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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, and nothing to do with Robin
Hood. Or perhaps you are seeking information concerning Seqenenre 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
middle of the sixteenth century. During the middle of the sixteenth century before the Christian era,
that is. That's not him below but rather his sister and wife Ahhotep. We know little of Tao II himself,
mostly that of the two his wife was the more attractive and that he came to a violent end perhaps in a
confrontation with Sea People from what is now Turkey. On the point, though, this page concerns a
crewed charter catamaran cruising in Greece and Turkey named Tao II. Are you thinking of a catamaran
charter in Turkey? Or of a catamaran cruising 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, Dragut was born to another name in about 1485
on the shores of what had been Caria, and he took to the sea in fishing craft at a young age as did
most of his coastal brethren. Early in his second decade, however, Dragut was brought to the attention
of a devsirme party conscripting Christian youth into the Ottoman standing army. His immediate
history thereafter is one of janissary schooling. Assigned the Muslim name Turgut, he received a
first-class janissary education in Constantinople apparently including a stint in the artillery school
at Tophane in Galata, apparently because by his late-teens he had developed a proficiency in gunnery
and was dispatched with others to Mamluk Egypt then threatened by Persian expansion. While details of
his Egyptian experience are lost to history, in 1504 or 1505 his gunnery proficiency came to the
attention of Sinan of Smyrna and of Acsac Reis, corsairs sailing out of Alexandria with letters of
marque from Egyptian authorities. At sea he proved to also have an aptitude for navigation. An able
gunner and an able navigator, his share of 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 and
Acsac but with Khizr 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 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 1565 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, both cities proximate to their own international airports. In Bodrum
or elsewhere
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