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You may be looking for a motor sailing schooner on Blue Cruise along Turkey's Turquoise Coast. Or
you may alternatively be looking for a motor sailing schooner chartering among neighboring Aegean
islands of Greece. You may be considering a yacht charter vacation with family. Or a yacht charter
holiday with friends or associates. Why not carry through with these interests by chartering a
schooner with accommodations for twelve guests. Like the motor sailing schooner Prenses Gelidonya.
What would your family or friends think about a crewed gulet sailing the wake of a late Bronze Age
trader? Sailing it carefully? The |
Bronze Age
Princess Gelidonia was a Canaanite, or early Phoenician, sailing vessel dated to about
1200 BC carrying a cargo of bronze scrap and copper ingots from Cyprus to ports unknown. Before
foundering on islets off the southwestern extremity of the Gulf of Antalya, the extremity known
as Cape Gelidonia, she was engaged in the recycling of bronze. She was
one of the first known conservationists. The excavation of her cargo beginning in 1960 taught us
that Homer's references to Phoenicians at the time of Troy were not erroneous as some had thought,
that Phoenicians were in the Aegean at that time, that Lycians and Carians and Ionian Greeks were
then or not long afterward exposed to the Phoenician alphabet. The extant Prenses Gelidonya is
not 3200 years old as is that trader excavated in 1960. In fact, she is only just reaching her
third birthday. Like her predecessor, though, she is cruising the coast of Asia Minor and among
neighboring Greek islands. She is cruising between Antalya and Kusadasi, between Greek 
Kastellorizon and Greek Mykonos. She is
cruising an Asian coast and among Aegean islands ruled by the Byzantine Empress Irene in the late
8th century AD, an area much of which had earlier been ruled by the two Queens Artemisia of Caria
in the fifth and fourth centuries BC. Irene, by the way, was the only woman to rule the Roman
Empire. Would you like to cruise this same area? A part of Irene's Roman Empire? While you holiday?
Would you like to have a family holiday aboard a crewed motor-sailing schooner cruising the
Turquoise Coast of Turkey? Or to have a group holiday aboard a charter gulet proceeding leisurely
from one enchanting locale to another enchanting locale? Would you like to charter a sailing
schooner to cruise Greece? The Cyclades in Greece? Would you like to charter a crewed schooner to
cruise from the coast of Turkey into the central Aegean? Starting in Bodrum? Are you searching for
Bodrum in Turkey? Artemisia's Halicarnassus? Well, it is eleven nautical miles NE of Kos Town on the
north shore of the Ceramic Gulf. There or elsewhere we can put you aboard a motor-sailing schooner
with an experienced crew able to show you the the coast of Turkey, to show you Artemisia The
Younger's path down the coast of Caria to Rhodes, to show you the route of Persian flotillas
commanded by Artemisia the Elder through the Greek Dodecanese and Eastern Sporades. Charter Prenses
Gelidonya, a superb motor sailing schooner sailing Greece and Turkey and knowledgeable of local
history. Contact Blue Cruise Yacht Charters today at