Hisarönü & Bozburun
Where the gulets are built and the food is best. Quieter than Fethiye, and hardly any open water — the week to take if somebody in the group is nervous about the sea.
The Logbook
NIMARA · CARIAN COASTHow the week runs
Boarding is at 15:30 on the first day, disembarkation after breakfast on the eighth. In between, the captain sets the order of the anchorages each morning from the forecast — the stops stay the same, the sequence moves.
What is included
- The vessel, the full crew, fuel for the standard route and all anchorage fees
- Three meals a day cooked aboard, plus five o'clock tea
- Bed linen, towels, snorkel gear and the tender
- Not included: drinks, meals ashore, port taxes on Greek islands, crew gratuity
What you eat
Turkish breakfast every morning — white cheese, olives, tomato, honeycomb, eggs to order. Meze at anchor for lunch: stuffed vine leaves, olive-oil artichokes, grilled octopus, whatever the market had. Dinner aboard most nights, ashore two. Tell us about allergies, vegetarians and halal at booking, not on the day.
Hisarönü Gulf
Twenty-two miles of protected water between the Datça and Bozburun peninsulas, with the open Aegean shut out by land on three sides. The meltemi arrives here already broken by the hills, which is why this is the week we give to families and to anyone who has told us somebody in the group is nervous about the sea.
What there is to do here
Walk the Kızkumu sandbar
Half a mile of knee-deep water running out into the middle of Orhaniye bay. Go at eight in the morning, before the day boats.
Eat octopus at Selimiye
Six tavernas along the quay, all of them family-run, and a fishing fleet that still lands what they cook.
See a gulet being built
The yards at Bozburun are working yards, not a museum. Walk in and somebody will show you the frames.
Anchor alone at Bencik
A long inlet that nearly cuts the peninsula in two. No road, no village, no phone signal at the head. Line ashore to a pine.
Swim under the Loryma fortress
Hellenistic walls standing over the entrance at Bozukkale, unfenced and unlit, exactly as they have been for 2,300 years.
The week, day by day
Saturday to Saturday: aboard from 15:30 on the first day, one bay that evening, then two bays most days and the last night on the Friday. Ashore after breakfast on the second Saturday. Want five nights, or ten? Say so and we redraw it.
Aboard from 15:30, papers and a safety briefing, then one short hop to the first anchorage for dinner and the first swim.
A morning swim where you woke up, a two-hour passage at most, lunch at anchor in the second bay and the night wherever the wind is kindest.
A morning swim where you woke up, a two-hour passage at most, lunch at anchor in the second bay and the night wherever the wind is kindest.
A morning swim where you woke up, a two-hour passage at most, lunch at anchor in the second bay and the night wherever the wind is kindest.
Breakfast alongside, then ashore by 09:30. Most guests take the late flight and leave their bags with us for the day.
Shortest hop on the route is twenty minutes and the longest is under two hours, so nobody spends a day sitting down. Provisioning is easiest at Marmaris on the Saturday; after that it is village shops.
What guests say about this route
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Ready to pick your week?
Tell us the dates and the number of guests. We reply with availability, a full price breakdown and a 72-hour hold on the boat.