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This sleek wooden sailing yacht
incorporates the latest in design and appointment. Oak framed, mahogany planked, and teak decked with a low profile, she is graceful and fast. Furnishings are aesthetically pleasing and comfortable, and leave ample space for guests to maneuver. The upper deck is clutter-free and incorporates awnings where appropriate. The crew is professional and accomplished, and the galley serves an haute cuisine.

Accommodations for guests consist of five large and exquisitely appointed cabins.
Of these, one is a master cabin with double bed, two are double bed cabins, and two are twin bed cabins. All have en-suite bathroom facilities. Individual air-conditioning units and television monitors are fitted in each of the cabins, and all cabins are sound-isolated within thick mahogany walls.

Specifications: Year Built: 2006, Refit:2011 Length: 141 ft Beam: 26 ft Draft: 13 ft Displacement: 218 tons Type: Motor/Sail Rig: Schooner Engines: (2) 540 hp Caterpillar Generators: (2) Maximum Speed: 15 knots Cruising Speed: 11 knots Fuel: 1,600 gal Water: 3,900 gal Crew: 7

Equipment: Air Conditioning Refrigerator Ice Maker VHF Radio-Telephone Satellite & Local Television DVD Player Stereophonic Sound System Deck Shower Fishing Tackle Snorkeling Gear Tender with Outboard Ski Boat with 115 hp Outboard Kneeboard Wakeboard

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This page last updated on 01/14/2012

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 luxury yachts holiday sailing in Greece and Turkey may be obtained by clicking on the gray links immediately above. Thank You. You are unlikely to be searching for hic salta because few have heard the appellation and fewer have any idea what it means. You therefore must be searching for a luxury yacht sailing Greece or Turkey or both. In any of these events you have found a pertinent web site as this page deals with a luxury schooner called Hic Salta holiday sailing both Greece and Turkey, luxury sailing among Greek Aegean islands and along the southwest Aegean coast of Turkey. The Aegean is fertile territory for luxury sailing and has been at least since the coming of Alexander of Macedon in 334 BC. Among many who sailed luxuriously here in those early centuries was Antiochus II Theos depicted to the left. He was the grandson of Seleucus I Nicator and the Bactrian Princess Apama, the former an Alexander lieutenant who in the division of Alexander's empire wound up with one of his own. The Seleucid Empire stretched at various times from Bactria (Afghanistan) in the east to Macedonia in the west. Antiochus II reigned during the fifteen years from 261 BC. Early in his reign he was at war with the Ptolemaic Kingdom of Egypt, another offspring of Alexander's empire, warring along Turkey's Aegean coast and winning. He brought with him from his capital at Antioch (modern Antakya, Turkey) his wife and first cousin Laodice, a granddaughter of the same Seleucus I Nicator and his bride Apama. Antiochus was fond of good times some of which he found at Hallicarnassus, modern Bodrum and hailing port of the schooner Hic Salta. He also enjoyed himself at Miletus a bit further up the coast. It was in the liberation of Miletus that he obtained the sobriquet Theos, Greek for God. Upon winning the war with Ptolemaic Egypt and regaining parts of modern Turkey his father had earlier lost, Antiochus discarded and divorced Laodice, exiling her to Ephesus with their son Seleucus, Ephesus still further up the Turkish coast opposite Greek Samos. He then sealed his military victory by wedding Berenice, daughter of Egypt's Macedonian King Ptolemy II Philadelphus born on the Greek island of Kos opposite Bodrum. Berenice bore Antiochus another son who thereupon was declared heir apparent to the Seleucid throne. Laodice did not care for this development, her own son being a direct descendant on both sides of the empire's Macedonian founder. In fact, she was furious. She began plotting. She plotted so deviously that Antiochus was seduced into abandoning Berenice, a plain-vanilla full-blooded Macedonian without the cunning of her rival. Antiochus at age 40 returned to his first love who promptly slipped a little special-effect into one of his good-times libations. On his death bed, according to Laodice, Antiochus reversed himself and re-named Seleucus heir. Now the moral of this story is not that liquor kills gods as well as mortals, but rather that hell hath no greater scorn than a woman furious. So whether you are dreaming of a Blue Cruise or of women, you might charter a luxury sailing yacht to cruise through history along Turkey's southwest coast and among Aegean islands of Greece. Come aboard Hic Salta, a luxury sailing yacht offering a holiday par excellence. Come aboard a charter yacht with an experienced crew able to show you the Dodecanese islands of Greece or Antiochus's route up the Turkish coast from Hallicarnassus to Ephesus, able to show you as well the nearby Belevi monumental tomb where Antiochus is interred. A proper luxury yacht available for charter in Greece and Turkey the name of which, Hic Salta, is Latin for Here I Dance, which may be a quote from Julius Caesar upon arrival in Rhodes following ransom from the pirates of Pharmakousa, or it may be Here They Dance, an exclamation upon his return to Pharmakousa for the pirates' crucifixion. To discuss any or all of this contact Blue Cruise Yacht Charters today at blcryacht@aol.com