A gulet charter Marmaris booking aboard this 28-metre ketch, listed by Aquinox Yachting as PD2804, sleeps sixteen guests in eight en-suite cabins — the largest guest capacity in the Aquinox Turkish fleet. Built in Bozburun in 2004 and refitted in 2012, she is the boat for the group that is genuinely too big for everything else.
Sixteen berths at this length is unusual and it is the whole point of her. Most 28-metre gulets take ten or twelve. She takes a wedding party, three families travelling together, or a company of colleagues, without anyone sleeping in a saloon or paying for a second boat.
She was built the traditional way in Bozburun, the village on the Hisarönü peninsula that has been turning out wooden hulls for as long as anyone has been chartering them. Timber hull, timber superstructure, and the deep varnished cherry interior that a gulet charter Marmaris client expects from a boat of this generation.
Her draft is only 1.7 metres — shallow even for a gulet — which opens the small bays of the Gulf of Hisarönü that deeper boats have to lie off. A Scania main gives her an eight-knot cruise, and the generators run 26 kVA plus a 10 kVA back-up, which matters when sixteen people are running air conditioning at three in the morning in August.
Eight en-suite cabins sleep sixteen: six doubles and two twins, each with its own shower and toilet. Every cabin is panelled in polished cherry with a window, a television, reading lights and independently controlled air conditioning. There is no cabin that is obviously the short straw.
The two twins take proper single berths side by side rather than bunks, which is what makes her work for a mixed group — teenagers, adult siblings, colleagues. On a gulet charter Marmaris week with a party of sixteen, that flexibility in the cabin plan is worth more than any deck feature.
Bathrooms are compact and practical, finished in the same cherry with tiled shower enclosures. Crew of four berth forward. Eight bathrooms for sixteen guests means nobody queues, which on a boat this size is not a given.
The saloon runs the width of the boat with windows down both sides, a long dining table and banquette seating. It is where the group ends up at breakfast on a cool May morning and when the meltemi is blowing hard enough to make the aft deck uncomfortable.
Outside, the aft deck carries the principal table — long enough to seat all sixteen at once, which not every boat of this size manages — under a fixed awning, with a broad cushioned sunbathing platform immediately forward of it.
The foredeck is given over entirely to sun mattresses, running from the mainmast to the bow. Between the two decks a party of sixteen has enough space that people naturally spread out rather than competing for it.
Marmaris is her home port, with Dalaman airport ninety minutes away. The Gulf of Hisarönü runs west — Selimiye, Bozburun, Datça, Palamutbükü — and the Datça peninsula ends at Knidos, where the ruins of the ancient city stand above the anchorage. Her shallow draft is an advantage in all of them.
East lies Ekincik, the Dalyan delta and the Gulf of Fethiye. With Greek transit paperwork arranged in advance, Rhodes and Symi are a morning’s run and the crew handle clearance in both directions. Aquinox Yachting will build the route around the group rather than a standard loop.
Feeding sixteen well for a week is a different job from feeding eight, and her galley is set up for it. The chef works to an agreed menu rather than a fixed rotation, provisioning from the Marmaris market and the villages the boat passes — mezze, grilled fish, slow-cooked lamb, seasonal vegetables.
Dinner alternates between the boat and the shore. A gulet charter Marmaris week reaches the boat-in-only kitchens along the Hisarönü shore — the fish tavernas of Selimiye and Bozburun, the mooring restaurants tucked into Bozukkale and Karaca Bay — and the crew will book a table for sixteen where a walk-in group would be turned away.
Her inventory is deliberately simple: snorkelling gear, fishing tackle, sun mattresses and a service tender for the run ashore. She is a boat for swimming, eating and sitting on deck rather than for engines, and the swim ladder stays rigged all day.
Additional water toys can be hired in for the week on request, and diving is arranged with a Marmaris operator who meets the boat at the anchorage. For a group of sixteen the practical constraint is usually the tender rather than the toys, and the crew run a shuttle rather than a single lift.
Length overall 28.00 m (91’10”). Beam 7.50 m. Draft 1.70 m. Hull and superstructure wood, built in Bozburun in 2004, refitted 2012. Main engine Scania, cruising speed 8 knots. Generators 26 kVA and 10 kVA. Eight cabins — six double, two twin — sixteen guests, crew of four. Flag Türkiye, home port Marmaris. Air conditioning throughout, television in each cabin, private shower and toilet in every cabin.
The TYBA registry and the central agency differ on several figures and all are recorded here: the registry gives her length as 27 metres against the agency’s 28, her beam as 6 metres against 7.5, her build year as 1990 against 2004 with a 2012 refit, and her crew as five against four. The specification above follows the central agency, Mets Yatçılık.
Rates run from €1,700 to €2,500 per day depending on season, plus expenses — which for sixteen guests puts her among the best value per berth anywhere on this coast. The rate covers the yacht, the crew of four, insurance and standard equipment. Fuel, provisioning, harbour dues and gratuities are additional.
She is normally taken by the week, and because there are very few sixteen-berth boats she commits earlier than her size would suggest. July and August go first. Aquinox Yachting works directly with the central agency, Mets Yatçılık, on availability and contract.
Four crew look after sixteen guests — captain, chef and two deckhands. Her master, Captain Ercan Özçelik, has run the Hisarönü bays for years. The service is informal rather than formal, which suits both the boat and the kind of group that charters her.
Availability, sample itineraries and the full inventory are on request. Aquinox Yachting can also propose alternatives at similar length and season — see our 36m VIP gulet at Marmaris, our 39.2m motor yacht at Marmaris, or browse the full Aquinox charter fleet.
Background reading on the type and the port: the gulet and Marmaris on Wikipedia. To hold a week aboard this gulet charter Marmaris vessel, contact Aquinox Yachting on +90 549 507 19 93 or info@aquinoxyachting.com.
Rates run from €1,700 to €2,500 per day depending on season, plus expenses. For sixteen guests that is among the best value per berth on this coast. The rate covers the yacht, the crew of four, insurance and standard equipment.
Sixteen, in eight en-suite cabins — six doubles and two twins, each with its own shower and toilet. It is the largest guest capacity in the Aquinox Turkish fleet and there are very few sixteen-berth boats on the coast.
She is one of the few boats that takes a party of that size on a single hull. The aft deck table seats all sixteen at once, the saloon table does too, and eight bathrooms mean nobody queues.
Snorkelling gear, fishing tackle, sun mattresses and a service tender for the run ashore. Additional water toys can be hired in for the week on request, and diving is arranged with a Marmaris operator who meets the boat at the anchorage.
The Gulf of Hisarönü west of the town — Selimiye, Bozburun, Datça, Palamutbükü — and the Datça peninsula ending at Knidos, with Ekincik, the Dalyan delta and the Gulf of Fethiye to the east. Her 1.7m draft opens bays that deeper boats have to lie off.
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