This ketch-rigged wooden sailing yacht
Accommodations for guests consist of one master cabin
and three double cabins
A comfortable salon and adjoining navigation station open to the quarterdeck
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Further information about cruising in the Turkish and Greek Aegean may be obtained by clicking on the
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Aegean, either for a yacht cruising the Turkish Aegean or for a yacht cruising the Greek
Aegean or for a yacht cruising both. Alternatively, you may be seeking a definition for the Greek
word xenos, pronounced zenos. Should that be the case, well, xenos means
strange or exotic, while the root xeno is used in words such as xenophobia
meaning fear of strange or exotic things, or more often, fear of aliens. But this web page deals not
with definitions but rather with a yacht having the name Xenos II cruising the Turkish and Greek
Aegean, and Xenos II and her guests might be described as xenophiles, that is, as lovers of the
exotic, as lovers of the pine-clad cove-indented turquoise-watered Aegean coast of Turkey, as lovers
of potted-geranium and bougainvillea-draped blue-and-white speckled islands dotting an azure sea
representing the eastern extremity of modern Greece. Of modern Greece. There was a time, of course,
when western Turkey was |
itself the eastern
extremity of Greece. There was a time when all of modern Turkey was a part of the Greek-speaking
Byzantine Empire. There was a time when the Greek father of history, Herodotus, wrote the first
transcribed history while resident in Halicarnassus on what is now the Turkish Aegean coast. There was
a time when the even-earlier histories of Homer were recounted principally along the same Aegean coast
principally about Troy located on that coast. There was a time, in 401 BC, when an Athenian named
Xenophon (depicted to the right) gathered at Sardis with a mercenary army comprised of other
Greeks from all of the Greek-speaking city-states along the Aegean coast of modern Turkey. Known to
history as the Ten Thousand, this army was pledged to Cyrus the Younger, then the Persian great
king's satrap (or local king) governing those same Greek Aegean city-states, and the purpose of both
the army and Cyrus was the great king's overthrow. And so began a march through modern Turkey to the
heart of ancient Persia. There, at a place called Cunaxa in the Sunni Triangle of Iraq, the Ten
Thousand under Cyrus whipped a larger number of Persians under the Great King Artaxerxes II. But Cyrus
lost his life in the encounter and the Greek generals, having won the battle, then proceeded to lose
the war. And their heads. In this way Xenophon came to command the Ten Thousand and led them on a long
and difficult march north again through modern Turkey to the Pontus Euxinus or Black Sea. There they
took ship and sailed west past Byzantium through the Hellespont and down the coast of Aeolis to
Ephesus in Ionia where Xenophon gave thanks for the survival of most of the Ten Thousand at the Temple
of Artemis. He was later to write an account of the Ten Thousand's chapter in history entitled
Anabasis, and Anabasis is still selling at your local book store. It should have been
required reading for Donald Rumsfeld in 2003 but wasn't. Almost a century before Xenophon a Greek
philosopher named Zeno from Elea in Greek Italy became famous for his paradoxes. One of these paradoxes
involves the tortoise and the hare (Achilles). According to Aristotle, it goes like this: In a race,
the quickest runner can never overtake the slowest, since the pursuer must first reach the point whence
the pursued started, so that the slower must always hold a lead. Now this paradox appears to have
been adapted from Aesop. Aesop is thought by some to have been born perhaps 50 years earlier than Zeno
at the same Sardis where Xenophon and 
the Ten Thousand gathered, and in fact Xenophon makes reference to Aesop in his writing. Aesop's fable
goes something like this: A hare one day ridiculed a slow-moving tortoise. In response, the tortoise
challenged the hare to a race. The hare soon left the tortoise far behind and, confident of winning, he
decided to take a nap midway through the course. When he awoke, however, he found that his competitor,
crawling slowly but steadily, had already won the race. It appears that Donald Rumsfeld was as
unaware of Aesop as of Xenophon, and millions are now paying the price for his educational shortcomings.
You may be dreaming of a cruise through the Turkish and Greek Aegean. While you may already be attuned
to Greek history and philosophy, you may wish to see for yourself this crossroads of history and
philosophy. Well, come see it with friends or family charter-cruising aboard Xenos II. Come cruise the
length of Aegean Turkey from Troy to Ephesus to Halicarnassus. Come cruise among neighboring Aegean
islands of Greece. Do you already plan to holiday in Greece or Turkey? Would you like to holiday aboard
a sailing yacht chartered in Turkey? Would you like to charter a crewed sailing yacht to cruise the
Aegean from Bodrum (Hallicaranssus)? Are you searching for Bodrum in Turkey? Well, Bodrum and its own
airport may be found 12 nautical miles NNE of Kos Town on the Greek island of the same name, also with
its own airport. In either port you may come aboard Xenos II, a charter sailing yacht offering a
holiday par excellence. Come aboard a crewed charter yacht with an experienced crew able to show
you the Aegean islands of Greece and the Turkish Aegean coast. Xenos II, a proper crewed yacht available
for charter in Greece and Turkey. Contact Blue Cruise Yacht Charters today at