Ketch-rigged Aegean Schatz is a re-designed sister
to the original Schatz launched two years earlier.
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You may be dreaming of a yacht charter in the Aegean, perhaps among the mid-Aegean Cyclades. If so,
you might consider the sleek sailing ketch Aegean Schatz, a yacht charter-sailing Greece in style,
cruising one of the world's more popular holiday destinations, 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 Hospitaller Knights of
Rhodes depicted at left cruise among Cyclades islands of the Latin Aegean, islands such as Mykonos,
Paros, and Santorini. 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 cruised
the Aegean and eastern Mediterranean seeking prey in what was otherwise an unfriendly sea. In 1510 a
Knights flotilla under the command of de l'Isle Adam cornered 25 Egyptian sails off Alexandretta, now
Iskenderun, Turkey, 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 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,
Turkey, was named. One small chapter at the crossroads of history. Come sail these crossroads yourself,
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 Venetian empire-builders, enjoy the luxury of a catered
yacht charter in Greece. 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 Cruise Yacht Charters today at