Diva Deniz
Diva Deniz is a gulet of 29 metres, launched in 2008 and much renewed in a refit completed in 2021. She takes twelve guests in six cabins, with a crew of five aboard, and keeps her berth at Marmaris on Turkey's south-west coast. The refit brought her interiors and systems up to date, while the timber hull remains what it always was: broad and steady, with the beam for a long table on deck.
Cabins
Sample itineraries
Round the Bozburun peninsula
You'll head south to Serçe Limanı, a sheltered natural harbour where an eleventh-century ship sank with a cargo of glass, now shown in the Bodrum museum. At Bozukkale you can walk up from the anchorage to the Rhodian fortress walls of ancient Loryma. Then north into the Hisarönü Gulf to Bozburun, where families have built wooden boats beside their houses for decades, and on to Selimiye.
East to Dalyan and Göcek
You'll head east to Ekincik, where a local boat can take you up the reed-lined Dalyan channel to Kaunos and its temple-fronted rock tombs. From there it is a morning's run to the Göcek islands and Tersane, an island with the ruins of an abandoned village. In Bedri Rahmi bay, named after one of Turkey's best-known painters, you'll see the fish he painted on a rock there in 1974.
