Eighteen guests is the number that makes this boat unusual. Most of the Turkish fleet stops at twelve, and the jump from twelve to eighteen is the difference between splitting a family group across two yachts and keeping everyone on one. A luxury gulet charter Bodrum can rarely offer at this capacity, and at 39.10 metres with eight cabins and seven crew, she does it without feeling crowded.
Capacity on paper is easy; capacity that works is not. It needs beam, and she has 8.50 metres of it — wide for the length, and the reason the cabins below are full-size rather than compressed. It needs bathrooms, and hers are unusual: every one of the eight is built to the same dimensions, so there is no argument about who drew the small one — a detail that matters more on a luxury gulet charter Bodrum booked by several families than any amount of joinery.
It also needs deck. A luxury gulet charter Bodrum for eighteen fails if everyone has to sit in the same place, so the aft deck takes a long dining table for the full complement, the foredeck carries both a bank of sun mattresses and a separate seating area with low tables, and a jacuzzi sits forward between them.
She was built in 2018 by Salmakis Yachting to their own account, in laminated timber, and carries Turkish Lloyd classification and a Turkish flag, so a luxury gulet charter Bodrum aboard her runs under full commercial survey. Two masts, full sailing equipment, twin engines. The interior is a modern reading of the gulet idea rather than a traditional one — half-timber, half-suede, pale rather than the mahogany gloom that dates most of the fleet.
Two masters, four doubles and two triples. The triples take a double bed and a single, which is the configuration that makes a luxury gulet charter Bodrum work for families rather than only for couples: a pair of parents in a double with the children next door, rather than a child on a saloon sofa.
The aft master runs the full beam with sofa seating alongside the bed. The bow master takes the forward section. All eight cabins are en-suite, all have air conditioning, and all share the same bathroom footprint. There is no hierarchy below decks beyond the two masters, which matters when three or four families are dividing a luxury gulet charter Bodrum between them.
The saloon is the other reason she carries eighteen comfortably. It runs wide and long, with an interior dining table, a bar and a lounge, and enough glass that it reads as a deck space rather than a hold. On the two or three evenings a season when the Meltemi makes eating outside unpleasant, that room takes the whole party, which few boats offered for luxury gulet charter Bodrum can claim.
Seven crew for eighteen guests: a captain, a chef, a hostess team and deckhands. Cooking is done aboard from the Bodrum market, and at this group size the galley matters more than it does on a small boat — feeding eighteen three times a day for a week is a professional operation, not an improvisation.
Breakfast is Turkish and open-ended: menemen, white cheeses, olives, honeycomb, tomatoes, and bread from a bakery ashore. Lunch is a long table of mezze eaten at anchor. Dinner changes daily and follows the day: grilled fish, lamb, the vegetables from the morning market, and a table that on a luxury gulet charter Bodrum tends to run past midnight.
Dietary requirements should be given when a luxury gulet charter Bodrum is booked rather than on arrival. Provisioning for eighteen happens ashore before departure, and the anchorages in the Gulf of Gokova have no shops worth the name.
The best kitchens on this coast are not reachable by road. The mountains come straight down to the water and the only way in is a tender from an anchorage, which is the practical argument for a luxury gulet charter Bodrum over a villa with a driver.
Cokertme, on the northern shore of the gulf, has a lamb dish named after the village and a row of jetties. Sedir Island has Cleopatra beach and a kitchen behind it. English Harbour is one restaurant, one beach and a bay so enclosed that ships used to hide in it. Longoz and Seven Islands are quieter again. Booking a table for eighteen needs a day of notice; the crew handle it on the VHF.
Aboard there is a bar, an ice maker and room for a cellar stocked to a brief before a luxury gulet charter Bodrum departs. Turkish wine repays the attention — the Bozcaada whites with fish, Kalecik Karasi from Anatolia with anything from the grill.
Bodrum has an international airport 35 kilometres from the harbour, which for a group of eighteen arriving on different flights is not a small consideration. From the marina a luxury gulet charter Bodrum opens two entirely different weeks in opposite directions.
South and west into the Gulf of Gokova: Cokertme, Sedir, Longoz, English Harbour and Seven Islands, sheltered and green and almost undeveloped. North into the Gulf of Mandalya for Didim and the ruins at Iasos and Miletus, quieter water and the better week for archaeology between swims.
She is licensed for Greek programmes as well as Turkish, which at eighteen guests is worth knowing: Kos lies an hour from Bodrum, with Kalymnos and Leros beyond. Crossings need a transit log and passports lodged in advance. Aquinox also charters from Gocek and Fethiye if a different base suits the group.
The deck jacuzzi sits forward with the water toys stowed around it, and it is the position everyone converges on at six in the evening. A tender handles shore runs and towing, and on a luxury gulet charter Bodrum that run ashore is part of the evening rather than a chore. A jet ski is available as an optional extra at EUR 250 per day rather than included in the rate.
Length overall 39.10 metres, beam 8.50 metres, laminated hull, two masts with full sailing equipment, twin engines. Eighteen guests in eight en-suite cabins, seven crew in separate accommodation, Turkish flag, Turkish Lloyd classification, home port Bodrum. Air conditioning throughout.
Weekly rates run from EUR 38,500 in May and October, EUR 56,500 in June and September, to EUR 74,000 in July and August, quoted for the whole yacht with her crew of seven. Divided across eighteen guests, a luxury gulet charter Bodrum at this size is among the better value on the coast.
The APA system applies: fuel in Turkish territorial waters, food, drinks and all other running expenses are drawn from the advance provisioning allowance rather than added afterwards. The jet ski is EUR 250 per day. Aquinox sets out the expected APA percentage and the full inclusions in writing before any deposit is taken.
July and August at eighteen berths are committed early, because there are very few boats on this coast that can take the group at all. May, June, September and October are easier and, for a boat that sails, better. Send your dates and the group size to Aquinox Yachting for a written quotation, a provisional hold and the full terms the same working day.
Eighteen guests in eight en-suite cabins: two masters, four doubles and two triples with a double and a single bed. Seven crew in separate accommodation.
EUR 38,500 in May and October, EUR 56,500 in June and September, and EUR 74,000 in July and August, for the whole yacht with her crew of seven.
Fuel in Turkish territorial waters, food, drinks and all other running expenses are drawn from the advance provisioning allowance. The jet ski is EUR 250 per day extra.
Yes. She is licensed for Greek programmes. Kos is an hour from Bodrum, with Kalymnos and Leros beyond. Crossings need a transit log and passports lodged in advance.
July and August go early, because few boats on this coast take eighteen at all. May, June, September and October offer better availability and quieter anchorages.
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