28m Wooden Gulet Charter Bodrum | 1998 | JA2806

Most boats in this class motor everywhere and raise canvas for the photographs. JA2806 is the exception, and it is the reason to look at a wooden gulet charter Bodrum rather than a modern steel hull. She is a 28m two-masted gulet launched in 1998 and rebuilt in 2020, with a full working rig, varnished mahogany topsides over a white hull, and 6 cabins for 12 guests run by a crew of 4.

The rebuild is what makes her current. The rig, the deck gear, the systems and the entire interior were taken back and redone in 2020, so she has the proportions of a 1990s gulet with none of the age. Power below is a 440 hp MAN with 2 x 22 kW Onan generators, feeding air conditioning throughout, a water maker and an ice machine. A wooden gulet charter Bodrum week aboard this boat means actually sailing for part of it.

28 metres under a working rig

She measures 28m on deck with a 6.5m beam — narrower than the modern 8m gulets, which is exactly why she sails. The two masts carry a genoa, a staysail, a main and a mizzen, all cut with blue-trimmed leeches, and the crew work them properly rather than as decoration. The teak decks run uninterrupted from the bowsprit to the stern, with sun pads forward, a long dining table aft under the boom and a deckhouse between them. Few boats make the case for a wooden gulet charter Bodrum as directly as this one.

The wooden gulet charter Bodrum cruising ground

Bodrum sits on a peninsula with water on both sides, which doubles the options. North and west lie Türkbükü, Gündoğan, Yalıkavak and the run out to the islands off Didim. South and east opens the Gulf of Gökova — Çökertme, English Harbour, Cleopatra’s Island and the deep pine inlets past Sedir. The Greek islands of Kos and Kalymnos sit within an easy day when the paperwork allows. A wooden gulet charter Bodrum can take any of those directions and fill a week.

Aquinox arranges boat-in dining right along the peninsula — the waterfront kitchens of Gümüşlük built over the sunken city, the fish houses at Çökertme, the quiet jetties on the Gökova shore that keep a table for guests arriving by tender. A wooden gulet charter Bodrum week turns the coast into a string of them.

Saloon, galley and living space

There are 2 interior rooms rather than one. The deckhouse forward carries the ship’s wheel, the instrument panel and a settee with a table — the room where people end up at dusk. Below and aft is the dinette: a corner settee, a varnished table, sea-view windows down both sides. The galley turns out 3 meals a day around Aegean produce, served at the long table on the aft deck, and the wine gets poured before the sun goes.

6 cabins for 12 guests

One master, 3 doubles and 2 twins, all en-suite and all air conditioned. The 2020 rebuild shows most clearly here: mahogany panelling with white-painted deckheads, tufted headboard panels, framed sailing photography, brass fittings in the heads and concealed lighting along the soles. It is a warmer, more traditional finish than the LED-lit interiors on newer gulets, and it is the right one for a wooden gulet charter Bodrum.

On deck and in the water

The foredeck carries a full run of sun pads either side of the mainmast, with the bowsprit and its netting forward of that. Kayaks, water skis, towables and fishing gear ship as standard, with a jet ski, wakeboard, SUP and windsurf kit available as optional extras. A deck shower, a swim ladder and a tender on davits finish the stern — everything a wooden gulet charter Bodrum needs to spend the week at anchor rather than alongside.

Specifications

• Length: 28m
• Beam: 6.5m
• Type: two-masted sailing gulet, crewed
• Built: 1998, rebuilt 2020
• Cabins: 6 (1 master, 3 double, 2 twin), all en-suite
• Guests: 12
• Crew: 4
• Engine: 440 hp MAN
• Generators: 2 x 22 kW Onan
• Air conditioning: cabins and saloon
• Water: water maker, deck shower
• Comforts: ice machine, satellite TV, internet

Charter this gulet from Bodrum

JA2806 charters from EUR 17,500 per week (EUR 2,500 per day) out of Bodrum, crew included — the going rate for a 6-cabin boat, on a hull that actually sails, which is the whole argument for this wooden gulet charter Bodrum. For a wider, newer boat further east, see the 31m gulet at Marmaris, or browse the full Aquinox fleet. For the town and its two coasts, Go Türkiye’s Bodrum guide is a useful start.

Aquinox Yachting manages every wooden gulet charter Bodrum end to end — provisioning, itinerary, transfers, berths and the crew briefing that has the sails up on the first afternoon.