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On deck the fly-bridge cockpit features 360-degree visibility
The Lagoon 500's pilot house/salon is a superb entertainment and
dining area
Two pontoons house five cabins,
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concerning catamarans and others cruising the Aegean Sea of eastern Greece and western Turkey may be obtained
by clicking on the gray links immediately above. Thank You. You may be searching for the Indianapolis
500, or for the Ford 500, or for the Fiat 500, or for the Australian national card game 500, but you have
found the Lagoon 500 catamaran cruising the Aegean Sea of eastern Greece and the Aegean coast of western Turkey.
So stick around. Forget those car bits. The cards, too. Whether looking for cars or cards you will sooner or
later be considering a holiday. So get a head start. Imagine sailing an azure sea under a gentle sun. Imagine
swimming in water so clear sea life stares back. Imagine perpetual pursuit of perfect octopus salad. Imagine
exploring the crossroads of history. And do we have history! Much of it corsair history. Should you intend a
holiday with family, some in the family may be quite interested in our corsair history. In the late-15th and
early 16th centuries we had the Barbarossa brothers of Lesbos, Aruj and Khizr, Barbarossa not a family name but
rather an appellation stemming from the auburn color of their hair. We also had the Barbarossa's blood brothers
Elias and Isaac, fair but not auburn haired. All four of them were corsairs, Khizr arguably the most famous
corsair of all time. Early on he was imprisoned by the Hospitaller Knights of Rhodes at St. Peters Castle in
Bodrum, but he finished as Lord High Admiral of the Ottoman Navy. A few years behind the Barbarossas we had the
Dragut brothers born under the walls of St. Peters Castle, the elder, Turgut, almost as famous as Khizr
Barbarossa. He was still going strong at the age of 80 in spite of, or because of, four years at a Christian
galley oar. The brother cruising in his company also cruised in a shadow so long that no given name has come
down through the pages of history. We had Jack Ward of Plymouth who, after having his letter of reprisal against
Spain and Venice yanked by the British Admiralty, fell on hard times and signed on as ships company aboard a
Royal Navy brig. In 1603, however, he mutinied and stole a small sailing vessel, his passport back into corsair
ranks. By 1607 he had become richer than Croesus, in large measure reflecting his capture that year in Turkey's
Gulf of Antalya of a Venetian argosy loaded to the gunnels. We also had Ward's lieutenant Sampson Denball of
Dartmouth who in recognition of his own exploits in the Aegean and eastern Mediterranean rose to the rank of
admiral in the Tunisian navy. That was before his capture by those same Hospitaller Knights who condemned him
to another of those Christian galley oars. We also had Henry Mainwaring, Robert Walsingham, Peter Easton,
Richard Gifford, and a score of others who in the same years prowled our sea lanes. Among those others were the
Sherley brothers of Sussex, Thomas, Anthony, and Robert whose lives in The Travailes of the Three English
Brothers were celebrated on stage in London in the same year Jack Ward became richer than Croesus. Most of
the others mentioned were also celebrated in song and verse back home. Nor should we omit William Dawney of
Cornwall who as a Hospitaller Knight during the mid-fifteenth century engaged in corsair activities along the
Turkish coast from Bodrum to Iskenderun. What gives, you ask!!! The Hospitallers had corsairs? Yes, they did,
a corsair being any mariner with a letter of marque or letter of reprisal from a sovereign entity authorizing
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entity, and the
Hospitaller Order of Saint John of Jerusalem, or Knights of Rhodes, was a sovereign entity. So, yes, we have
history at the crossroads of history. Lots of it! Not mostly English history as the aforementioned listing might
suggest, but rather history for the ages made by all of the peoples frequenting the Aegean and eastern
Mediterranean. Herodotus who at Bodrum wrote the world's first history text entitled History made history
in doing so. We had philosophers in large number including Thales of Miletus, followed by his student
Anaximander, followed by Anaximander's student Anaximenes. Pythagoras of Samos, he of the theorem you've
forgotten. Heraclitus of Ephesus, the way up is the way down. Xenophanes of Colophon, a poet, as well. All
making history on our shores with the study of logic. Not least of our philosophers was Kenelm Digby of Oxford's
Gloucester Hall (Worcester College), said by one observer to be not just philosopher but poet, lover,
connoisseur, alchemist, duelist, and interpreter of seventeenth-century corpuscularianism, an extravagant figure
(that's him at the left) in public and private life who in 1628 took several French prizes in the port of
Iskenderun for which he was celebrated in verse by Ben Jonson. You say you already plan to holiday in Greece or
Turkey! But at remote blue-water coves and sugar-cube encrusted islands, not at the crossroads of history. With
your family. Or with a group of friends. Well then, or in either event, holiday aboard a cruising catamaran
chartered in Greece or Turkey. Charter a sailing catamaran to cruise coves and islands from Bodrum. Or from
Gocek. Are you searching for Gocek in Turkey? For Rhodes or Lesbos in Greece? Well, let us tell you how to get
there, and once there come aboard a Lagoon 500, charter catamarans offering unforgettable holidays
sailing from these ports. Oh! Digby's corpuscularianism? It may have been the postulate that all physical
bodies possess an inner and outer layer of minute corpuscles, or it may more simply have been Digby's derogatory
classification for the activities of graduates of Oxford's Corpus Christi College. What was
that! Come let us tell you more. Contact Blue Cruise Yacht Charters today at