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California Yacht Club (CYC) Staff Commodore Martin McCarthy is speaking about his trip through the Greek Islands of the Cyclades in the Aegean Sea, during a July 23 luncheon being held at the club beginning at noon. McCarthy recently joined a group of 120 passengers aboard the classic sailing ship, Star Clipper. With some 37,000 square feet of sail silently propelling this graceful custom-built 400’ Barkentine, the ship is the sailor's answer to taking a professional cruise ship.
The Cyclades consist of approximately 220 islands, many of them uninhabited. Long ago, these alluring Greek isles were landing places of an endless tide of invaders from ancient Phoenicia, Persia, the Peloponnesus, Imperial Rome and Constantinople. Then followed the waves of European Crusader knights, Genoan mariners, Venetian merchants and Turkish troops of the Ottoman Empire. They stormed ashore to conquer – only to be vanquished by time and absorbed into the dry volcanic earth. All that remains are their stone ruins, which are now ghostly shapes wrapped in myth and mystery.
The islands offer quaint whitewashed villages with twisting cobblestone alleyways leading to tavernas where octopus salad and ouzo are in order. Additionally, ancient Minoan palaces and medieval fortresses whisper tales of pagan rites and knightly rituals – such are the Cyclades!
Happy Half Hour – Noon
Bountiful Buffet Luncheon – 12:15 p.m.
Presentation 12:30 p.m.
$15.08 includes Luncheon, tax, service and parking.
Reservations are appreciated.
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Open to all who love yachting, as a public service of CYC.
California Yacht Club
4469 Admiralty Way – Marina del Rey – 310.823.4567 – www.CalYachtClub.org
Photo of windmills at top: Titanas, Ios island, Cyclades, Greece 2007.
Photo below, courtesy of Martin McCarthy.
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