Bodrum was built on the site of ancient Halicarnassus — home of one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. Your tender can drop you at the castle in minutes, but the real wonder is what the Aegean looks like at first light from your own deck.

The Gulf of Gökova is a maze of pine-fringed bays where the water shifts from teal to deep blue in a single afternoon. You do not visit it, you anchor in it, swim off the stern and watch the sun drop behind the hills. That is the whole itinerary.

Sailors on this coast will tell you the real secret is the meltemi — the summer wind that arrives almost like clockwork and gives you hours of perfect sailing before it eases at sunset. Plan your hops around it and you look like a genius.

A gulet this size does not heel, does not roll and does not rush. Your morning coffee stays in the cup, your guests stay in a good mood, and the skipper gets to look like the calmest man on the Aegean.

Solar panels are the quietest upgrade on any yacht. They keep the fridge cold, the air conditioning running and the lights on without a generator — which means your evenings in a Turkish bay sound like wind, water and conversation. Nothing else.