SPECIFICATIONS :

LOA: 14.8 METERS

BEAM: 5.20 METERS

ENGINE: 135hp FORD MARINE DIESEL

CABINS: 3 (ONE MASTER WITH HEAD)

HEADS:2

FRESH WATER: 1000 LITERS

PRESSURIZED SYSTEM

HOT WATER TANK : 60 LITERS

NAVIGATION: MAGELLAN CHART PLOTTER GPS

12/220V INVERTOR

STEREO SYS: 4 CH CD/MP3 70WX4

MAX CAPACITY: 8 PERSONS

COMFORT CAPACITY: 4-6

MAX SPEED ENG: 9 Knots

ECON. CRUISE ENG: 6 Knots

SAIL CRUISE: 4-8 Knots

12/220V ICE MAKER REFRIGERATOR

 

The 15.5 meter long Tirhandil style Tango is the ideal size vessel for private "bleu voyage" sailing on the Aegean. Tango is a good sample of a typical Bodrum Tirhandil. It's length is the ideal size for this style a boat, allowing the most amount of space for the comfort of it's guests yet staying within the traditional size of Tirhandils which is under 16 meters. Built by one of Bodrum's most respected boat builder Çolak Erol in 1991, Tango represents the best craftsmanship and sturdiness of the wooden boat heritage of Bodrum.

The boat is totally renovated in 2002-2003 winter, being equipped with the latest navigation electronics, sound system and other hygienic amenities.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

TIRHANDIL

 

And the elusive tirhandil?

 

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 caiques, 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.