A Smaller Crewed Yacht Sailing Greece And Turkey A Luxury Crewed Yacht Sailing Greece And Turkey A Bare Boat Sailing Greece And Turkey This page last updated on 03/20/2008 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 crewed yachts sailing Greece and Turkey may be obtained by clicking on the gray links immediately above. Thank You. You must be searching for a crewed yacht sailing Greece or Turkey. It is simply not likely you are searching for a tirhandil. Most searchers have never heard of tirhandils even though the Turkish tirhandil is directly descended from the Greek caique. They are both so-called double-enders having pointed sterns as well as pointed bows, the pointed stern more sea-kindly in a short sea such as the Greek Aegean. So, you are searching for a crewed yacht sailing Greece or Turkey. Presumably in comfort. Well, then, a crewed yacht with a pointed stern may be just what you need when sailing Greece. You have therefore found the right web page, the web page best fitting your search term. Could you be dreaming of island-hopping across the Greek Aegean? Of island-hopping from sugar-cube encrusted Mykonos to sugar-cube encrusted Paros? Of island-hopping from the mid-Aegean Cyclades to the eastern Aegean Dodecanese and Sporades? You can do these things in comfort aboard a Turkish-flag tirhandil called Tirhandila. You can also sail the Aegean coast of Turkey, a part of the Blue Cruise which continues along the Mediterranean coast of Turkey. Were you thinking all along of a Blue Cruise along the Turkish coast? One meandering from pine-encircled clear-water cove to pine-encircled clear-water cove? Or are you now hoping to do both on a single holiday or on your honeymoon? Well, both can be done! You may do all of the above aboard Tirhandila! You might begin in Bodrum, not far from the birthplace of Turgut Reis. Son of a Greek mother and a father of unknown pedigree likely Greek, as well, and better known as Dragut, Turgut sailed the coast of ancient Caria, cruising from the Aegean to the eastern Mediterranean and back in search of other shipping. You might do it to get away from others, sailing from Bodrum to Knidos to Datca and then jumping off to the Greek island of Simi. From Simi you might continue on to Rhodes, the Greek island once controlled by Knights Hospitaller who constructed the grand fortifications which today surround Rhodes Town. And who were often encountered by Turgut in his search for other shipping. You might do this on your honeymoon. Or you might retrace Cleopatra's own honeymoon route along the coast of Caria and among Greek Dodecanese islands. It's not a honeymoon, you say. Well, you might like to have an intimate holiday in any event! You might like to have an intimate holiday aboard a crewed yacht sailing the Turquoise Coast of Turkey, jumping off to the occasional Greek island. As you may realize already, Turgut was a corsair. That was early on. Later in the 1530's he was a lieutenant of the younger Barbarossa brother, and in 1538 as an Ottoman naval commander he participated with the younger Barbarossa in the battle of Preveza. A part of the opposing Holy League armada commanded by Andrea Doria was a squadron of galleys belonging to those same Knights Hospitaller. Should you sail north from Bodrum rather than east you might eventually come to Lesbos. Lesbos was the birthplace of Kheir-ed-Din, the younger Barbarossa, another son of a Greek mother, Catalina was her name, and of a Greek or Albanian father retired from Sultan Mehmet's janissaries. Kheir-ed-Din was a ladies man, among other characteristics. Did you know he attempted in 1535 to kidnap Giulia Gonzaga then known as the most beautiful woman in Italy? He failed only because she escaped bare on a barebacked stallion in the middle of the night. Did you know that in his sixties Kheir-ed-Din did kidnap and wed another Italian beauty? And that following the wedding they honeymooned through the Cyclades? Well, we can put you aboard a crewed tirhandil for the holiday or honeymoon of a lifetime. We can put you aboard a double-ended tirhanndil with an experienced crew able to show you Turgut's paths up and down the coast of Turkey, able to show you Barbarossa's routes through the Greek Aegean from Lesbos to Mykonos and Paros. Tirhandila, a superb crewed yacht sailing Greece and Turkey. Contact Blue Cruise Yacht Charters today at blcryacht@aol.com |
