Panta Rhei of Fowey is a custom-built 51-foot performance
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Further information concerning charter cruising in Turkey and Greece may be obtained by clicking on
the gray links immediately above. Thank You. Could you be searching for a progressive rock
band? For a progressive rock band from Budapest? A mid-70's progressive rock band called Panta
Rhei known for its adaptations of the classical works of Bela Bartok and Edvard Grieg? If so,
you have come to the wrong place, you have found the wrong web page. This web page has nothing to do
with progressive rock. Neither does it have to do with Bela Bartok nor Edvard Grieg. And it has
nothing to do with Alex Szalay, the original Panta Rhei guitarist. He moved on to become a
Professor of Physics and Astronomy at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland. Or,
rather than searching for a progressive rock band, could you be thinking of a major change in your
life, a major move? Why not! Everything changes with panta rhei, everything moves. Why not
turn your back on the mundane! Why not get out of your rut! Why not live a little! Why not come
aboard a fast sailing yacht charter cruising in Turkey and Greece! Why not embark on a cruise
meandering among Aegean islands of Greece! Why not embark on a cruise gunk-holing along the Turkish
coast! Are you dreaming of a crewed yacht charter cruising Turkey? Of a crewed yacht sailing on or
off the wind from pine-shrouded cove to pine-shrouded cove? Or is it charter cruising in both Greece
and Turkey which you seek? How about doing one or the other aboard a charter yacht cruising
the crossroads of history. How about chartering Panta Rhei to cruise Turkey's ancient Lycia,
home of Homer's erstwhile Trojan heros. Or to sail Uluc (Uluch) Ali's historic 1571 track from Cyprus
to Lepanto along the |
coast of Lycia and among
what are now Greek Dodecanese islands. While you holiday. While you holiday with your children
cruising the Greek and Turkish Aegean in relative isolation. While you holiday aboard a charter yacht
proceeding leisurely from enchanting locale to historical crossroads. While you sail in Uluc Ali's
1571 wake back from Lepanto to Constantinople among Cyclades and Sporades islands of Greece and along
the Ionian coast of Turkey. Does that sound like charter cruising in Greece and Turkey! At the
crossroads of history! Or what! And what happened at Lepanto, anyway? Lepanto sometimes called
Navpaktos? Lepanto was one of the largest and by far the most deadly naval battle in history. On one
side were arrayed 208 Holy League galleys, galleasses, and additional vessels, and on the other side
there were 251 Ottoman galleys and smaller vessels, including 42 belonging to Uluc Ali's left wing. These
459 vessels were manned by 141,000 sailors, marines, and oarsmen. Forty thousand of them lost their lives,
the single most deadly toll in the history of naval warfare. Why not charter a crewed sailing yacht in
which to enhance your children's awareness of history? And of geography? Where is Lepanto, anyway? What
egocentrics were responsible? And why was one of the battle's tens of thousands of wounded associated
with the Man of La Mancha? Could it be because Uluc Ali was once a Calabrian novice? Not likely!
And why was Uluc Ali's name changed by the Ottoman Sultan Selim, after the battle, to Kilic Ali,
meaning The Sword? And of what significance were those Holy League galleasses? Come sail with us
in Greece and Turkey and learn the answers. Starting in Gocek. Are you searching for Gocek in
Turkey? For Fethiye in Turkey? Well, they may be found at opposite inland corners of the large gulf 35
nautical miles east of Rhodes Town, with Gocek fifteen miles by road from the international airport at
Dalaman. There we can arrange yacht charters cruising Turkey and Greece. We can put you aboard a
charter yacht and show you the flat sailing waters of the Gulfs of Gocek and Fethiye, show you Uluc
Ali's paths along the coasts of Lycia and Ionia, show you Kilic Ali's 1572 route down the coast of
Turkey and among Aegean islands of Greece en route to besiege Venetian Crete, or show you Francis
Beaufort's 1811 route east along the coast of Lycia to Pamphylia and Cilicia. Beaufort, he of wind
and sea scale fame, later Royal Navy Hydrographer, termed this entire coast from Lycia to Cilicia
after its dark ages ruler; Karamania, he called it, in honor of the post-Seljuk, pre-Ottoman Turkish
state which held sway here in the 13th, 14th, and 15th centuries. During Beaufort's years, however,
this coast was ruled by war lords and pirates and rabble-rousers. A wounded veteran of the Napoleonic
wars, Beaufort came close to losing his life to a Turkish musket ball taken while surveying the Gulf
of Iskenderun. But that was almost two hundred years ago, and even Beaufort continued to marvel at
things seen here, writing a best-selling travelogue entitled, you guessed it, Karamania. Come
see for yourself. Come charter cruising in Turkey. Come charter cruising in both Greece and Turkey.
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