Most gulets on this coast motor and call it sailing. This one actually sails. A sailing yacht charter Bodrum aboard a 31-metre Mural hull with a crew of five means you can shut the engines down in a light afternoon breeze and still make ground — and it means dinner is served by a cook who has been provisioning the Bodrum market for years rather than reheating what came out of a freezer.
Built in 2009 by Mural Yachts and refitted for the 2026 season. Length overall 31.32 metres on a 7.66 metre beam, Turkish flagged, cruising at 10 knots under power with 12 available. Four cabins for eight guests, five crew, and 24-hour air conditioning throughout. The wide beam is the specification that matters most: it buys deck space and cabin volume you would normally look for on a boat five metres longer.
Five crew for eight guests is a ratio you feel rather than count. The captain knows which bays are sheltered when the meltemi fills in and which restaurant will hold a mooring for you. The cook works to whatever you actually want to eat rather than a fixed menu, and the deckhands have the tender in the water before you have decided you want it.
She offers three separate dining venues — the aft deck, the saloon and the flybridge — which on a sailing yacht charter Bodrum of this size is unusual and genuinely useful. Breakfast in the shade forward, lunch at anchor aft, dinner up top as the light goes.
The flybridge is the best seat on the boat: a proper helm station with seating around it, high enough to see over the coachroof and out across the gulf. Forward, the deck is left open with sun mattresses laid across it. Aft, a shaded dining area with a fold-down television for anyone who wants to watch something under the stars.
The saloon carries panoramic windows on both sides and an interior helm forward, so the boat can be run from inside when the weather turns. A skylight lights the corridor below rather than leaving it as a dark passage, which is a small detail that changes how the accommodation feels on a sailing yacht charter Bodrum.
Four cabins: a master with a California King berth, a VIP double, and two twins that convert to kings. Every cabin has its own bathroom, its own television and its own safe. Eight guests on a sailing yacht charter Bodrum this wide means cabins the size you would expect on a much larger boat.
She is rigged as a two-masted schooner and, unlike much of the gulet fleet, she is worth sailing. The crew will put canvas up whenever there is enough breeze to justify it, which on the Aegean coast in July usually means most afternoons. Under power she cruises at 10 knots with 12 available.
Rates are quoted per day. Low season is €3,750 and high season €5,950, both 2026 figures, with the crew of five included. For eight guests that works out between roughly €470 and €745 a head a day.
What the rate covers — fuel, provisioning, harbour and marina dues, drinks, the Turkish transit log — is confirmed with the contract, and Aquinox will set out the expected total rather than only the headline figure before you commit to a sailing yacht charter Bodrum.
What is not included is worth saying plainly. Fuel is charged on what you burn, and a week of short hops between anchorages burns very little on a boat that sails. Harbour dues depend on how many nights you spend alongside rather than at anchor, and most weeks here are mostly at anchor. Provisioning runs as a separate account so you pay for what your party actually eats and drinks. None of it is hidden; all of it is set out before you sign.
A 4.80 metre Joker tender with a 100 horsepower outboard does the towing. Behind it: two single canoes, a banana boat, two paddleboards, adult and child water skis, a wakeboard, a mono ski, a kneeboard and two ringos. Snorkelling equipment for the whole party and fishing gear running to two rods, two long lines and six basic lines. A sailing yacht charter Bodrum this size tows properly rather than apologetically.
Inside, satellite television, a DVD and CD player, Bluetooth speakers, board games, a PlayStation for wet afternoons, WiFi throughout and a safe in every cabin. It is the most complete toy inventory in our crewed fleet, and the banana boat is unique to this sailing yacht charter Bodrum.
Timing shapes a week here more than distance does. The meltemi fills in from the north-west through the afternoon and drops away after dark, so the pattern on a sailing yacht charter Bodrum is to move in the morning, anchor by early afternoon and let the breeze do the cooling. Nights in the Gulf of Gökova are flat and quiet even in August, which is why the same guests come back to the same three or four bays year after year.
Bodrum sits at the top of the Turkish Aegean with two gulfs on its doorstep. West and south lies the Gulf of Gökova — Çökertme, English Harbour, Cleopatra Island, Seven Islands — sheltered water with a steady afternoon breeze and almost no development.
South-east, the Datça peninsula runs down to Knidos at its tip, where two ancient harbours face each other across the headland. Beyond that, Bozburun, Selimiye and the Hisarönü gulf. A sailing yacht charter Bodrum can also cross to Kos and the Dodecanese, which the captain will arrange if you want Greek islands in the itinerary.
The tables worth crossing a gulf for have no road to them. Çökertme, Kargılı and Sedir Island in Gökova; the fish restaurants at Selimiye and Bozburun; the single taverna at Knidos with the ruins behind it. All are reached from the water, and most will hold a mooring for you if you eat ashore.
With a cook aboard, though, most guests on a sailing yacht charter Bodrum eat ashore twice a week and let the galley handle the rest. Late summer brings sea bass, gilthead bream, figs and the first pomegranates, and the Bodrum market on a Tuesday is worth the walk.
Aquinox handles the contract, the transit log, provisioning lists and transfers from Bodrum or Dalaman. For the same coast bareboat see our Lagoon 46 in Marmaris; for a crewed motor yacht, the 33 metre in Göcek. She was refit for 2026.
Tell us your dates and party and we will confirm the week, the crew and the terms of your sailing yacht charter Bodrum in a single document.
Rates are quoted per day: €3,750 in low season and €5,950 in high season for 2026, crew of five included. For eight guests that is roughly €470 to €745 a head a day. Fuel, provisioning, harbour dues and drinks are confirmed with the contract.
Eight guests in four cabins — a master with a California King berth, a VIP double and two twins convertible to kings. Every cabin has its own bathroom, television and safe, with 24-hour air conditioning throughout.
Yes. She is rigged as a two-masted schooner and sails genuinely well, which is unusual in this fleet. The crew put canvas up whenever there is breeze enough to justify it. Under power she cruises at 10 knots with 12 available.
The Gulf of Gökova lies west and south — Çökertme, English Harbour, Cleopatra Island. The Datça peninsula runs down to Knidos, and beyond it Bozburun and Selimiye. Kos and the Dodecanese can be arranged.
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