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Further information concerning Oceanis bare boats sailing Greece and Turkey may be obtained by
clicking on the gray links immediately above. Thank You. Are you searching for a bare boat
on which to sail Turkey or Greece? Could you be thinking of a Beneteau Oceanis sailing Turkey? Or of
an Oceanis sailing Greece? Do you hope to go sailing in the Aegean? In the Greek Aegean? In the
Turkish Aegean? How about doing either or both aboard a charter yacht with family accommodations?
How about doing either or both aboard an Oceanis 37 with accommodations for up to six of you! With
space to spread out above and below deck! You might like to charter such a bare boat to sail the coast
of Turkey's ancient Lycia from Gocek to Kekova Roads to Phaselis. Or to sail Odysseus's route from
Troy along the western coast of Turkey and among Greek Dodecanese islands. While you holiday. You
might like to holiday cruise this same route with geography and history texts. Tracing the Odyssey.
Encountering sirens along the way. At Lipsi. Or perhaps tracing Barbarossa's tracks up and down the
same coast to and from his home in Lesbos. Or tracing the tracks of lesser known but able seamen such
as Francis Beaufort. Tracks of the two Francis Beauforts. Or those of Guillaume de Beauregard. And we
are still in the B's, yet! Beauregard's case is instructive. And not just in terms of history and
geography. Born at Lyon in 1575 into a family of mixed French and Florentine merchants, by the age of
20 he was of the nobility, a knight in L'Ordre du Saint-Esprit, France's most prestigious chivalric
society. He got there by winning his spurs in the service of Henry of Navarre who was at war with Spanish
pretenders to the French throne, the same Henry who was to become Henry IV. There followed service
as a Knight of Saint John of Jerusalem where he earned his sea captaincy defending the island of Malta.
And it is as a sea captain that he attracts our attention. Taking his Florentine family name of
Guglielmo Guadagni, he subsequently |
enlisted in
the service of the de Medici princes of Tuscany and became a knight of Santo Stefano. The Knights of
Santo Stefano were like the Knights of Saint John a second order dedicated to overcoming Ottoman
influence in the Mediterranean. In 1607 Beauregard led a Tuscan flotilla in a
joint expedition to the Barbary Coast of Africa then ruled by Ottoman satraps, an expedition which
razed Annaba in Algeria. During most of the three years 1608 through 1610 he roamed
at will with three galleons and five other vessels through the Aegean and eastern Mediterranean, from
Thasos and Troy in the north between which he took on a Turkish galley squadron, to a shore skirmish
at ancient Priene in Caria, to the vicinity of Rhodes where his four galleons successfully took on 20
Turkish galleys and a galleass, to Cape Gelidonya near Kekova Roads where he intercepted a convoy from
Alexandretta (Iskenderun) and destroyed two of three escorting sultanas (galleons), to an assault on
the fortress at Agva just north of ancient Phaselis, to Karpathos in the Dodecanese and to Crete in the
southern Aegean. And what did it gain Tuscany? Four hundred Tuscan dead; almost as many maimed. Seven
hundred hostages who became refugees. Three galleons too worn to ever return to sea. And a depleted
Tuscan treasury. For what? For little or nothing. The Ottomans continued to roam at will in the Aegean
and eastern Mediterranean. And the Knights of Santo Stefano never again dispatched an expedition to
this part of the world. America take note. So, would you like to trace the route of Guillaume de
Beauregard? Or would you prefer Odysseus's route? Starting in Gocek? Are you searching for Gocek in
Turkey? Well, it is in the NW corner of the Gulf of Fethiye 42 nautical miles ENE of Rhodes Town. It is
also 25 minutes by road from the international airport at Dalaman. In Gocek we can put you aboard a
sailing yacht for the holiday of a lifetime. We can put you aboard a Beneteau Oceanis and point you
toward the flat sailing waters of the Gulfs of Gocek and Fethiye, direct you to Beauregard's route down
the coast of Lycia or to that of Odysseus among all of the wonders Homer recounted. Superb Oceanis bare
boats sailing Greece and Turkey. Contact Blue Cruise Yacht Charters today at