Included in your tour is a free USD 1,000.- value "Basic Sailing and Seamanship" education. While you can get full advantage of the curriculum below, you can also choose to not follow this education and rather chill on deck to enjoy the Aegean. The crew will be available anytime.

Day 4 - Bozcaada - Assos
Parts of a sailboat
Special terms and specialized equipment (bow, ropes, shackles, fenders, etc.)
Anatomy of a boat (mainsails, jib, boom, keel)
Types of boats according to building material (GRP, wooden, aluminum)
Types of boats according to sails (Sloop, Ketch, Cutter)
Our Gulet

Day 5 - Assos - Ayvalik
Introduction to sailing
Important knots (to make a bowline, clove hitch, hangman's knot)
Handle and coil a rope (Heaving a line, cleating rope)
Wind, apparent and true wind (Bernoulli's Principle)
How sails work, how does a boat sail
Angle to the wind (no-go area, close-hauled, close reach, beam reach, broad reach, running)

Day 6 - Ayvalik - Cesme
Setting the sails
Proper rigging and setting up of the mainsail and jib
Close-Hauled sailing; Tacking, leeway, tell-tales
Fastest point of sailing, Reaching
Downwind sailing, Gybing, Cruising chutes

Day 7 - Cesme - Kusadasi
Mooring and Docking
Moorings and Docks
How to anchor, choice of anchor
Arrivals and Departures
Fenders, Buoys

Day 8 - Kusadasi
Navigation
How to use a compass and deviations
Positioning, bearing fix, lighthouses
Using a chart, chart symbols, plotting instruments and tools
GPS and Electronic Charts

Day 9 - Kusadasi - Bodrum
Weather Forecast
Visual Clues (clouds, jet contrails etc)
Wave types
Meltemi and downdrafts
Reading a forecast

Miscellaneaous related topics to be covered thru the days:
Secrets of Seafarers
Safety on board
Basics of Snorkeling
Survival on Board
Fishing (Make a fishing line, find your bait)
Aegean Cooking, natural sauces

This is an extemporaneous way of traveling; itinerary and curriculum are subject to change