The success of our holidays comes from the fact that this extraordinary, beautiful and ancient coastline is where we have our roots. We grew up on the sea, learning in the boatyards, designing our own boats, sailing and racing them, and for fun also cruising with our families and friends the very same waters we now navigate with our guests. Because of this we understand what works, and year after year we get better at sharing it.

So lets start in Bodrum, ancient Halicarnassus, the laid-back heart of the Turkish Riviera. This pretty town of low-rise whitewashed houses draped with bougainvillea lies across two natural crescent harbours punctuated by the magnificent crusader Castle. The Museum Of Underwater Archaeology here exhibits ships wrecked along the ancient trading routes that our Gulet sailing charters cruise. Bodrum is also home to the Mausoleum, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. The Bodrum peninsula is also famous for its state-of-the-art yacht marinas, international sailing races, arts festivals, and a vibrant dining and night life

In the 1960s, led by poet Cevat Sakir Kabaagacli, the Fisherman of Halicarnassus, this special region began to attract artists and the intelligentsia. These visitors were the first to establish the blue cruise for pleasure after the sponge divers who had been making their living on wooden boats along the same routes for centuries before. Today the creative community still thrives alongside the sea people, as does the dreamy allure of the land and sea.