A gulet charter Fethiye booking aboard this 46-metre three-masted schooner, listed by Aquinox Yachting as GA4606, sleeps thirty-six guests in eighteen cabins with a crew of eight. She is the largest-capacity vessel in the Aquinox fleet by a wide margin, and she exists for a job almost nothing else on this coast can do.
Thirty-six berths on one hull changes what a charter can be. A wedding party, a company off-site, four families travelling together — groups that would otherwise need two or three boats and lose half the point of the week coordinating between them. Everyone eats at the same table and swims off the same platform.
She was built in 2006 by Tahir Nezihi Özdemir at the Ayna yard in Fethiye — a timber hull and deck on a 9.1-metre beam, refitted in 2018. Three masts rather than the usual two, and she carries real canvas on all of them: under full sail she is one of the more striking vessels working the Turkish coast.
Twin 450-horsepower Ivecos push her at eight to nine knots with two 42 kVA generators behind them. The number that actually matters at this capacity is tankage: 6,000 litres of fuel and 32,000 litres of fresh water, which is what lets thirty-six people stay out for seven days without a marina stop.
Eighteen double cabins sleep thirty-six, each with its own bathroom, air conditioning and timber panelling. The layout runs along two long guest corridors rather than the single companionway of a smaller boat, which is what keeps eighteen doors from feeling like a corridor of hotel rooms.
The corridors are the detail people photograph — panelled floor to deckhead in varnished timber with recessed blue LEDs running the length of them. Eighteen bathrooms for eighteen cabins means nobody is sharing, which at thirty-six guests is not something every large vessel manages.
The main saloon runs the width of the ship between varnished columns, with a dining table long enough to seat a substantial part of the complement and windows down both sides. It is a room built for a crowd rather than a family, and it works.
She carries a proper bar — a full varnished timber counter with stools, spirits racked behind and its own refrigeration. On a boat this size that is not a decorative detail: thirty-six people need somewhere to gather that is not the dining table, and the bar is it.
Outside there is more deck than most guests know what to do with. The aft deck carries a long dining table under a fixed awning, the side decks are laid in wide varnished timber, and the upper deck runs to loungers and sun mattresses from the mainmast aft.
The foredeck is the set piece. A circular jacuzzi sits flush in the deck with banquette seating wrapped around it and LED lighting under the rim, and the whole area is given over to lounging rather than ground tackle. At dusk with the lights on it is the reason groups book her twice.
Her inventory is deliberately simple for the numbers she carries: six paddleboards, snorkelling gear, fishing tackle, a deck shower and a tender with a 60-horsepower outboard. Six boards rather than one or two is the right call — with thirty-six aboard, quantity matters more than novelty.
The swimming platform runs the full width of the transom and the crew keep it rigged all day. Additional toys can be hired in for the week on request, and diving is arranged with a Fethiye operator who meets the vessel at the anchorage rather than being carried aboard.
Fethiye is her home port, twenty minutes from Dalaman airport — the shortest transfer of any base on this coast, which matters when you are moving thirty-six people. The Gulf of Fethiye and the Twelve Islands open directly off the marina, and Göcek is an hour away.
Eastward lie Ölüdeniz, Butterfly Valley, Kalkan and Kekova’s sunken city; westward, Ekincik, the Dalyan delta and Marmaris. A gulet charter Fethiye itinerary at this size needs anchorages with room to swing, and Aquinox Yachting builds the route around that rather than around a standard loop.
Feeding thirty-six for a week is a catering operation, not a galley job, and she is provisioned for it — an ice machine, a coffee maker, serious refrigeration and a crew used to serving at this scale. Breakfast and lunch are buffets on deck; dinner is served.
Menus are agreed before boarding and dietary requirements taken by name rather than by count. For a group event the crew will work to a schedule — a set dinner on one night, a barbecue on another, a late buffet after a shore excursion — which is the part of a gulet charter Fethiye week that separates her from a boat improvising for eight.
Length overall 46.00 m (151′). Beam 9.10 m. Hull and deck timber, three masts. Built 2006 by Tahir Nezihi Özdemir at Ayna Tersanesi, Fethiye; refitted 2018. Engines 2 × 450 hp Iveco, cruising speed 8 to 9 knots. Generators 2 × 42 kVA Iveco. Fuel 6,000 litres, fresh water 32,000 litres. Eighteen double cabins, thirty-six guests, crew of eight. Flag Türkiye, home port Fethiye. Air conditioning throughout, bar, foredeck jacuzzi, satellite television, music system, ice machine, radar, GPS and autopilot.
One source differs materially and is recorded here: a retail broker publishes her as 45 metres, built 2013 and refitted 2017, with a 10-knot cruise. The central agency, Ece Yachting, and the TYBA registry both give 46 metres and a 2006 build, and the specification above follows them. Aquinox Yachting will confirm any figure in writing before contract.
Rates run €34,000 per week in April, €38,000 in May and October, €42,000 in June and September and €46,000 in July and August, plus expenses. The rate covers the yacht, the crew of eight, insurance and standard equipment. Fuel, provisioning, harbour dues and gratuities are additional.
Divided across thirty-six berths that is roughly €1,000 to €1,300 per person for the week, which is why she is booked by groups who have priced two smaller boats and found this cheaper as well as better. She goes early — event charters commit a year ahead. Aquinox Yachting works directly with the central agency, Ece Yachting, on availability and contract.
Eight crew look after thirty-six guests — captain, chef, engineer, deckhands and stewardesses. Her master, Captain Önder Targıt, has run this coast for years and is used to moving a vessel of this size and complement between anchorages without the day feeling like a schedule.
Availability, sample itineraries and the full inventory are on request, and Aquinox Yachting can quote her for events as well as private weeks. For smaller groups see our 28m gulet for sixteen at Marmaris or our 38m VIP gulet at Bodrum, or browse the full Aquinox charter fleet.
Background reading on the type and the port: the gulet and Fethiye on Wikipedia. To hold a week aboard this gulet charter Fethiye vessel, contact Aquinox Yachting on +90 549 507 19 93 or info@aquinoxyachting.com.
€34,000 per week in April, €38,000 in May and October, €42,000 in June and September and €46,000 in July and August, plus expenses. Across thirty-six berths that is roughly €1,000 to €1,300 per person for the week.
Thirty-six, in eighteen double cabins, each with its own bathroom and air conditioning. She is the largest-capacity vessel in the Aquinox fleet and one of very few on the Turkish coast that takes a group of this size on a single hull.
That is what she is for. Eighteen cabins, a saloon and a full bar built for a crowd, a foredeck jacuzzi and a crew used to serving at this scale. Menus and a schedule are agreed before boarding rather than improvised.
Six paddleboards, snorkelling gear, fishing tackle, a deck shower and a tender with a 60hp outboard, plus a foredeck jacuzzi. Additional toys can be hired in for the week and diving is arranged with a Fethiye operator at the anchorage.
The Gulf of Fethiye and the Twelve Islands open straight off the marina, with Göcek an hour away. Ölüdeniz, Butterfly Valley, Kalkan and Kekova lie east; Ekincik, the Dalyan delta and Marmaris west. Dalaman airport is twenty minutes from the berth.
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