Naval architects Marc Van Peteghem and Vincent Lauriot Prevost based their design of the Lagoon 440 on the latest multi-hull technology. Extraordinary care has been taken in the aesthetic and functional design of the yacht: on deck, coach roof lines are long and elegant, forms are dynamic, and spaces are cleverly used. The raised central helm gives perfect 360 degree visibility, and all control lines are within reach. Even a reduced crew can easily maneuver the Lagoon 440. The hull design is powerful yet seaworthy, while care in weight distribution reduces pitching to a minimum. A high ratio sail plan and fine hull appendices make the Lagoon 440 a fast, seaworthy, and elegant catamaran. Few other yachts available for bareboat sailing in Greece and Turkey can offer comparable comfort and privacy.
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or both? Or simply for a lagoon? Or could you be searching for a multi-hull charter sailing lagoons
along the southwest coast of Turkey or among Aegean islands of Greece? Could you be dreaming of ghosting
from pine-enshrouded lagoon to pine-enshrouded cove on Turkey's Turquoise Coast? Or are you dreaming of
a bare boat catamaran charter in Greece? Of a stable platform on which to ride the Meltemi wind
from remote Greek island to remote Greek island? Of a yacht on which to poke into lagoons surrounded by
Greek blue and white? Or surrounded by nothing at all? Or do you wish to sail both Greece and Turkey?
How about sailing one or the other or both aboard a catamaran with accommodations for nine. Or for ten
in a pinch. How about chartering such a catamaran to cruise the crossroads of history. A bare boat on
which to explore history along the coast of Turkey and among nearby Aegean islands of Greece. And while
exploring history also basking under a warm sun and swimming in clear seawater. Not the first but
certainly one of the more remarkable figures creating history here was an Athenian statesman and general
by the name of Thrasybulus. Thrasybulus was born in Athens in the middle of the 5th century BC and
first came to the attention of history as a trireme captain at Samos in 411BC. At the time, oligarchs
there and in Athens attempted a coup and intended to come to terms with Athens' oligarchic foe Sparta.
Successful in Athens, coup leaders failed at Samos when confronted by |
democrats including Thrasybulus. Samian coup leaders, mostly military,
were then deposed by their own troops and replaced, and Thrasybulus was thereupon elected a general of
the sea. At the Battle of Cynossema which took place that same year in the Hellespont (Turkish
Dardanelles), Thrasybulus in command of 76 warships won a victory over a numerically superior but
disorganized Spartan fleet commanded by Mindarus. This victory, coming as it did at a time when
Athens' democratic government had been replaced by an oligarchy, and when an Athenian defeat could have
ended the Peloponnesian War, had a significant impact. The newly confident Athenian fleet proceeded to
win two more victories in the Hellespont in quick succession, the first at Abidos and the second being
a dramatic rout in 410 BC at Cyzicus (Balikhisar). These victories ended the Spartan threat to Athens'
grain lifeline from the Black Sea. Charter a bare boat catamaran to sail in Thrasybulus's wake from
Greece to Turkey, from Samos to Ephesus to Lesbos to the Hellespont. Or to cruise in his 407 BC wake
from Samos to the siege of Spartan Phocaea (Turkish Foca), or in his 406 BC wake to the Battle of
Arginusae (Turkish Ayvalik), an overwhelming Athenian victory. These victories at sea postponed but
did not prevent ultimate loss of the war at Aegospotami, a 405 BC catastrophe which might well have been
prevented had Thrasybulus and his fellow commanders not been recalled or dismissed. During the years
which followed Thrasybulus nevertheless rose to become Athenian head of state on three different
occasions. But when a Spartan maritime threat developed during the Corinthian War, Thrasybulus
was in 389 BC again dispatched to command Athenian naval forces off the coast of Asia Minor. With a
flotilla of 40 triremes he proceeded
to re-establish Athenian hegemony from the Hellespont south to
Lesbos, Chios, and Samos, from there to Kos and Rhodes, and from there along the coast of Anatolia as far
as Pamphylian Aspendos (near Antalya) where in 388 BC he met an untimely end at the hands of over-taxed
locals, murdered at night while asleep in his tent. "So perished Thrasybulus, a good and great man
by all admission," according to Xenophon, the only contemporary chronicler of note. Make your own
judgement! With history texts in hand sail Thrasybulus's path among Greek Aegean islands and down the
coast of Asia Minor. While you holiday. While you holiday with a group of friends aboard a chartered
catamaran proceeding leisurely from enchanting locale to historic crossroads. Beyond Lycia and Caria.
All the way to Aspendos where each year during June and July there is an opera and ballet festival in
that ancient city's unmatched Roman theater. Would you not like to sail this crossroads of history!
Starting in Samos. Are you searching for Samos in Greece? Well, it is in the eastern Aegean off the
coast of Turkey twenty nautical miles SW of Kusadasi (Ephesus). There or elsewhere we can put you aboard
bare boat catamarans for the holiday of a lifetime. We can put you aboard bare boat catamarans and point
you toward Thrasybulus's many routes among nearby islands of Greece and along the coast of Turkey. Superb
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