare boat charter holiday along the
cove-indented pine-clad coast of Turkey? Could you be dreaming of sailing from one quaint seaside town
with bazaar to the next quaint seaside town with bazaar? Pausing at the white-sand beach in between?
Or are you dreaming of a bare boat charter holiday in Greece? Of sailing from one snow-white
blue-shuttered island town nourishing potted geraniums to the next snow-white blue-shuttered town
supporting miles of bougainvillea? In pursuit of the perfect tzatiki? Or is it both Turkey and
Greece of which you are dreaming? How about realizing your dream aboard a charter yacht with
accommodations for six? With room for you two and two other like-minded couples. How about chartering a
sailing yacht to cruise Turkey's ancient Lycia, home to Homer's Trojan allies. Or to sail Cleopatra's
Route along the coast of neighboring Caria and among Greek Aegean islands once dominated by those same
Carians. While you enjoy bazaars and potted geraniums. Would you like to have such a holiday cruising
here, the forepart called the Turquoise Coast? At the crossroads of history? Surely you would like
to holiday aboard a charter yacht proceeding leisurely from enchanting locale to historical waypoint.
Who wouldn't! Cruising, as well, the other way. Further along the Mediterranean coast of Turkey. As did
Mathurin d’Aux de Lescout, a Hospitaller Knight of St. John of Jerusalem popularly known as Romegas.
Reputed to have been one of the foremost seamen in Knight's history, Romegas during the sixteenth century
often plied the Turquoise Coast and offshore islands
now a part of Greece. And while your excursion might begin in Gocek, Romegas commenced his outings from
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Grand Harbor at Malta. Born in 1528 near
the Gascon village of La Romieu in SW France, Romegas was at the age of 18 inducted into the Order then
known as the Knights of Malta. At 19 he cruised the Turquoise Coast as a junior officer aboard one of
the Order's war galleys interdicting Turkish commerce. That year his galley returned to Malta in
late-Fall loaded with captured merchandise. By 1557 Romegas had acquired and equipped his own galliot
(small galley) and was raiding along the Turquoise Coast for his own account. He had, in short, become
a Christian corsair though still cloaked in the white-crossed scarlet vestment of a Knight of Malta.
That July he returned to Malta with two large Turkish merchantmen in tow. Following a year of combat
with Dragut in Tunisian waters and another during which he engaged Hassan Barbarossa off the coast of
Sicily, Aux de Lescout or Romegas was dispatched to the Turkish island of Rhodes to obtain information
on Ottoman fleet dispositions and to sow unrest among the island's Greek population. A year later in
1561 he was back again, this time plundering the Karamanian part of the Turkish coast east of Antalya.
There he took a large merchantman bound from Alexandria to Constantinople with a cargo valued in excess
of 100,000 gold ducats and, in addition, carrying two ambassadors to the Ottoman Porte. The ransom for
these unfortunates, however, was never received.
There is much more to the story of Romegas, too much more to be told here. But join us at Gocek in
Turkey and we will relate the rest, including the incident in Malta's Grand Harbor when his galley was
overturned during a storm. With Romegas and the ship's simian mascot trapped inside. Are you looking
for Gocek on the map? Well, it is in the NW corner of the Gulf of Fethiye 42 nautical miles ENE of
Rhodes Town and 15 road miles from the international airport at Dalaman. There we can put you aboard a
bare boat for the odyssey of a lifetime. We can put you aboard a charter yacht and point you toward the
flat sailing waters of the Gulfs of Gocek and Fethiye, show you Aux de Lescout's paths down the coast
of Lycia and his routes back up the coast of Turkey and among islands now Greek. A superb Jeanneau
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