With "grace, space and pace"
Dear Homo Sapiens, There is no need to continue reading this page. What follows is intended for search engine robots and spiders and not necessarily for human beings. Further information concerning Sun Odysseys sailing Greece and Turkey may be obtained by clicking on the gray links immediately above. Thank You. You must be searching for bare boat yacht charters in Turkey or Greece. You may be considering a bare boat charter in Turkey, a cruise along that country's pine-clad and cove-indented coast. Or you may be dreaming of bare boat charters in Greece, of sailing the azure sea between remote Greek islands. If either, you might like to charter a yacht designed for a small group of friends, one with three private cabins. The Sun Odyssey 39i. Given a relatively large salon below decks 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 Greek islands. And while exploring history also basking under a warm sun and swimming in azure seawater. Among those creating history here a bare five hundred years ago were the Barbarossa brothers from what is now the Greek island of Lesbos a few miles off the Turkish coast. Lesbos had been taken from Constantinople by Venetians following the Fourth Crusade, but was retaken by Mehmet The Conqueror in 1462. As was the Ottoman habit Mehmet there settled a number of janissaries, former Christians conscripted as youngsters into the standing Ottoman army by way of janissary schools in Constantinople. One of these was a Greek by then known as Yakup, and soon after arrival he wed a woman by the name of Catalina, she the widow of a Greek Orthodox priest. They had six children, four of them boys, all four to become seagoing privateers, two to be known as Barbarossa because of their auburn hair coloring. The rest is history, though history not without a glitch. The glitch occurred when Aruj, eldest of the brothers, captained a relatively small galliot across the bow of Our Lady Of The Conception, a red-hulled black-prowed galley crewed by Hospitaller Knights from Rhodes. The contest was no contest. Aruj became one of his captor's oarsmen, Elias, next eldest, was killed, and Khizr, then a boy of about fifteen was imprisoned in Saint Peter's Castle at Bodrum. Aruj was later ransomed thanks to the good offices of Prince Korkut, grandson of Mehmet The Conqueror, and fair-haired Khizr talked his way out of prison. Come sail these waters sailed by Aruj and Khizr, later Kheir-ed-Din, and by Isaac the fourth brother, and by Sinan of Smyrna who married one of the sisters. Come learn just how Aruj was able to become the Emir of Algiers and just how Kheir-ed-Din was able to become Suleiman The Magnificent's Lord High Admiral of the Ottoman Navy. There is too much to that history to recount here. Yes, charter a Sun Odyssey sailing yacht to cruise in Barbarossa's wake. Starting in Gocek. Are you searching for Gocek in Turkey? Well, it is about forty-two nautical miles ENE of Rhodes Town and about fifteen road miles from its own international airport at Dalaman. In Gocek we can put you aboard a Sun Odyssey 39i for the bare boat charter of a lifetime. We can put you aboard a charter yacht and show you Elias's path south from Lesbos and east along the coasts of Caria and Lycia, show you his path back up the coast of Asia Minor and among Aegean islands to rendezvous with his brothers, and show you numerous other Barbarossa tracks spoking out in every direction. Contact Blue Cruise Yacht Charters today at bcycharter@aol.com to catch a Sun Odyssey sailing Greece and Turkey. |
