Babylon
Babylon is a 41-metre gulet built in 2015 and refitted in 2022 — unusually large for ten guests, which is the point. Five en-suite cabins: a king master, a queen VIP and three doubles, each with a smart TV and its own sound system. The interior is warm honey-toned wood with indirect lighting; the saloon has a bar and a proper dining table, and the aft deck seats everyone for dinner.
She is a real sailing gulet — three masts, sails that get used — with wide side decks and a foredeck laid out in sunpads. Twin Scania 440s for when the wind drops. Based in Bodrum with a crew of six (captain, chef, stewardess, housekeeper, two deckhands); kayaks, waterskis, wakeboard and ringos aboard.
Cabins
Sample itineraries
Round the Gulf of Gökova
You'll leave Bodrum for Çökertme, where the waterside restaurants lay moorings for boats whose guests come ashore to eat. Across the gulf you'll anchor in English Harbour or the narrow inlet at Löngöz, both closed to commercial fishing. At Sedir Island the day boats leave by early evening, and legend says Mark Antony had the sand on its beach shipped from Egypt for Cleopatra.
Knidos and the Hisarönü Gulf
You'll cross to Knidos and anchor in the southern harbour, below the terraces of the ancient city. East along the peninsula, Bencik is a long inlet that almost cuts the land in two, near where Herodotus says the people of Knidos tried to dig a canal to keep out the Persians. Further in, at Orhaniye, the Kızkumu sandbar runs out into the bay just under the surface.
