Mediterranean · Turkey
Pine-clad coves, ancient Lycian ruins, and the warmest waters in the Mediterranean.
The Destination
Seven days around the Gulf of Fethiye, the most sheltered warm-water sailing in the Mediterranean — the recorded track of one real week. Pine runs down to the shoreline, Lycian and Byzantine ruins sit half-underwater, and a different quiet cove closes each night: the Byzantine paths on Gemiler, the ghost town at Kayaköy, the sunken bath walls at Cleopatra’s Bay you swim straight through. Short passages, glassy mornings, and a table that leans Turkish and generous — mezes off the water, bread from a stone oven.
Duration
7 days / 6 nights
Season
May – October
Highlights
Signature experiences · Turkey
A few of the experiences guests remember most — any one can shape the week you sail.
Launch from 1,900 metres above the Blue Lagoon — the dinghy waits on the sand.
€120 pp · arranged by usSteam, marble and a foam scrub in an old Fethiye bathhouse.
Arranged by usFresh gözleme on the iron pan over open flame, cooked with a local host.
Arranged by usMats on the sand, the catamaran at anchor, the day starting slow.
Part of every week“Tell me which one your group would love — I’ll route the week around it.” — V.
The boats
Step aboard each one — deck, saloon, every cabin, and the layout.
Fourteen metres·four ensuite doubles·eight guests
Twin hulls sail flat — no heeling, no sliding plates. The boat most of our first-time guests learn to love sailing on.
Every space aboard · 9 views
From €19,000 the week, whole boat · €2,375 per person.
Ask VincentPlanning your trip
Tap a month · sea temperature shown on the curve
Our favourite month. Warm sea, the Meltemi easing, the coves quiet again.
Practical noteDalaman Airport (DLM) is about 30 minutes from Göcek and Fethiye. We start and end around Göcek. The Gulf of Göcek is beautifully sheltered; the Meltemi builds through the afternoons in high summer, so we sail the mornings and anchor early.
The week is yours
Every week is the whole boat, for the whole week. The only question is who fills it.
Your own people
A fortieth, a reunion, two families, a honeymoon with company. You bring the people; we shape the week around them.
Plan a private week→A group you lead
Charter the whole boat for the people you host. You run your programme ashore and at anchor; we run the boat, the crew and the table. Company weeks work exactly this way.
Host your group→Not sure which fits? Tell Vincent about your people — he’ll tell you the boat.
From the ship's log
Hover a photo — the guest who was there tells you about it.
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The week begins on the quay at Fethiye, ringed by pine hills with the Taurus mountains beyond. Settle into your cabin, a cold drink in hand, and let the marina noise fall away. Nothing to do tonight but meet the boat and the crew, and watch the light go.
South to Gemiler Island, where Byzantine churches and stone paths climb straight from the water — best walked as the sun drops and the day-boats thin out. We anchor for the night in a cool, clear bay nearby, mezes on the table and the hills going dark around us.
A morning ashore at Kayaköy, a hillside of empty stone houses left behind when its Greek families departed in 1923 — quiet, moving, unlike anywhere else on the coast. Then a snorkel stop in clear water and a long sail into Kapı Creek, a pine-walled inlet where we tie to the shore for the night.
A slow morning threading the little islands scattered across the gulf, swimming off the boat between them. By afternoon we reach Göcek, a low, green waterfront town of chandlers and cafés — time to wander the market, restock, and feel land under your feet before dinner back aboard.
We push off early for a swim in open, glassy water, then a guided meditation while the boat barely moves beneath you. The afternoon drifts us into Boynuz Bükü, a quiet bay closed in by rock and pine, where dinner comes off the water and the only sound after dark is the rigging.
Into Cleopatra's Bay, where ancient bath walls lie just under the surface and you can swim straight through the old doorways. Yoga ashore in the morning shade, an unhurried afternoon, then an open-fire dinner cooked by a local family — bread pulled hot from a stone oven and eaten under the trees.
One last morning swim in a hidden lagoon on the way back, the water impossibly clear, before we turn for Fethiye and the close of the week. For anyone still chasing height, there's an optional paraglide off the mountain above Ölüdeniz — the whole coast laid out far below.
