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For a memorable sailing holiday the gaff-rigged schooner Alize has unsurpassed aesthetic appeal.
Completed in the spring of 1993, she was designed and skillfully constructed from oak, mahogany, and teak. Refitted in 2003/2004 she is now a tried and tested charter yacht combining excellent sailing with luxurious comfort. Serving a superior Turkish cuisine, Alize is able to accommodate twelve guests for spacious alfresco dining on the aft deck. The dining area is protected by an awning and has additional space for lounging. The foredeck supports an equal number of cushions for sun bathing. The elegant mahogany salon has been done in style and comfort. This space can also seat twenty guests for both dining and lounging. The salon is equipped with bar, refrigerator, ice maker, television, stereo system, and library. Air-conditioned guest cabins are roomy and private, and all have en suite marble-finished water closets. There are two master suites and four cabins with double beds. Each has been carefully crafted in richly colored mahogany with ample drawer and wardrobe space, and each is carpeted.

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This page last updated on 01/01/2008

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 gaff-rigged schooners chartering Greece and Turkey may be obtained by clicking on the gray links immediately above. Thank You. Could you be searching for a gaff-rigged schooner chartering Greece and Turkey? Not likely!!! Most holiday-goers could care a fig leaf for gaff-rigs! If a holiday-goer, you must be searching for a yacht chartering in Greece or Turkey. If not a holiday-goer, you may be searching for a long-lost friend. If the latter you have probably come to the wrong place. Or you may be searching with the French word alize (e accute) meaning trade wind. That being the case you are closer to the mark. This web page deals with the sailing yacht Alize chartering in Greece and Turkey, a large oak-framed wooden yacht sailing on the wind in the Aegean and eastern Mediterranean, a handsome mahogany-appointed schooner chartering Greece and Turkey in the wake of those gone before. Should you be hoping to sail in the wake of earlier oak-framed wooden vessels, you have come to the right place. This page deals with those wakes turning into pine-encircled clear-water coves, passing between sugar-cube encrusted islands. But this page also deals with windsurfing on Greece's azure Aegean. With kayaking along Turkey's Turquoise Coast. With dining alfresco on the deck of your yacht. And with dining alfresco on the stoop of a taverna fronting a caique harbor. Dining on octopus salad. On the perfect octopus salad. How about doing most or all of these things aboard or from a crewed motor-sailer with luxury accommodations for twelve guests? How about chartering a crewed sailing gulet such as Alize? How about beginning your holiday with a cruise along the Turkish coasts of ancient Lycia and Caria? Or with a cruise along the coast of ancient Pamphylia? Or with a cruise in the 10th century wakes created by Leo of Tripoli's galley flotillas speeding up the Turkish coasts of Ionia and Aeolis from Tarsus in Arab Cilicia. Some believe the Turkish word gulet derives from galley. How about sailing those galley wakes while you holiday? While you have an extended-family holiday aboard a crewed sailing yacht cruising these same waters? Or while a group of friends holiday with you aboard a charter yacht proceeding leisurely from one historically and scenically fascinating locale to another? Leo of Tripoli, it might be noted, was an ethnic Greek born in Attaleia, now Antalya, on the southern coast of Anatolia (a Greek word meaning east). Taken hostage by Saracen raiders, Leo of (then Syrian) Tripoli forsook the religion of his parents and converted to Islam. And to piracy. He ravaged the Aegean from 904 to 924 with large fleets of Saracen galleys, devastating merchant sea lanes, calling in where he was least expected, enslaving tens of thousands. Sometimes in the company of Damian of Tyre, a fellow freebooter. Why not charter a sailing yacht to sail in freebooter wakes. To cruise the Dodecanese Islands of Greece. Or the Eastern Sporades where in the year 912 Leo and Damian surprised a Byzantine fleet of dromons (depicted at left) returning from the siege of Crete, sending each and every vessel to the bottom. Why not charter a crewed yacht to cruise further along the coast of Turkey. Into the Sea of Marmara. As did Leo in the year 907 when he sacked the customs station at Abydos and threatened Constantinople itself. Or along the coast of Caria as did Damian during the century's second decade when he besieged ancient Myndos. Starting in Bodrum. Are you searching for Bodrum in Turkey? Well, Bodrum has its own international air port, and in Bodrum or elsewhere we can put you aboard a square-topped gaff-rigged schooner for the holiday of a lifetime. We can put you aboard a charter yacht with an experienced crew able to show you the Ceramic Gulf at Bodrum's front door, able to show you Leo's tracks down the coast of Turkey, to show you Damian's routes up the coast of Turkey and among Greek islands. Alize, a superb schooner chartering Greece and chartering Turkey. Contact Blue Cruise Yacht Charters today at blcryacht@aol.com