The Beneteau Oceanis 50 combines interior comfort, room,
and light with elegant lines and extraordinary sea-going performance. Designed by naval
architect Berret Raoupeau, she is available in three-cabin and five-cabin models while
boasting more features and creature comforts than ever before in a boat this size.
Technical Specifications:
Length: 49.5 ft Beam: 14.7 ft Draft: 6.7 ft Sail Area: 1,240 sq ft
Engine: 100 hp Yanmar Displacement: 26,500 lbs Water Tanks: 155 gal Fuel Tanks: 60 gal
Equipment:
Furling Headsail, Furling Main, Bimini Top Bow Thruster, Autopilot
Electric Windlass VHF Radio-Telephone CD Stereo Music System Fully Equipped
Galley Dingy w/Outboard
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a yacht charter in Greece or Turkey. You may be considering a bareboat rental in Turkey and a cruise
along that country's pine-clad and cove-indented coast. Or you may be dreaming of a bareboat charter in
Greece, of sailing the azure sea between remote Greek islands, some harboring sirens. If either, you
might like to charter a yacht designed for a family or for a small group of friends, either a yacht with
three private cabins each with en suite bathroom or a yacht with five private cabins sharing three
bathrooms. The Beneteau Oceanis 50. Given a large salon below deck and an equally large cockpit on deck,
the combination is an optimum platform on which to explore history along the coast of Turkey and among
nearby islands of Greece. And while exploring history to also bask under a warm sun and swim in
clear seawater. History in the Aegean and eastern Mediterranean involves the passage of empires: Persian,
Athenian, Macedonian, Roman, and Ottoman of a longer list. History here also involves the coming and
going of larger than life personalities, Xerxes, Alexander, Cleopatra, Saint Paul, Hadrian, and the
Barbarossa brothers among them. Still another creating history here a bare five hundred years ago was the
Turkish privateer and Ottoman admiral Kemal Reis known to some as Camali. Born at Gallipoli in the middle
of the fifteenth century, Kemal Reis gained fame for raids as far distant as the Balearics, Spain's
mainland coast, and the Atlantic's Canary Islands, as well as for successes in combat with Portuguese and
Venetian warships in the western Mediterranean. But he also comes down to us in history because of his
numerous tilts with the Knights of St. John of Jerusalem (Hospitallers) operating from Rhodes and other
nearby Dodecanese islands. The first of these encounters occurred when Kemal appeared in command of a
squadron of galliots (small galleys) and fustas (small galliots) during Mehmet II's unsuccessful 1480
siege of Rhodes. Later and by then a veteran of conflict in the western Mediterranean, Kemal Reis made a
second appearance at Rhodes in 1497 when his flotilla captured a Christian bark off the coast of that
island. Five years later he was found raiding the island of Kos
where the Knights maintained a fortified outpost. In response to intelligence reports early in 1505 that
Kemal Reis was planning another assault on Rhodes, the Hospitaller Grand Master, fearful of Turkish spies
ascertaining the island's defenses, appointed two commissioners to license all foreigners disembarking in
Rhodes and "to prevent women and other useless persons from coming ashore." Some of the
Grand Master's concern was warranted because in April of 1505 Kamal Reis reappeared in command of three
galleys and seventeen fustas. He put raiding parties ashore which torched Rhodian villages and took captives
until forced by Hospitaller cavalry and infantry to re-embark. Moving on to Simi he put artillery ashore
which breached the acropolis wall, but was again driven to re-embark. He then struck successively at the
islands of Nisiros, Tilos, Kos, and Kalymnos before heading for Tenedos outside of the Dardanelles. One year
later Kemal Reis put into Leros where the castle still dominating that island was defended by a single
Hospitaller, Paolo Simeoni. Kamal Reis had come in from the western Mediterranean with eight galliots and
fustas and was in need of provisions. First, though, he had to take the Knights castle. Having leveled a part
of the castle walls with ships cannon, he stormed those walls at dawn the following day. His 500 janissaries
were amazed, however, to find not the expected handful of defenders manning the parapets but rather scores
wearing the knights' familiar scarlet tunic with white cross. Simeoni had earlier had the foresight to have
spare tunics available for the island's shepherds and fishermen, young and old, male and (Grand Master take
note) female. Kemal Reis called off the assault, re-embarked his janissaries, and set sail for neighboring Lipsi.
Lipsi is thought by some to be the island of Ogygia on which Odysseus was shipwrecked returning from Troy
and where he was seduced by the siren Calypso. History does not tell us what happened to Kemal Reis during
his Lipsi visit but it was a full year before he was to again engage the Knights at sea, inconclusively,
and a full two years before he was to again fall upon Kos and Rhodes, failing in both instances to do more than
make a nuisance of himself. Still one year later, in 1510, Kemal Reis went down with twenty-seven of his ships
in a December storm off Naxos in the central Aegean. There is more to Kemal Reis and to Knights history, of
course, too much more to recount here. But charter a sailing yacht to cruise the sea between Rhodes, Simi,
Nisiros, and Tilos to learn more. Starting in Gocek. Are you searching for Gocek in Turkey? Well, it is in the
NW corner of the Gulf of Fethiye forty-two nautical miles ENE of Rhodes Town. It is also about fifteen road miles
from its own international airport at Dalaman. In Gocek we can put you aboard a Beneteau Oceanis 50 for the
yacht rental of a lifetime. We can put you aboard a rental yacht and show you Kemal Reis's place in history
and show you the Knights maritime backyard, as well. Contact Blue Cruise Yacht Charters today at
blcryacht@aol.com for Oceanis 50 yacht rentals in Greece and
Turkey.
Five years later he was found raiding the island of Kos
where the Knights maintained a fortified outpost. In response to intelligence reports early in 1505 that
Kemal Reis was planning another assault on Rhodes, the Hospitaller Grand Master, fearful of Turkish spies
ascertaining the island's defenses, appointed two commissioners to license all foreigners disembarking in
Rhodes and "to prevent women and other useless persons from coming ashore." Some of the
Grand Master's concern was warranted because in April of 1505 Kamal Reis reappeared in command of three
galleys and seventeen fustas. He put raiding parties ashore which torched Rhodian villages and took captives
until forced by Hospitaller cavalry and infantry to re-embark. Moving on to Simi he put artillery ashore
which breached the acropolis wall, but was again driven to re-embark. He then struck successively at the
islands of Nisiros, Tilos, Kos, and Kalymnos before heading for Tenedos outside of the Dardanelles. One year
later Kemal Reis put into Leros where the castle still dominating that island was defended by a single
Hospitaller, Paolo Simeoni. Kamal Reis had come in from the western Mediterranean with eight galliots and
fustas and was in need of provisions. First, though, he had to take the Knights castle. Having leveled a part
of the castle walls with ships cannon, he stormed those walls at dawn the following day. His 500 janissaries
were amazed, however, to find not the expected handful of defenders manning the parapets but rather scores
wearing the knights' familiar scarlet tunic with white cross. Simeoni had earlier had the foresight to have
spare tunics available for the island's shepherds and fishermen, young and old, male and (Grand Master take
note) female. Kemal Reis called off the assault, re-embarked his janissaries, and set sail for neighboring Lipsi.
Lipsi is thought by some to be the island of Ogygia on which Odysseus was shipwrecked returning from Troy
and where he was seduced by the siren Calypso. History does not tell us what happened to Kemal Reis during
his Lipsi visit but it was a full year before he was to again engage the Knights at sea, inconclusively,
and a full two years before he was to again fall upon Kos and Rhodes, failing in both instances to do more than
make a nuisance of himself. Still one year later, in 1510, Kemal Reis went down with twenty-seven of his ships
in a December storm off Naxos in the central Aegean. There is more to Kemal Reis and to Knights history, of
course, too much more to recount here. But charter a sailing yacht to cruise the sea between Rhodes, Simi,
Nisiros, and Tilos to learn more. Starting in Gocek. Are you searching for Gocek in Turkey? Well, it is in the
NW corner of the Gulf of Fethiye forty-two nautical miles ENE of Rhodes Town. It is also about fifteen road miles
from its own international airport at Dalaman. In Gocek we can put you aboard a Beneteau Oceanis 50 for the
yacht rental of a lifetime. We can put you aboard a rental yacht and show you Kemal Reis's place in history
and show you the Knights maritime backyard, as well. Contact Blue Cruise Yacht Charters today at