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This page last updated on 12/16/2007
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Further information on sailing the Aegean islands of Greece and the Turquoise Coast of Turkey may
be obtained by clicking on the blue links immediately above. Thank You. You may be
searching for a crewed charter yacht sailing from off-the-beaten-track Greek Aegean island to
off-the-beaten-track Greek Aegean island. You may be searching for a crewed charter yacht sailing the
Aegean and Mediterranean coasts of Turkey. You may be dreaming of basking under a warm sun while
floating on an azure sea. You may be considering a visit to the crossroads of history. With your
children who have missed something at school. Or you may hope to do all of the above. How about doing
all of the above aboard a crewed charter yacht with its own history at the crossroads of history, a
crewed charter yacht which knows how to get you there and what to do once arrived. You might charter
such a yacht to sail Sinan Reis's early-sixteenth century tracks along the Aegean coast of Turkey and
among Aegean islands of Greece then Venetian. Sinan's tracks while hunting for easy prey south of
Naxos, or running 
from the Genovese
fleet of Andrea Doria. Or perhaps it was the Venetian fleet of Andrea Doria. At various times Doria
commanded one or the other or both at once. So too did Andrea Doria's nephew Giovanetto
Doria, both playing hide and seek with the wily Sinan who learned his sailing on the Imbat
while dodging sand banks in the Gulf of Smyrna. Here we are speaking of the Sinan who by the age of
20 co-owned with Turgut Reis
(Dragut) and others a small galliot operating in the early years of the
sixteenth century out of Mameluk Alexandria and into mid-Aegean Cyclades. We are not speaking of
Sinan Pasha, Croatian brother of Grand Vezir Rustem Pasha, who later in the same century became
Kapudan Pasha or Lord High Admiral of the Ottoman Navy. Nor are we speaking of Cigalazade Yusuf
Sinan Pasha from Messina who still later in the sixteenth century also became Kapudan Pasha. We are
speaking of one of Curtogoli's captains at the 1522 invasion of Rhodes. And we are speaking of one of
Kheir-ed-Din Barbarossa's captains at the 1538 Battle of Preveza when Andrea Doria and his Papal
fleet were bested. Would you like to cruise in Sinan's wake while holidaying on an azure sea? Would
you like to have a family holiday aboard a crewed sailing yacht cruising the crossroads of history?
With your school-age children? Or to have dear friends holiday with you aboard a charter yacht
proceeding leisurely from here to there? Or from there to here? Would you like to charter a crewed
yacht sailing the near Dodecanese in order to reach the far Cyclades? Starting in Turkey? Starting
in Izmir? Are you searching for Izmir in Turkey? Well, it's about thirty-five miles up the Gulf of
Smyrna. In fact, it was Smyrna until well after Sinan! All three Sinans! Izmir or Smyrna or
elsewhere we can put you aboard a proper crewed yacht for the holiday of a lifetime. We can put you
aboard a charter yacht with an experienced crew able to show you the entire coast of Turkey, to show
you the haunts, some say corsair haunts, of Sinan of Smyrna and of his many brothers-in-arms. And we
can discuss where Sinan was headed when and why. Contact the
Sailing Yacht T.G. Ellyson today at
tgeyacht@aol.com