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Graceful, elegant, and well founded,
Miss Angel is the offspring of distinguished boat-building tradition married to charter yacht experience. Carefully handcrafted in Bodrum, Turkey, she was built at the direction of owner-skipper Mustafa Calik to satisfy comfort requirements of a five-star hotel while combining classic wooden yacht design with outstanding performance at sea. Neither were aesthetics spared below decks. Each of five double cabins is exquisitely appointed, and each has a fully equipped en suite bathroom. The equally attractive salon has dining table, bar, and video/audio entertainment center while also housing an inside steering console. Salon and guest cabins are constructed of varnished mahogany while hull frames are of oak, hull planking is mahogany, and the deck is teak. Schooner-rigged, Miss Angel is 80 feet in over-all length and carries a full suit of sails. She is air-conditioned throughout while each cabin is sound-isolated within thick bulkheads. A large quarterdeck adjoiniing the salon supports alfresco dining and lounging in shaded comfort.

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This page last updated on 01/15/2012

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 schooner sailing in Greece and Turkey may be obtained by clicking on the gray links immediately above. Thank You. You may be searching for an angel. Or you may be searching for a sailing holiday in Greece or Turkey. If any of these, you have been directed to an appropriate web page as this web page deals with all three, a yacht named Miss Angel offering holiday charters in both of those Mediterranean countries from her homeport in Bodrum, Turkey. This part of the world is known for a goddess called Artemis, a super-angel in the eyes of believers. That's her with a doe depicted at left in a Roman copy of a sculpture by Leochares of Athens done in the 4th century before the current era. Leochares had earlier sculpted the statues and bas reliefs on one side of the monumental tomb built for Mausolus of Halicarnassus, modern Bodrum. That tomb was one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, while the statue depicted below graces a chamber of the Louvre in Paris, one of the wonders of the modern world. Artemis was goddess of the hunt and of virgins, of wild animals and the wilderness. Twin sister of Apollo, she was the daughter of Zeus and Leto born on the island of Delos in mid-Aegean and soon borne to Anatolia's ancient Lycia not too distant from Halicarnassus. Anatolia is home to numerous temples of Artemis, that at Ephesus also one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. Artemis had two namesakes who made the pages of history at this the crossroads of history. The first was Artemisia the Elder who ruled Lycia's neighbor Caria early in the fifth century as satrap or queen reporting to the Great King in Persia. By all account, that is, by the account of Herodotus who wrote the first history text at Halicarnassus, Artemisia was a wise and benevolent ruler. She was also a skilled mariner, and it was at the battle of Salamis near Athens that the Persian Great King Xerxes said in reference to her skill, "Today men behaved like women and women like men." The second namesake was Artemisia the Younger, sister and wife of the aforementioned Mausolus as well as employer of Leochares in the gilding of Mausolus's tomb. She also ruled Caria benevolently following the death of her husband, continuing his great architectural work and perhaps inspiring Leochares. She too was a skilled mariner, trapping a Rhodian fleet bent on leveling Halicarnassus, manning the captured Rhodian ships, and with them surprising defenders on the walls of Rhodes Town. Would you like to know more about history at the crossroads of history? From history at out-of-the-way islands to history at haunts of the rich and famous. From history at Lesbos, 1478 island birthplace of Kheir-ed-Din Barbarossa, to history of the Hospitaller Knights' St. Peters Castle at Bodrum, its dungeon 1498 haunt to the same auburn-haired Greek-speaking Kheir-ed-Din until he glibly talked his way out and set forth on the road to wealth and fame. Kheir-ed-Din was a ladies man, among other distinctions. In 1535 he put into Italy's Gulf of Gaeta for rest and relaxation. While there he attempted to kidnap Giulia Gonzaga then resident in the town of Fondi a few miles up the coast. Descended from one of Italy's more prestigious families, celebrated by painters and poets, an angel of royal blood, Giulia Gonzaga was said to be the most beautiful woman in Italy. That's her at the right. Kheir-ed-Din failed in his attempt only because this fair maiden escaped bare on a barebacked stallion in the middle of the night. But in his sixties Kheir-ed-Din did kidnap and marry another Italian beauty. And following the wedding they honeymooned among Aegean islands then Ottoman. Honeymoon, anniversary, or otherwise, you might like to charter a sailing schooner to cruise among the same Aegean islands. From celebrated Santorini to celebrated Lesbos. Or you might like to sail south along the coast of Turkey from Bodrum to Gocek, a stretch of coast indented with countless coves surrounded by Calabrian pine, a stretch of coast where crystal-clear water laps at deserted beach. And you might like to return in the wake of Cleopatra who passed this way in 46 BC en route to Rome to appear before the Roman Senate. And again in 32 BC on her honeymoon with Marc Antony, the two of them en route to Actium. Yes, come aboard Miss Angel, a proper charter yacht offering a holiday merging past and present. Come aboard a charter yacht with an experienced crew able to show you routes of the two Artemisias, routes of Kheir-ed-Din Barbarossa, and the routes of Cleopatra as well as show you all of the natural wonders those giants of history saw. A proper schooner sailing Greece and Turkey. Contact Blue Cruise Yacht Charters today at blcryacht@aol.com