This classic Irwin 52 is a fine example of a crewed
sailing yacht.
Andrea's interior is warm and welcoming. Bulkheads are polished veneer, furnishings are teak, while floorboards are teak and holly. An after master cabin is large by yacht standards with queen bed, dressing table, settee, and en-suite water closet. There are two additional cabins forward with a second water closet. The forepeak cabin is a double berth and includes a vanity unit. A starboard cabin has tiered berths. There are separate crew quarters. All spaces are air conditioned and have opening hatches with sun and insect screens. The galley and salon are amidships and roomy. The dining table seats eight while the galley is fully equipped with grill and oven as well as refrigerator with ice making capability.
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is intended for search engine robots and spiders and not necessarily for human beings. Further information
concerning crewed sailing yacht charters in Greece, Turkey, and Croatia may be obtained by clicking on the
gray links immediately above. Thank You. You may be searching for the Tuscan-born singer Andrea
Bocelli. You hear his rendition of Il Mare Calmo Della Sera each time you gaze at the sea, or each
time you dream of yacht charters in the eastern Mediterranean, of yacht charters in Greece, Turkey, and
Croatia. Well, you may have come to the right place even though this is not a Bocelli web page. Neither is
this a web page dealing more than superficially with the Genovese condottiere Andrea Doria, the condottiere
or mercenary soldier once a papal guard and later a cavalry commander before becoming an admiral. This web
page deals with yacht charters in Greece, with yacht charters in Turkey, and with yacht charters in Croatia
and Montenegro. These countries border the eastern Mediterranean, if, that is, the Adriatic may be considered
an arm of the eastern Mediterranean, and it is in the eastern Mediterranean that the 56-foot ketch-rigged
sailing yacht Andrea may be found catering holidays and honeymoons. While this web page is that of the
sailing yacht Andrea and not that of the condottiere Andrea Doria (depicted below at left), it was through
the eastern Mediterranean
that the latter passed in 1495. By then a 29-year old veteran of the war between the French and the Aragonese
over the Kingdom of Naples, that year il mare was mostly calmo. Doria sailed to the Holy Land from Sicily,
crossing below Italy's boot to the Ionian Sea and sailing around the Venetian Morea, the modern Peloponnesus
of Greece, across the Aegean then mostly Venetian, pausing at Rhodes and sailing on probably to Alexandria in
Egypt. The Holy Land in 1495 was ruled by Qa'it Bey, the Circassian Mameluke Sultan of both Egypt and Syria
and a patron of the arts and commerce then temporarily favoring Italian mercantile interests. The
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mercantile houses in 1495 used Rhodes as a way point, and Qa'it
Bey for that reason was also temporarily at peace with the Knights of Rhodes. The Knights, for their part,
were principally concerned with seemingly relentless expansion of the Turkish Ottoman Empire which by 1517
was to consume the entire Mameluke Sultanate and five years later the island of Rhodes, as well. Doria made a
pilgrimage through Palestine to Jerusalem in the year of his crossing and was subsequently "received" by the
Knights of Rhodes. The meaning of the word "received" is in this instance not entirely clear but Doria did
lead a seemingly chaste life as required by the Order until his marriage at age 61. While at Rhodes Doria may
have served aboard one of the Order's fast red-hulled black-prowed galleys in combat with corsairs hovering
along the coast of Turkey and among Venetian islands of the Aegean, but insofar as history is concerned there
is no recorded instance of Andrea Doria in