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recycle its own waste. In either event or neither you should read on because you have come upon a sailing tirhandil offering a holiday not to be forgotten. Most web surfers have never heard of tirhandils even though
the Turkish tirhandil is directly descended from the Greek caique. They are both 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 have found a crewed yacht sailing Greece and Turkey in comfort. You may already 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 an environment-friendly tirhandil called Trippin. You can
also sail the Aegean coast of Turkey, a part of the Blue Cruise which continues along that country's eastern
Mediterranean coast. 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 Greece
and Turkey on a single holiday? Or on your honeymoon? Well, both can be done! You may do both aboard
Trippin. You might begin in Bodrum, Trippin's home port not far from the birthplace of Turgut
Reis, one of Turkey's more famous sea captains, later an Ottoman admiral and emir of Tripoli. Son of a Greek
mother and a father of unidentified pedigree, and known in the west as Dragut, fair-haired Turgut was born in
1485 almost under the walls of Bodrum's Saint Peters Castle, the formidable redoubt still standing, built and
then manned by the equally formidable Latin Christian Knights Hospitaller or Knights of Rhodes. Similarly he
was born within sight of Hospitaller-occupied Kos a few miles distant. Like most orthodox Greeks he would
have been raised to despise Latins as Fourth Crusade despoilers of Constantinople and uninvited occupiers of
Greek Aegean islands. In 1497 at the age of 12 he joined the Ottoman military. As the Ottoman standing army
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was then composed entirely of conscripted Christians,
and as it is unlikely Ottoman conscriptors conscripted under the noses of the Hospitallers, it is thought Turgut's
peasant mother took him to Ottoman authorities in search of a better life. And if measured in fame and fortune,
it was a better life he found. As with other conscripts, Turgut received a first-class education likely including
a stint in Constantinople's artillery school at Tophane in Galata. Sometime in 1503 or 1504 Turgut's janissary
company of gunnery experts was deployed to Egypt then threatened by Persian expansion, but soon many of
his compatriots including the bolukbasi or company commander fell victim to the plague. Turgut migrated
to Alexandria where his gunnery proficiency brought him to the attention of Sinan of Smyrna and Acsac Reis.
Both were master mariners occasionally in the employ of Mamluk Sultan Qansuh ruling both Syria and Egypt as
well as occasionally in service to Ottoman Prince Korkut, governor of Antalya Province. With Sinan and Acsac,
Turgut sailed the coast of Turkey, cruising from the Aegean to the eastern Mediterranean and back in search
of the means to a better life. You might do the same, cruise for a better life, 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 Hospitaller Knights who constructed the grand fortifications depicted above
which today surround Rhodes Town. And who were often encountered by Turgut in his search for a better life.
You might do this on your honeymoon. Or you might retrace Cleopatra's own honeymoon route along the coast of
Turkey and among Greek Dodecanese islands en route to Actium. 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 already realize,
Turgut was a corsair. Later in the 1520's he was one of the younger Barbarossa brother's corsair sea captains,
and in 1538 still under the younger Barbarossa he was an Ottoman squadron commander at the Battle of Preveza.
By then he had been joined by his own brother also seeking a better life. A part of the opposing Holy League
armada commanded by Andrea Doria was a squadron of galleys belonging to those same Hospitallers, lifelong foes
who in 1530 had relocated to Malta where they became and are known today as the Knights of Malta. Both Turgut
and his brother were to lose their lives at Malta, the brother during Turgut's otherwise successful 1551 raid
on Gozo and he at age 80 during the Ottoman's unsuccessful 1565 siege of Malta's big island. 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, Katerina was her name, and of a Greek or
Albanian father retired from Sultan Mehmet's janissary corps. Kheir-ed-Din was a ladies man, among other
characteristics. 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. In his sixties
Kheir-ed-Din did kidnap and wed another Italian beauty. Following the wedding they honeymooned through the
Greek Aegean. 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 tirhandil 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, and able to show you Cleopatra's honeymoon route from Kos to Actium, later known
as Preveza. Trippin, a superb crewed yacht sailing Greece and Turkey at the crossroads of history. Contact
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