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page a quick read anyway. You may find the photos and brief description suggestive. But assuming you have
found the kind of web page for which you are searching, why are you searching? Could you be considering a
bareboat charter holiday along the coast of Turkey? Could you be dreaming of anchoring off of and swimming
along a white sand beach? Or along two or three white sand beaches? Are you into archaeology and history?
Archaeology and history which doesn't quit? Such as found along the Turkish coast? Could you be looking
for a bareboat charter yacht with accommodations for as many as ten? Ten including children in need of
instruction in history and archaeology? Could you or they be dreaming of a sleek new bareboat on which to
cruise Turkey's ancient Lycia? Homer's ancient Lycia? As did Lycia's own Payava? The Classical Period
warrior-aristocrat whose tomb was in 1843 removed by Charles Fellows from Xanthos to the British Museum in
London? And who plied these coastal waters in 130-foot triremes propelled by 85 oars to a side. Or could
your dream be to sail Francis Beaufort's 1811-12 track along both the Lycian and neighboring Carian coasts?
The Beaufort of wind and sea-scale fame who surveyed these coasts aboard HMS Fredericksteen, a 32-gun
frigate taken from Denmark during the Napoleonic Wars. Would you like to do this while on holiday? Would
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sloop-rigged sailing yacht cruising the shores of Turkey as did Payava and Beaufort? Shores
frequently referred to as the Turquoise Coast? Or would you prefer to charter holiday in Greece? To cruise
among Greek islands? As did both Payava and Beaufort. While Payava and Beaufort had more mundane matters on
their minds, you might be dreaming of harbor towns at the foot of steep slopes and of octopus salads in
vinegar and olive oil, of Greek blue-and-white sugar cubes, of potted geraniums and of climbing
bougainvillea. Of white-washed grouting between paving stones. Of the azure sea separating remote Aegean
islands. Or you and your children might be curious about the Hospitaller Knights of St. John of Jerusalem
who occupied eastern Aegean islands during the 14th and 15th centuries when known as the Knights of Rhodes.
Or about the same knights when later known as the Knights of Malta, an organization the purpose of which
was not only to tend to ill and injured but also to destroy all things Islamic, particularly Ottoman
shipping along the coasts of Lycia and Caria and among these same Aegean islands. How many students of
history are familiar with the saga of Vincenzo Anastagi? A Knight of Malta who cruised the Aegean in the
years 1563 and 1564? Any other than El Greco, the Spanish immigrant from Aegean Crete? Born of noble lineage
at Perugia in 1531, Anastagi (El Greco's portrait at left) was knighted in Malta at a relatively late
thirty-two years of age. He was immediately assigned to the Order's galley flotilla, and during the second
year of galley duty was sailing in company with Mathurin d'Aux de Lescout-Romegas when Romegas captured an
Ottoman sultana bound from Istanbul to Venice. Lost in the action was the Chief Black Eunuch of the sultan's
harem as well as 80,000 gold ducats and other valuables. The aged wet nurse for Sultan Suleiman's grown daughter
Mihrimah was taken prisoner and died in captivity. This incident is said to have precipitated Suleiman's
1565 siege of Malta at which Romegas was distinguished by his valor. Even more distinguished was Vincenzo
Anastagi, and it was his heroics during the siege which likely brought him to the attention of El Greco.
The Ottoman siege of Malta began in May of 1565 and endured nearly four months before its end. Some thirty
thousand Turks were put ashore and took up positions encircling the three fortresses guarding the natural
harbor now known as Valletta, re-named for defending Grand Master Jean Parisot de la Valetta. Defending the
fortresses were about 500 Hospitallers and some 7,000 others including citizenry. The walled town of Mdina
situated behind Turkish lines was considered insignificant and was ignored by the Ottomans. Within those
walls, however, were a handful of determined knights and other able cavalrymen. One of their leaders was
Vincenzo Anastagi. Each night Anastagi would lead a party numbering 60 or 70 cavalrymen through one
of Mdina's gates to harass Turkish logistics supporting the siege, quite often with notable success.
Following the fall of the first knight fortress the siege of the remaining two became intense with
continuous bombardment and sappers under the walls. During the major Turkish assault early in August, when
the knights seemed lost, Vincenzo Anastagi with perhaps one hundred others set upon the undefended
Turkish rear, killing and burning as they passed. Made aware of slaughter in their camps the Turks
abandoned what very well might have been victory and turned upon a handful of the enemy already safely
back behind the walls of Mdina. The siege was abandoned one month later with half of the participants dead
and many others maimed. While a number of people were credited with the successful defense of Malta, not
least the iron-willed Grand Master and notably including Romegas fighting both afloat and ashore, perhaps
the single action most significant was a cavalry charge. And so, some say, from bringing the siege about to
bringing about its end, Vincenzo Anastagi of Perugia earned the attention of El Greco. What would you think
about a holiday in The Aegean at the crossroads of history? Sailing the wake of Vincenzo Anastagi? A holiday
aboard a charter yacht proceeding leisurely from pine-shrouded cove to historically fascinating locale? And
at these places speculating about the cause and effect of history? All of this starting in Gocek? Are you
searching for Gocek in Turkey? Well, Gocek is about 42 nautical miles ENE of the Knights Castle in Rhodes
Town and 15 road miles from its own international airport at Dalaman. In Gocek or elsewhere we can put you
aboard a sailing yacht for the cruise of a lifetime. We can put you aboard an Oceanis 54 for a holiday not
to be forgotten. We can put you aboard a charter yacht and show you the tracks of Anastagi, Payava, and
Beaufort along the coast of Turkey and among Greek islands. An Oceanis 54 on holiday charter in Turkey and
Greece. Contact Blue Cruise Yacht Charters today
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