Amazon Solo is a fully-rigged schooner framed by
craftsmen on the Turkish Black Sea coast from local chestnut and oak, with decking and
superstructure in teak-like iroko and interiors in cedar and Indian walnut. Topside deck space
is uncluttered and spacious. There are sun lounges, sun mattresses, and reclining deck chairs
amidships and forward, while the quarterdeck provides an area for alfresco dining and camaraderie.
There are six well-appointed cabins plus salon and bar. Of the six cabins, one is a master
stern cabin with large double bed and two are triple cabins each with double and single beds.
There are three additional cabins with double beds. Each cabin includes built-in wardrobe, drawer
space, dressing table, and en suite bathroom. All cabins are air-conditioned, cooling
comfortably for an afternoon siesta and for the night.
Equipment:
VHF Radio-Telephone,
Stereo Music System, Television, Fully Equipped Galley, Refrigerators, Deep Freeze,
Dingy with Outboard, Fishing and Snorkeling Gear, Air Conditioning, Windsurfer, Water Skis,
and Kayak
Specifications:
Year Built 2000, Year Refit 2005
Length Over All 105 ft, Length On Deck 90 ft, Beam 23 ft, Draft 9 ft,
Engine 542 hp Caterpillar, Cruising Speed 9 knots
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What follows is intended for search engine robots and spiders and not necessarily for human beings. Further
information concerning schooner cruising in Greece and Turkey may be obtained by clicking on the gray links
immediately above. Thank you. Could you be searching for a schooner cruising Greece and Turkey? Perhaps
for a sailing schooner on Blue Cruise in Turkey and Greece? Are you thinking of a yacht charter in the eastern
Mediterranean? You must have thought of it at some point. Would you like to soon go sailing along the coast of
Turkey? This year? From secluded pine-enshrouded cove to secluded pine-enshrouded cove? Or would you prefer to
sail the azure sea between remote sugar-cube encrusted Greek islands? Or would you like to do both, charter a
schooner cruising both Turkey and Greece? How about cruising both countries aboard a crewed charter schooner
with accommodations for twelve guests? While doing both countries why not begin with a cruise among Greek
islands off the NW coast of Turkey. Why not cruise from Kusadasi on Turkey's ancient Ionian coast out to Greek
Chios, an island with an Homeric history, and from Chios to Lesbos, where the lyric poet Sappho composed her poetry
during the early sixth century BC, and from Lesbos to Lemnos where Jason and the Argonauts encountered Amazons in
about 1275 BC. And where the Argonauts offered those Amazons a lift into the Pontus Euxine or Black Sea where
there was already a substantial community of lady warriors. Lady warriors from the very locale in which Amazon
Solo was laid down and launched. Amazons who one thousand years later were led by their Queen Thalestris in an
approach to Alexander The Great as he marched through ancient Lycia on Turkey's south coast. According to some
sources, Queen Thalestris brought 300 lady warriors to Alexander hoping to breed female children as strong and
intelligent as he. According to written chronicles, Thalestris herself stayed with the Macedonian king for 13
days and nights in hope that the great warrior would father her daughter. Several of Alexander's biographers,
however, dispute this latter claim, among them Plutarch. In his writing Plutarch records an instance in which
Alexander's naval pilot, Onesicritus, is reading the Amazon passage of his own Alexander history to King
Lysimachus of Thrace, a Gentleman of the Bodyguard with Alexander when the Macedonians marched through Asia
Minor. Lysimachus smiles at Onesicritus and says "And where was I, then?" The answer may be that coincident with
Alexander's march through Lycia all of his married veterans, including Gentlemen of the
Bodyguard, were sent back to
Macedonia for the winter. And why else should Alexander have tarried two weeks when he reached
Phaselis! Have you been to the Louvre in
Paris? That grand museum in the Tuileries Gardens? Have you seen the rendering at left depicting the Thalestris
visit? In Lycia's Xanthus Valley? Do you recognize the acropolis in the background? Well, it is the acropolis
at Tlos, and on the near slope of the acropolis hill is the Bellerophon Tomb. It was near Tlos that Bellerophon
at about the time of the aforementioned visit of Argonauts to Lemnos turned back lady warriors from the Black
Sea coast of Turkey. Amazons allied with the Solymi of Termessus near Antalya in an invasion of Lycia.
Thalestris, to Lysimachus's point, is the name of a character in Mary Renault's historical novel The King
Must Die set in the time of the aforementioned Argonauts. It is conceivable that the rendering at left
depicts a Thalestris visit not to Alexander's royal encampment but rather to Bellerophon's royal encampment.
Bellerophon was, after all, co-ruler with King Iobates of the Lycian (Xanthus Valley) dominion being invaded by
Amazons. Would you like to come unravel this mystery? While you holiday? While you holiday with family and
friends. Would you like to have a group of friends holiday with you aboard a crewed sailing schooner cruising
the Lycian coast? Would you like to see the color of the water off Lycia's principal seaport? You should! We
would tell you the color, but the color is indescribable! Would you like to holiday with a group of friends
aboard a charter schooner proceeding leisurely from one historic locale to another historic locale, from one
delightful anchorage to another delightful anchorage? Would you like to charter a sailing schooner to cruise
Greece? To cruise among Aegean islands of Greece? The Sporades Islands of Greece off the Turkish coast?
Would you like to charter a crewed yacht to do all of this? Starting in Kusadasi? Are you searching for
Kusadasi in Turkey? Well, Kusadasi is 60 nautical miles ESE of Chios Town and 12 road miles south of ancient
Ephesus. It is also not very far from the international airport at Izmir. There or elsewhere we can put you
aboard a crewed sailing schooner for the holiday of a lifetime. We can put you aboard a charter schooner with
an experienced crew able to show you the Argonauts track through the Greek Aegean, and to show you Alexander's
Path along the west and south coasts of Turkey to Phaselis. Amazon Solo, a superb crewed schooner
cruising Greece and Turkey. Contact Blue Cruise Yacht Charters today at
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Bodyguard, were sent back to
Macedonia for the winter. And why else should Alexander have tarried two weeks when he reached