Ketch-rigged Aegean Schatz is a re-designed sister
to the original Schatz launched two years earlier.
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Further information about chartering in Greece's mid-Aegean Cyclades Islands may be obtained by
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charter-sailing Greece. You may be dreaming of a yacht charter in the Aegean, perhaps in the
mid-Aegean Cyclades. If so, you might consider the sleek new ketch Aegean Schatz, a yacht
charter-sailing both Turkey and Greece in style, cruising one of the world's last remaining
tree-fringed coasts, cruising from one sugar-cube encrusted Cyclades island to the next sugar-cube
encrusted Cyclades island. Just |
as in the sixteenth century did the red-hulled, black-prowed, galleys of the Knights of
Rhodes (Hospitallers) depicted at left cruise the coast of Ottoman Turkey and among Cyclades islands
of the Latin Aegean. Sortie-ing from Rhodes Town's middle harbor, these rejoinders to the galleys of
Ottoman corsairs were captained by the likes of Philippe Villiers de l'Isle Adam and Jean Parisot
de la Valette, both to later become Grand Master. Sailing in company and individually they wreaked
havoc in the Aegean and eastern Mediterranean on laden merchantmen bound for Istanbul and Alexandria.
In 1510 a Knights flotilla under the command of de l'Isle Adam cornered 25 Egyptian sails off
Alexandretta, now Iskenderun, there to load timber with which to build Mameluke warships on the Red
Sea. Of the 25 Egyptians, 4 war galleys and 11 merchantmen were captured. Ten others went to the bottom.
Putting their embarked soldiery ashore, the Knights burned the huge store of timber about to be loaded.
One year earlier the 7-deck 100-gun Egyptian carrack Mogarbina bound from Tunis to Istanbul with
a "staggering" consignment of silver, jewelry, silk, cashmere, carpets, and spices, was taken with two
smaller vessels by Jacques de Gatineau, another Hospitaller, in an engagement south of Thira (Santorini)
in the Cyclades. Re-christened Santa Maria, this vessel was to serve the Knights' until 1531.
This the same Gatineau for whom one of the defensive towers protecting St. Peter's Castle in Bodrum was
named. Two small chapters at the
crossroads of history. Come sail these crossroads yourself, breathe the aroma of pine-shrouded coves
dotting Turkey's Turquoise Coast, bask under a warm Cyclades sun after swimming in its azure sea,
join in the search for a perfect tsatziki, climb to an ancient acropolis re-fortified by these same
Knights, enjoy the luxury of a catered yacht charter in Greece and Turkey. Surely this is the holiday
for which you search. Rare comfort under sun at the crossroads of history. Try it! You'll like it!
Aegean Schatz, a superb motor sailing yacht chartering Greece's mid-Aegean Cyclades. Contact Blue
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