Turkey Yacht Charter
Bodrum Castle takes center stage in a city that offers both modern marinas and traditional boatbuilders.
Turkey yacht charters offer a chance to explore the Turkish coast as well as neighboring Greece. The best time of year for yacht chartering in Turkey is from April to October.
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With charter regions that overlap Greece, Turkey abounds with history and coves to explore. Most crewed charters are on gulets, which offer a unique local flavor. For generations these two-masted wooden vessels have been used for transport and fishing. Now designed with comfort in mind, they come fully crewed.
One popular yacht charter location is Bodrum, a historically significant city with an elegant marina and rich boatbuilding tradition. Other popular charter bases include Marmaris and Gocek. Prime charter season runs from April to October.
Amanda Armstrong from Burgess Charter said in a January 2008 Yachtworld Magazine:
“The southern coast of Turkey offers a marvellous combination of small picturesque towns, quiet beautiful bays and rich archaeological sites that give the place a timeless quality I love. Depending on what your interests are, when planning a cruising itinerary, I might suggest exploring the many inlets in the Gulf of Fethiye, or venturing up the Dalyan River past the dramatic Lycian rock tombs to the site of Ancient Caunos and the hot sulphur mud baths upstream. Other highlights include the ruined city of Ancient Knidos, the imposing Castle of St Peter in Bodrum with its museum of underwater archaeology and snorkelling amongst the ruins off the spectacular island of Kekova.
“Göçek is a good starting point for a Turkish Coast cruise, while boarding in Duadasi enables a convenient visit to magnificent Ephesus and is ideal for combining Turkey with island hopping through the nearby Dodecanese Islands of Greece, such as Samos, Patmos, Leros, Kalymnos and Kos.”
Read Kim Kavin’s article about chartering in Turkey
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