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The Beneteau 57 is a Bruce Farr designed sloop
with fine lines and superbly crafted interior. The center of on-board activity is the large, cushioned, central cockpit which can seat eight for alfresco dining. An uncluttered quarterdeck offers ample room for sunbathing and, with retractable stairs, easy access to and from the sea. Beneteau 57's carry a full inventory of sails and were designed for easy handling by a crew of two. Under sail these powerful 57-foot charter yachts set a new standard for production boats. Exquisite details have been so well conceived
as to compare with the craftsmanship of many semi-custom yards.

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This page last updated on 03/16/2007

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 Beneteaus cruising the Turkish coast and Aegean Greece may be obtained by clicking on the gray links immediately above. Thank You. You may be searching for a crewed charter yacht cruising Turkey or Greece. Or you may be searching for a crewed charter yacht cruising Turkey and Greece. If so, you have come to the right place. This Beneteau 57 is not H.M.S. Pinafore, though she may be as entertaining. Neither is she Iolanthe the fairy princess, though she may be as charming. She is a fast and comfortable crewed charter yacht cruising the Turkish coast and Aegean Greece. As for rain, it falls mainly in the plain of Spain and along the coast of Argyll, and not upon Aegean islands of Greece and not upon the Turquoise Coast of Turkey. At least not often during the sailing season. This Beneteau 57 does its sailing from April through October, skimming the coast of Turkey between pine-encircled bays and clear-water coves, between white-sand beaches and rustic villages. She also cruises azure sea lanes between sugar-cube encrusted Cyclades islands and between pastel-hued Dodecanese islands. Doing both, this fast Bruce Farr-designed yacht cruises the crossroads of history, combining sun and exercise with archaeology and the story of four millennia from Bronze Age to Plutocracy at the End of a Gun Barrel. W.S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan, it might be noted, began their collaboration in 1871 with Thespis, a musical dealing with Greek gods. Would you like to learn more about Greek gods? Well, some of them, those of interest to sailors, are thumb-nailed at Greek Gods To Know, a part of our sister site Aegean And Eastern Mediterranean Crewed Yacht Charters. Notable by his absence there is Ares, the god of war and model for Dick Cheney. While Iolanthe was a fairy princess satirizing Britain's House of Lords, Cleopatra was a larger-than-life princess whose realm encompassed the Aegean and eastern Mediterranean. Her Ptolemy forebears ruled these waters from shortly after Alexander to the coming of the Romans. Principal among Ptolemaic admirals was Artemidorus of Perge. Artemidorus of Perge is not to be confused with Artemidorus of Ephesus, a geographer who charted the sea around Turkey and Greece about one hundred years later. During the third century BC Artemidorus of Perge extended Egyptian rule beyond Santorini, where a monument (next photo) to his achievements may be seen today at ancient Thira. Cleopatra thus came quite naturally to these waters. Perhaps you might like to trace Cleopatra's route, beginning at that same Perge just east of Antalya and continuing along the coasts of ancient Lycia and Caria, rounding the southwest corner of Turkey. Or perhaps a cruise along Cleopatra's route among Greek Dodecanese islands. While you holiday. That's right, while you have a family holiday aboard a crewed yacht cruising just as did Cleopatra on her galley honeymoon with Marc Antony. Among other places visited, Cleopatra paused for weeks on the Dodecanese island of Kos. She also paused at Cedrae about thirty miles east of Kos, there importing sand from Egypt for her swimming pleasure. Would you not like to have a family holiday sailing Cleopatra's route! Enjoying a similar swimming pleasure. Thereafter cruising north along the coast of ancient Ionia, a part of western Turkey, to Kusadasi and Ephesus, thence to Samos in the Greek Sporades. Just as did Cleopatra and Marc Antony. They paused for at least seven weeks in Samos. Some accounts make it seven months. Would you like to discover what it was they found so interesting? Try our Beneteau 57. She can take you to all of the stops along Cleopatra's route. Beyond Samos into the central Aegean, to Mykonos and Paros, to Milos and Kithera, to Kephalonia in the Ionian and on to Levkas and Preveza. It was at Preveza that Cleopatra's honeymoon came to an end. Preveza, you see, was then known as Actium. Do all of this and more aboard a charter yacht with an experienced crew able to show you the routes of Cleopatra and Artemidorus, a superb crewed Beneteau available for cruising the Turkish coast and Aegean Greece. Contact Blue Cruise Yacht Charters today at blcryacht@aol.com