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TIRHANDIL
WORKHORSE OF THE AEGEAN SEA
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OUR LATEST 20m TIRHANDIL CRUISING NEAR BODRUM
TIRHANDIL
NEWS!!!!
IT IS A GREAT TIME TO ORDER A NEW
TIRHANDIL!!! OR REPAIR YOUR EXISTING ONE!!!
THE ECONOMIC CRISES HAS HIT ICMELER BADLY! NOW YOU HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY
TO ORDER A NEW GULET OR TIRHANDIL AT FRACTION OF THE COST OF JUST A
FEW YEARS A GO! THE BUILDERS ARE WILLING TO BUILD AT COST. IF YOU ARE
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YES!! YOU CAN BUILD A 20 METER LUXURY TIRHANDIL FOR 295,000 € !!!
ILKAY
MISTIK
RECENTLY
RECEIVED SUCH AN ORDER SEPTEMBER 20110 AND IT IS FINISJED NOW!
IT
ONLY TOOK 12 MONTHS TO FINISH THE PROJECT!
THE 20M TIRHANDIL IS ON THE WAY AND IT IS NY FAR THE BEST LUXURY
TIRHANDIL EVER BUILT IN THE WORLD! SOME OF THE IMPROVEMENTS COMPARED TO
OTHER TIRHANDILS THAT WERE PREVIOUSLY BUILT:
- EXTRA LARGE GALLEY
WITH ALL THE LUXURIES OF A HOME KITCHEN INCLUDING DISHWASHER, DEEP
FREEZER, PANTRY, MICROWAVE, FULLS SIZE LAUNDRY WASHER.
- LARGER BOW THRUSTER
AT A LOWER POINT ON THE BOW RESULTING IN LESS CAVITATION AND BETTER
TRUST.
- LARGER MASTER CABIN
- PILOT CABIN WITH
SEPARATE GALLEY IN THE AFT SECTION. RESULTING IN A LARGE CENTER COCPIT
AND SALOON. WITH OPENING WINDOWS ALL AROUND ALONG WITH A LARGE SUN ROOF.
- DOUBLE STEERING
STATIONS, ONE AFT FOR SAILING IN GOOD WEATHER AND MOORING EASE, THE
OTHER INSIDE FOR THOSE RAINY DAYS.
- IMPROVED A/C SYSTEM
WITH MODULAR UNITS IN ALL CABINS
- LARGEST ENGINE
MAN430hp INSTALLED IN A TIRHANDIL BUILT IN TURKEY SO FAR, RESULTING IN
12KNT CRUISE.
- ALUMINUM MAST AND
BOOM.
- IMPROVED CREW CABIN
WITH PRIVATE HEAD.
ALL OF THIS FOR
AROUND 355000€ READY TO SAIL INCLUDING 17kw GEN SET
ALL WITH CE CERTIFICATION
CAN ANY ONE ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD BEAT THIS PRICE? EVEN COME CLOSE TO
BUILDING A PERFECT TIRHANDIL FORM?? WE DOUBT IT VERY MUCH!!
SO WE CAN EASILY SAY WITH CONFIDENCE THAT WE HERE IN IÇMELER DO
BUILD THE BEST TIRHANDILS IN THE WORLD!! GUARANTEED!! OR YOUR MONEY
BACK!!
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SEE THE PICTURES OF THIS BEAUTY!
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IT
TAKES BLOOD, SWEAT AND TEARS AND ABOUT 9 MONTHS TO COMPLETE A 20M
TIRHANDIL
HERE IS LEGENDARY SEBO
AND MEHMETALI
PUTTING THE 20M HULL TOGETHER
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The infamous Tirhandil has
been the vessel of choice of the Greeks, Turks and other indigenous
people who lived in the Aegean waters for centuries. In recent
years, it has
given up it's glory to other types like the Gulet, Ketch and Trawler
styles, however, with nostalgia for tradition, the rounded sexy lines
of this elusive boat is once again, making it a popular vessel to own
and to charter. This site is dedicated to Tirhandils, and to
people who appreciate the beauty of such sturdy floating works of art.
Here, you will see sections for: Tirhandil builders,Tirhandils for sale and
chartering a Tirhandil for "Blue Voyage" cruising in the Aegean.
Tirhandils are great under sail as you
can see in the above shot. This one is a 19 meter constructed in Bodrum
A
tirhandil is the centuries-old workhorse
of the Mediterranean and is similar to its cousin, the caique,
and the
Greek transport vessel called perama. The Greek equivalent of
tirhandil
is trechenderi.
The Lingua Franca in the Levant defines tirhandil as a:
1.
'sternpost', 2. a 'small, light
boat' and 3. 'as
a fishing boat of a certain type: a large boat, both beaklike ends of
which are similar, with two masts, lateen sails, spritsail and
foresail, which can be driven by oars in case of emergency and which is
used with dragnets by the Greek and Italian fisherman'.
The translated definition of tirhandil from Kaptan
Kilavuzu
is as
follows:
A
sailing
vessel with origins from the Marmaris area
having two masts, a bow spirit and lateen sails. The vessel is
beak-nosed with a scoop stern and ample interior capacity.
 Because
few references for tirhandil
or were
found,
I
also
looked
up caique. Miriam-Webster gives the entymology
of caique as being originally Turkish, from kayik, and defines
it as a
"Levantine sailing vessel." (Istanbul cique
smaller and lighter, were skiffs which used to traverse the Bosphorus
as taxi
transport for the local populace.)
While
it has often
been
suggested that gulets evolved from tirhandils to utilize deck space in
order to
haul cargo from sponge diving expeditions, it seems that this may not
have been
the case. Peter Throckmorton, in The Lost Ships, writes of his
explorations for shipwrecks along the coast of Marmaris,
courtesy
of
the sponge divers familiar with the area:
Mandalinche
was the first
sponge boat that
I had ever been aboard. Thirty-six feet long,
she was double-ended and sloop-rigged. The hull was lovely, rather like
the famous "Colin Archer" Norwegian fishing boats, but not so deep in
the water...Kemal's boat was an aktarma, a variaton of the
design [of tirhandil] which had been devloped in Kalymnos, the center
of sponge diving in Greece, just across the channel from the Marmaris peninsula. An aktarma is very
maneuverable, a quality necessary to a boat which never anchors while
working, and which must keep up with the diver's movements on the
bottom.
Because tirhandils, despite
generally being the superior sailing vessel of the three, have less aft
deck
space for Blue Cruise voyages, they are not as frequently commissioned
by local
builders and thus remain elusive. Yet it is the tirhandil, more so than
the
gulet, which carries the most traditional elements of Aegean sailing
boats of
the last two millennium. As people realize that beauty and sea wothiness
is more important than plain functionality and deck space, the Aegean
Tirhandil will make a come back in to the hearts and souls of more
sophisticated mariners of the region.
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