https://oxygenyachting.com/bulten/index-en.html Oxygen Yachting newsletter — latest articles en https://oxygenyachting.com/bulten/2026-07-22/baligin-mevsimi-en.htmlhttps://oxygenyachting.com/bulten/2026-07-22/baligin-mevsimi-en.htmlWed, 22 Jul 2026 09:00:00 GMTAsking for fish in summer puts the man behind the slab in a slightly difficult position. His answer isn’t rude, only honest: “This month, so-so.” The sea keeps its own calendar. https://oxygenyachting.com/bulten/2026-07-22/dunya-pazarinda-charter-en.htmlhttps://oxygenyachting.com/bulten/2026-07-22/dunya-pazarinda-charter-en.htmlWed, 22 Jul 2026 09:00:00 GMTThe numbers are estimates and they move with the source. But three trends point the same way across different reports — and all three mean something for anyone with a boat in the Aegean. https://oxygenyachting.com/bulten/2026-07-22/gece-vardiyasi-en.htmlhttps://oxygenyachting.com/bulten/2026-07-22/gece-vardiyasi-en.htmlWed, 22 Jul 2026 09:00:00 GMTWhile the guests sleep, someone on deck is awake. The work is not watching but listening — and most of what is heard is never seen. https://oxygenyachting.com/bulten/2026-07-22/gumusluk-tas-ocagi-en.htmlhttps://oxygenyachting.com/bulten/2026-07-22/gumusluk-tas-ocagi-en.htmlWed, 22 Jul 2026 09:00:00 GMTBodrum’s stone once came out of here. Now a piano is played among the cut faces — and nobody designed the acoustics. https://oxygenyachting.com/bulten/2026-07-22/keramos-korfezi-en.htmlhttps://oxygenyachting.com/bulten/2026-07-22/keramos-korfezi-en.htmlWed, 22 Jul 2026 09:00:00 GMTAlmost every boat entering Gökova turns south. On the far shore, under the pines, lie the stones of a city that once gave the whole gulf its name — a name that may come not from a legend but from a word. https://oxygenyachting.com/bulten/2026-07-22/sezon-ortasi-rezervasyon-en.htmlhttps://oxygenyachting.com/bulten/2026-07-22/sezon-ortasi-rezervasyon-en.htmlWed, 22 Jul 2026 09:00:00 GMTIn the Aegean the good boats go in January. The answer to a call in late July isn’t “no” — but it isn’t “yes” either. It sits somewhere in between. https://oxygenyachting.com/bulten/2026-07-22/teknede-su-en.htmlhttps://oxygenyachting.com/bulten/2026-07-22/teknede-su-en.htmlWed, 22 Jul 2026 09:00:00 GMTBefore departure a hose hangs over the side of a boat at the quay. How comfortable the next seven days are depends partly on how long that hose runs. https://oxygenyachting.com/bulten/2026-07-15/bodrum-kalesi-denizden-en.htmlhttps://oxygenyachting.com/bulten/2026-07-15/bodrum-kalesi-denizden-en.htmlWed, 15 Jul 2026 09:00:00 GMTEvery boat that enters Bodrum harbour passes, without quite knowing it, beneath a wall built by four different nations. The castle's stones have gone from San Pietro to Petronium, from chapel to mosque, from prison to museum — standing in the same place, with the same patience, for five hundred years. https://oxygenyachting.com/bulten/2026-07-15/bozburuna-giden-yol-en.htmlhttps://oxygenyachting.com/bulten/2026-07-15/bozburuna-giden-yol-en.htmlWed, 15 Jul 2026 09:00:00 GMTThe ancient world called it "Trakheia" — rocky. No fertile soil, no wide beaches, no grand promises. But in the Bozburun Peninsula, a boat grows in nearly every garden, and every village carries an old name. Less known than Gökova or Datça, but every bit as genuine. https://oxygenyachting.com/bulten/2026-07-15/deniz-tutmasi-en.htmlhttps://oxygenyachting.com/bulten/2026-07-15/deniz-tutmasi-en.htmlWed, 15 Jul 2026 09:00:00 GMTA guest goes below to read and turns green within ten minutes. Captains always know why, but rarely say. Seasickness isn't a sign of inexperience, and it isn't fate — it's simply a body that hasn't yet learned the sea. https://oxygenyachting.com/bulten/2026-07-15/firtinadan-once-en.htmlhttps://oxygenyachting.com/bulten/2026-07-15/firtinadan-once-en.htmlWed, 15 Jul 2026 09:00:00 GMTEven while the sea still looks flat, a storm has usually been saying something for hours already. For a captain who knows how to read the sky, the water and the birds, even silence is a warning. https://oxygenyachting.com/bulten/2026-07-15/gorunmeyen-orman-en.htmlhttps://oxygenyachting.com/bulten/2026-07-15/gorunmeyen-orman-en.htmlWed, 15 Jul 2026 09:00:00 GMTUnder the water, in a place few people look closely, a green meadow stretches out — in some spots, it has for thousands of years. Local fishermen call it erişte, noodle-grass. Science calls it Posidonia oceanica. And in precisely the waters where Oxygen drops anchor, this meadow now sits among the most pressured stretches in the Mediterranean. https://oxygenyachting.com/bulten/2026-07-15/gulet-ustalari-en.htmlhttps://oxygenyachting.com/bulten/2026-07-15/gulet-ustalari-en.htmlWed, 15 Jul 2026 09:00:00 GMTThe gulet you're sleeping aboard tonight is likely part of a lineage. Bodrum's first gulet was born in 1958 as a fishing boat; the master who built it trained apprentices who trained apprentices of their own. The craft still passes from hand to hand, in the same coves. https://oxygenyachting.com/bulten/2026-07-15/sahip-olmak-mi-kiralamak-mi-en.htmlhttps://oxygenyachting.com/bulten/2026-07-15/sahip-olmak-mi-kiralamak-mi-en.htmlWed, 15 Jul 2026 09:00:00 GMTEvery loyal guest asks it, some evening on deck: "What if this boat were mine?" The answer isn't as simple as it sounds — but it isn't as complicated either. Both paths carry their own logic, their own cost, their own reward. https://oxygenyachting.com/bulten/2026-07-15/zeytin-ve-yag-en.htmlhttps://oxygenyachting.com/bulten/2026-07-15/zeytin-ve-yag-en.htmlWed, 15 Jul 2026 09:00:00 GMTJust inland from Bodrum, olive groves grow without ever being watered — some of the trees said to be 3,200 years old. The oil they produce leaves a faint burn at the back of the throat. That's not a flaw. The European Union has registered the name to prove it. https://oxygenyachting.com/bulten/2026-07-08/bodrumdan-yunan-adalarina-en.htmlhttps://oxygenyachting.com/bulten/2026-07-08/bodrumdan-yunan-adalarina-en.htmlWed, 08 Jul 2026 09:00:00 GMTSail a few hours west of Bodrum and another flag rises to meet you. As the castle shrinks astern, Kos grows off the bow; the same water, the same light, but by noon your coffee arrives in another language. The opposite shore isn't really a shore at all — it's a handful of islands, and most are closer than you think. https://oxygenyachting.com/bulten/2026-07-08/deniz-fenerleri-en.htmlhttps://oxygenyachting.com/bulten/2026-07-08/deniz-fenerleri-en.htmlWed, 08 Jul 2026 09:00:00 GMTAt the far tip of Datça, on the headland where the Aegean parts from the Mediterranean, a light repeats the same phrase every night: I am here, the way is clear. The story of the Deveboynu lighthouse begins with a father-and-son watch — and reaches, improbably, all the way to the word "lighthouse" itself. https://oxygenyachting.com/bulten/2026-07-08/denizci-argosu-en.htmlhttps://oxygenyachting.com/bulten/2026-07-08/denizci-argosu-en.htmlWed, 08 Jul 2026 09:00:00 GMTSomeone on deck calls out "coming alongside to starboard — stand by!" and everyone knows what to do; everyone but you. The sea has a language of its own, and most of its words aren't even native. But the day you begin to speak it, you belong to the sea a little more. https://oxygenyachting.com/bulten/2026-07-08/sessiz-luks-uzak-rotalar-en.htmlhttps://oxygenyachting.com/bulten/2026-07-08/sessiz-luks-uzak-rotalar-en.htmlWed, 08 Jul 2026 09:00:00 GMTThe most talked-about thing in yachting in 2026 isn't bigger boats or brighter marinas. It's silence. Privacy. Getting away from the crowd. The luxury the world is newly discovering is precisely the thing Oxygen has been describing for years. https://oxygenyachting.com/bulten/2026-07-08/tekneyle-gidilen-restoranlar-en.htmlhttps://oxygenyachting.com/bulten/2026-07-08/tekneyle-gidilen-restoranlar-en.htmlWed, 08 Jul 2026 09:00:00 GMTTo some of the best tables in the Aegean there is no asphalt; and even where there is, the truer arrival is by sea. From Göbün to Kapi Creek, from Adaia to Serçe Limanı — the difference is often not on the plate, but in how you reached the table. https://oxygenyachting.com/bulten/2026-07-08/turk-tersaneleri-rekor-yili-en.htmlhttps://oxygenyachting.com/bulten/2026-07-08/turk-tersaneleri-rekor-yili-en.htmlWed, 08 Jul 2026 09:00:00 GMTThese shores once launched wooden sponge boats. Today the same country is named among the world's largest superyacht builders. Turkey's shipyards closed 2025 with a record year for exports and entered 2026 accelerating. https://oxygenyachting.com/bulten/2026-07-08/uluburun-batigi-en.htmlhttps://oxygenyachting.com/bulten/2026-07-08/uluburun-batigi-en.htmlWed, 08 Jul 2026 09:00:00 GMTOff Kaş, a sponge diver said he'd seen "metal biscuits with ears" on the seabed. Those biscuits were the cargo of a ship that sank three thousand three hundred years ago carrying an entire age. Anchor off that same cape today, and one of the fullest cargo manifests in the world lies beneath you. https://oxygenyachting.com/bulten/2026-07-08/yunuslar-en.htmlhttps://oxygenyachting.com/bulten/2026-07-08/yunuslar-en.htmlWed, 08 Jul 2026 09:00:00 GMTNo one called them. The boat picks up speed, a wave forms at the bow, and suddenly they're there; riding it just ahead of the hull, sliding along. They stay a while, then leave the way they came. The most loved moment at sea is usually the one you can't order up. https://oxygenyachting.com/bulten/2026-07-08/bodrum-kalesi-denizden-en.htmlhttps://oxygenyachting.com/bulten/2026-07-08/bodrum-kalesi-denizden-en.htmlWed, 08 Jul 2026 09:00:00 GMTEvery boat that enters Bodrum harbour passes, without quite knowing it, beneath a wall built by four different nations. The castle's stones have gone from San Pietro to Petronium, from chapel to mosque, from prison to museum — standing in the same place, with the same patience, for five hundred years. https://oxygenyachting.com/bulten/2026-07-08/bozburuna-giden-yol-en.htmlhttps://oxygenyachting.com/bulten/2026-07-08/bozburuna-giden-yol-en.htmlWed, 08 Jul 2026 09:00:00 GMTThe ancient world called it "Trakheia" — rocky. No fertile soil, no wide beaches, no grand promises. But in the Bozburun Peninsula, a boat grows in nearly every garden, and every village carries an old name. Less known than Gökova or Datça, but every bit as genuine. https://oxygenyachting.com/bulten/2026-07-08/deniz-tutmasi-en.htmlhttps://oxygenyachting.com/bulten/2026-07-08/deniz-tutmasi-en.htmlWed, 08 Jul 2026 09:00:00 GMTA guest goes below to read and turns green within ten minutes. Captains always know why, but rarely say. Seasickness isn't a sign of inexperience, and it isn't fate — it's simply a body that hasn't yet learned the sea. https://oxygenyachting.com/bulten/2026-07-08/firtinadan-once-en.htmlhttps://oxygenyachting.com/bulten/2026-07-08/firtinadan-once-en.htmlWed, 08 Jul 2026 09:00:00 GMTEven while the sea still looks flat, a storm has usually been saying something for hours already. For a captain who knows how to read the sky, the water and the birds, even silence is a warning. https://oxygenyachting.com/bulten/2026-07-08/gorunmeyen-orman-en.htmlhttps://oxygenyachting.com/bulten/2026-07-08/gorunmeyen-orman-en.htmlWed, 08 Jul 2026 09:00:00 GMTUnder the water, in a place few people look closely, a green meadow stretches out — in some spots, it has for thousands of years. Local fishermen call it erişte, noodle-grass. Science calls it Posidonia oceanica. And in precisely the waters where Oxygen drops anchor, this meadow now sits among the most pressured stretches in the Mediterranean. https://oxygenyachting.com/bulten/2026-07-08/gulet-ustalari-en.htmlhttps://oxygenyachting.com/bulten/2026-07-08/gulet-ustalari-en.htmlWed, 08 Jul 2026 09:00:00 GMTThe gulet you're sleeping aboard tonight is likely part of a lineage. Bodrum's first gulet was born in 1958 as a fishing boat; the master who built it trained apprentices who trained apprentices of their own. The craft still passes from hand to hand, in the same coves. https://oxygenyachting.com/bulten/2026-07-08/sahip-olmak-mi-kiralamak-mi-en.htmlhttps://oxygenyachting.com/bulten/2026-07-08/sahip-olmak-mi-kiralamak-mi-en.htmlWed, 08 Jul 2026 09:00:00 GMTEvery loyal guest asks it, some evening on deck: "What if this boat were mine?" The answer isn't as simple as it sounds — but it isn't as complicated either. Both paths carry their own logic, their own cost, their own reward.