Tao II is an Eleuthera 60 catamaran
A Square-Topped Gaff-Rigged Schooner Cruising Greece And Turkey Another Crewed Catamaran Cruising Greece And Turkey Still Another Crewed Catamaran Cruising Greece And Turkey A Bareboat Catamaran Cruising Greece And Turkey A Monohull Cruising Greece And Turkey Return to Crewed Yachts Summary This page last updated on 07/03/2008 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 catamaran cruising in Greece and Turkey may be obtained by clicking on the gray links immediately above. Thank You. You must be searching for a catamaran cruising Greece and Turkey, probably for a crewed charter catamaran cruising Greece and Turkey. How else might you have come to this web page! Unless you are seeking an increased awareness of Chinese philosophy, for an explanation of tao or dao? If the latter, you have come to the wrong place. This page has nothing to do with tao, nothing to do with Robin Hood. Or perhaps you are seeking information concerning Sekenenra Tao II or Tao II The Brave. Well, the name is the same. Tao II The Brave was ruler of the Theban region of Egypt during the 1560's. Before the Christian era, that is. But we know little of him, mostly that his mummy resides in the Cairo Museum and that he came to a violent end perhaps in a confrontation with Sea People from what is now Turkey. No, this page concerns a crewed charter catamaran cruising in Greece and Turkey. Are you thinking of a catamaran charter in Turkey? Or of a catamaran charter in Greece? Or of both? Would you like to charter a crewed catamaran to cruise the coast of Turkey's ancient Lycia? Home of the Sea People? Or to sail Dragut's tracks along the coast of neighboring Caria and among Greek Aegean islands? While you holiday? While you holiday aboard a crewed catamaran exploring the Turkish coast's many pine-encircled coves? Or while you sail leisurely from one intriguing Aegean island to another? As did Dragut? A sea person himself? Born about 1485 on the shores of what had been Caria, Dragut took to the sea in fishing craft at an early age. In his twelfth year, however, he came to the attention of a janissary-led devsirme party conscripting Christian youth into the Ottoman standing army, and was selected. His immediate history thereafter is somewhat confused. Assigned the Muslim name Turgut and intended for the palace school in Istanbul he instead accompanied the janissary to Mamluk Egypt. There, in Cairo, he was trained in the use of artillery and there the janissary died or otherwise met his end. Dragut next appeared in Egyptian Alexandria where his artillery expertise landed him a position on a galliot commanded by Sinan of Smyrna. At sea he proved to also have an aptitude for navigation. An able gunner and an able navigator, his share of Sinan prize money enabled him over the years to acquire an interest in a merchant brig, and brig profit eventually led to his own galliot. First one galliot, then several. By the 1520's known to his prey as Dragut, a corruption of Turgut, he was vying not just with Sinan but with Kheir-ed-Din Barbarossa as the most feared of Latin-hunting Turkish privateers. The scourge of the Aegean in the early years of the century, he would eventually earn the sobriquet The Drawn Sword of Islam. He remained such until the age of eighty when done in not by his years but by a cannon-shattered rock at the siege of Malta. Why not charter a sailing catamaran to cruise in this sea person's wake. Why not have fun at the crossroads of history. Starting in Bodrum, near Dragut's birthplace. Are you searching for Bodrum in Turkey? Well, it's about twelve nautical miles northeast of Kos Town on the Greek island of Kos. In Bodrum we can put you aboard a crewed catamaran for the holiday of a lifetime. We can put you aboard a catamaran with an experienced crew able to show you the sea Dragut fished as a boy, and able to show you the sea he hunted as a privateer and Ottoman admiral. Tao II, a fine crewed catmaran available for cruising Greece and Turkey. Contact Blue Cruise Yacht Charters today at blcryacht@aol.com |
