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Whichever the two, you have found a U.S.-flag luxury yacht on charter cruise in the Aegean and eastern
Mediterranean, a luxury yacht cruising between isolated blue-water coves surrounded by Calabrian pine
along Turkey's southwest coast and among sparsely-populated Dodecanese and remote Cyclades islands of
Greece. A luxury yacht cruising from village bazaar to archaeological wonder, from Dodecanese pastel to
Cycladic blue-and-white, from lamb kabob to sixty-four varieties of patlican meze, from grilled
octopus to seafood pasta. Can you imagine anything more wonderful? The turquoise sea off Turkey's sand
beaches? The azure sea of a Greek island cove surrounded by nothing at all? A cruise from here to there,
or from there to here? A cruise from Mykonos to Paros to Santorini? |
A cruise at the crossroads of history. A cruise replicating corsair tracks
in the mid-Aegean, for example, sixteenth century wakes left by the Barbarossa brothers and by their
contemporary Turgut Reis. But replications not incurring the wrath those pirates engendered, but rather
partaking of a hospitality which might have been theirs had they not plundered and enslaved and murdered
right and left. How about cruising the Aegean aboard a luxury charter yacht with exclusive accommodations
for eight guests in four luxuriously appointed cabins. Sailing along Turgut's (Dragut's) tracks from
Latin-occupied Greek island to Latin-occupied Greek island. While you holiday. While you have a holiday
with friends or family. Turgut was born by another name on the coast of southwest Turkey in about 1485 of
a Greek mother and a father of unknown pedigree. Inducted into the Ottoman standing army at the customary
age of twelve, he subsequently became expert in laying cannon fire and fluent in Arabic, and about six
years later was dispatched with others to Mamluk Egypt then threatened by Persian expansion. While details
of his Egyptian experience are lost to history, in Alexandria he came to the attention of a corsair, Sinan
of Smyrna. A future brother-in-law of the Barbarossas, it was from Sinan he learned sailing skills and to whom
he imparted his knowledge of artillery. Sinan was to be his mentor and companion for the next two or three
years. By 1505 or 1506 Turgut had earned enough from piracy to build and equip his own galliot (small galley)
and with it was raiding the Venetian Aegean, including the aforementioned islands. During the years to come
his single galliot was complemented by more than a dozen others, one captained by his younger brother, and
by 1520 he had taken his plundering to the western Mediterranean where he pillaged and burned along the
Italian boot and among the islands of Sicily, Sardinia, and Corsica to mention the largest. In consequence
of his depredations he was the subject of numerous retaliatory expeditions, many led by the Genovese
condottiere Andrea Doria whom he outwitted more often than not. One of the "nots," however, occurred
in June of 1540 when Dragut paused on the west coast of Genovese Corsica and was trapped by a Doria
squadron. Following a fierce engagement in which Dragut's galley went down, he was taken prisoner by
Giannettino Doria, nephew of Andrea Doria. The next four
years of Dragut's life were passed on the benches
of Doria galleys, a period which ended with his ransom under Doria duress by Kheir-ed-Din Barbarossa. The
ransom price was an astronomical 3,500 gold ducats not to mention the lifting of Barbarossa's siege of Genoa.
The total price, though, included a back permanently scarred by galley lash and a thirst for vengeance
which would put pale to all of the bloody history gone before. For the next twenty-one years until his
death from a cannon shard at age 80 while participating in the Ottoman siege of Malta he would make his
ransom seem far too little. So, just one, or two, or three, or four of those parading at the crossroads of
history. Come aboard Arabella, a luxury yacht cruising those crossroads. Come aboard in Gocek. Gocek is 42
nautical miles ENE of Rhodes Town and 15 road miles from its own international airport at Dalaman. There
or elsewhere we can put you aboard a luxury sailing yacht for a holiday not to be forgotten. We can put you
aboard a charter yacht with an experienced crew able to show you Aruj Barbarossa's several tracks down the
coast of Turkey with brother Ilias, able to show you Kheir-ed-Din Barbarossa's many tracks up the coast of
Turkey, and able to show you Turgut's tracks among Aegean islands of Greece as well as tracks to and from
Istanbul where on several occasions he was royally received by Sultan Suleiman. Arabella, an impressive
luxury yacht available for a charter cruise in Greece or Turkey or both. Contact Blue Cruise Yacht
Charters today at