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Further information concerning Sun Odyssey charter yachts cruising Turkey and Greece may be obtained
by clicking on the gray links immediately above. Thank You. Are you searching for a charter
yacht on which to cruise Turkey or Greece? Could you be dreaming of sun on an azure Aegean? Could you
be imagining your own odyssey cruising in the wake of Odysseus heading south from Homer's Troy? Could
you be contemplating a sun odyssey? A cruise along the coast of Turkey in a Sun Odyssey? Or
contemplating a Sun Odyssey cruising among Aegean Islands of Greece? Putting into the Greek island of
Lipsi, for example, said to be the home of Homer's Calypso? Are you hoping to meet that siren who
seduced Odysseus and held him there for seven years? How about doing these things aboard a Sun Odyssey
charter yacht with family accommodations. How about bringing your children to the crossroads of history
for a cruise through history. How about giving them an appreciation for geography, as well! How about
instilling these fundamentals your local school system seems to have ignored. Yes, charter a Sun
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the coast of Turkey's ancient Caria. As did the
Athenians Alcibiades and Melasander. As did Alexander. As did the Barbarossa brothers. And as did the
chevaliers of France Gabriel and Maximilien-Francois Themericourt. Do history and geography
while you holiday. Get in some archaeology, too! Would you not like to holiday cruise these routes,
continuing out among Aegean islands of Greece. Themericourt routes. Would you not like to have your
family holiday with you aboard a charter yacht cruising leisurely from one historically fascinating
locale to another historically fascinating locale? Discussing history along the way? Pictured to the
right, Gabriel de Themericourt was born in 1646 in the Val d'Oise of northern France. At the age of
17 he obtained a letter-of-marque from the Knights of Malta authorizing him to equip a ship at
Valletta and to hunt Muslim prey. Within a year Themericourt was patrolling the Aegean between Kos
and Nisiros where he captured an enemy vessel mounting 22 guns. He returned one year later in 1665
aboard the captured vessel then flying his own standard. In May of that year with two other corsairs
in company he intercepted in the Samos Channel the annual caravan from Alexandria bound for
Constantinople. A caravan escorted by 22 warships!!! Was he mad!!! Following several hours of combat
in that narrow waterway Themericourt and his two fellow corsairs had seized four merchantmen and put
the rest of the caravan to flight. Warships included!!! This at the age of 19!!! Exactly three years
later with his younger brother Maximilien-Francois captaining the 22-gunner, with Gabriel flying his
flag from a new 24-gun frigate, and with two other corsairs in company, Themericourt intercepted an
Ottoman fleet bound for the siege of Candia (Iraklion) numbering 54 war galleys with 3,000 janissaries
embarked. Was he mad??? Or merely too young to know better??? Well, at the end of the day 500
janissaries lay dead and 33 Ottoman galleys had gone to the bottom of the sea. Corsair losses were
negligible. Collapsing this story to its unreal conclusion, no, Themericourt was not mad. There is an
explanation. The younger Themericourt died in combat in 1671 while Gabriel was captured on the coast
of Libya one year later. Taken in chains to Adrianople (Edirne) where Sultan Mehmet IV was in residence,
Gabriel was offered at age 26 command of the Ottoman Navy, the hand in marriage of one of the sultan's
daughters, and a large dowry in exchange for renouncing his faith. He refused, even following 15 days
of torture, was decapitated, and his cadaver burned in public where it lay for one week with these
words posted above the ashes: "The Scourge of the Sea is dead!" Come join us for the rest of
this fascinating saga, including the explanation. Come join us in Gocek. Are you searching for Gocek
in Turkey? Well, it is in the NW corner of the Gulf of Fethiye 42 nautical miles ENE of Rhodes Town.
It is also 25 minutes by road from the international airport at Dalaman. In Gocek we can put you
aboard a charter yacht for the odyssey of a lifetime. We can put you aboard a Sun Odyssey and point
you toward the flat sailing waters of the Gulfs of Gocek and Fethiye and direct you toward Gabriel de
Themericourt's various paths along the coast of Turkey and among nearby Aegean islands of Greece.
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