The Dufour 385 is the company's first cruising yacht from the drawing board of Cantieri del Prado's Umberto Felci, a naval architect renown for racing designs. This design combines sleek lines with cruising comfort in a family package.
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by clicking on the gray links immediately above. Thank You. Could you be searching for a yacht
charter sailing Turkey? Or for a sloop-rigged bareboat charter sailing the Greek Aegean? Could you be
considering a charter embarking in Turkey and sailing to Greece? Could you be hoping to cruise among
Greek islands under an Aegean sun? Or would you prefer to remain in Turkey? Dreaming of isolated
pine-shrouded coves along Turkey's Aegean coast? Perhaps you would like to do both, to go sailing in
both Turkey Greece. On the same holiday! Both can be done. Why not do both aboard a fast bareboat
cruising yacht designed for family sailing, a charter yacht with accommodations for six? You might
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cruising ancient Lycia, home of so many of the Iliad's Trojan heroes. Sarpedon (depicted in
adjacent photo) among them. Or begin by sailing Black Hassan's early 16th century corsair track along
the Aegean coast of Turkey and among Greek Aegean islands. This Black Hassan, unrelated to the corsair
of identical name fifteen years his senior, did it with a squadron of fast galliots preying with the
brothers Barbarossa on Latin shipping and Latin communities. That was before taking his squadron to
Algeria and in 1516 proclaiming himself Emir of Cherchelle. With the Ottoman Sultan's blessing, of
course. Would you like to sail Black Hassan's corsair track through the Aegean while you holiday at
the crossroads of history? Or would you prefer to simply cruise with your family from port to port?
Through the Greek Dodecanese so near at hand? Starting in Turkey? Starting in Bodrum? Or Gocek? Are
you searching for Gocek in Turkey? Or are you wondering about Kara Hassan? Black Hassan? He met his
end shortly after his coronation at the hands not of Latins but of Aruj Reis, the eldest of the
brothers Barbarossa. Almost three thousand years earlier Sarpedon met his end at the hands of Patroclos
during a sortie from Troy. We can put you aboard a bareboat charter yacht for the holiday of a lifetime. We
can put you aboard a Dufour 385 and point you toward the tracks of both Black Hassan and Aruj Reis,
show you as well Freya Stark's 1952 track from Izmir through the Dodecanese and along the coasts of
Caria and Lycia to Xanthos where the remains of Sarpedon's monumental tomb can
be seen today, show you Cleopatra's 32 BC honeymoon route west
along the south coast of Asia Minor and among Greek islands. And we can tell you where Cleopatra was
headed and why. Contact Blue Cruise Yacht Charters today at