Aegean Sailing

When talking about yachting and luxury charter yachts I should tell about Aleida. Her story is a case study for business management schools. What makes her story more interesting to me than those of Paris Hilton and Donald Trump is that she is a retired office worker and mom! Aleida is a German Frau worked and retired in Turkey. She married a Turkish man and grew up her children. Her sons graduated as boat building engineers. She borrowed business loan for start up capital from her brothers in Germany as angel investors. Aleida and her sons started up their yacht charter company Eser Yachting in Marmaris. They built their own luxury charter boat Lyra, a gulet, traditional Aegean schooner with two masts and five sails. Now they manage their own flotilla in Marmaris. Salute Aleida!

May 30, Saturday evening. We are in Marmaris Marina, meeting on board. Marina is full of sails, boats, goulettes, schooners. I notice one of them: "Bonbon". We watch the sunset among countless masts, strings, riggings, meet the people at the dinner on board, and chat.

Luxury charter yacht Lyra of Marmaris sailing at Aegean Mediterranean Sea at Gulf of Fethiye. Crew setting full sail with every stitch of canvas like in good old days.

Gulets at Bodrum Marina , originally uploaded by voyageAnatolia.blogspot.com . Crewed and skippered luxury charter yachts gulets and reflections on the sea at Bodrum Marina.

Gulets at Bodrum Marina , originally uploaded by voyageAnatolia.blogspot.com . Crewed and skippered luxury charter yachts gulets and reflections on the sea at Bodrum Marina, in front of medieval Bodrum Castle of the Knights of St. John of Jerusalem of Rhodes and of Malta and Bodrum Museum of Underwater Archaeology.

Traditional Aegean Mediterranean sailboat gulet under construction at Bodrum Icmeler boatyard, which will be a luxury charter yacht in Bodrum Marina soon.

Crewed and skippered luxury charter yachts gulets and reflections on the Aegean Sea at Bodrum Marina.

Crewed and skippered luxury charter yachts gulets and reflections on the sea at Bodrum Marina.

Looking like Noah's Ark, this gulet under construction at Bodrum Icmeler boatyards will be a luxury charter yacht at Bodrum Marina soon. Photo originally uploaded by voyageAnatolia.blogspot.com . Roman shipwreck at Bodrum Museum: Bodrum Gulets' Ancestor? Boat building is a traditional business in Bodrum since ancient times in Halicarnassus and ancient Lycia, Caria, Lydia region of Turkey. The Uluburun Shipwreck, discovered off the south coast of Turkey in the Mediterranean Sea near the city of Kaş in the province of Antalya, dated of the Late Bronze Age period, 1400 B.C, 3400 years ago.

Sailing Aegean Sea at Marmaris and Fethiye route.

Set Sail! , originally uploaded by voyageAnatolia.blogspot.com . Sailing at Aegean Sea from Marmaris to Fethiye.

Göcek Ahead , originally uploaded by voyageAnatolia . Heading Aegean Islands and anchorage bays at Fethiye Gulf.

Full Sail at Fethiye Bay , originally uploaded by voyageAnatolia.blogspot.com . Luxury yacht charter at the Gulf of Fethiye.

Mediterranean gulet Lyra sailing all sails set, with every stitch of canvas like in good old days, while I am on chase aboard an avon dinghy with an outboard motor to take this photograph.

Set Sail! , originally uploaded by voyageAnatolia.blogspot.com . Captain ordered! "Set Sail!" We set sail to the islands and turquoise anchorage bays of Aegean Mediterranean Coast of Marmaris and Fethiye.