Take It Easier is a 38.6 metre Bodrum gulet, hand built in wood in 2007 and given a thorough refit that brought her hull, systems and interior up to current standards. She belongs to a particular kind of holiday, the slow Turkish and Greek summer spent moving between quiet coves, long lunches on deck and swims off the stern. Few yachts of her size do that as completely, and her five cabin layout makes her a natural choice for a family or a group of friends travelling together.
What sets her apart first is the deck space. A gulet lives outdoors, and Take It Easier is built around that idea. Wide teak decks run the length of the yacht, shaded where it matters and open to the sun where it does not. The foredeck is given over to sunbathing, a broad run of white cushions with a clear view forward over the bow. Aft and along the sides, dining and lounging areas sit close to the water, set for the long meals and lazy afternoons that define a week aboard.
The water is never far. Her toy locker is unusually deep for a gulet, with jet skis, e-foils, seabobs and towables alongside the yacht’s own inflatable slide and climbing wall rigged off the stern. Mornings can start with a run on the jet ski and end with the whole party in the water off the swim platform. For active families this is the heart of the appeal, a yacht that turns a calm anchorage into a full day on the sea.
Below and inside, the mood turns warm and traditional. The main saloon is finished in honeyed timber against pale upholstery, with a wide seating area and a dining table that keeps the group together when the weather turns or the evening cools. A wheelhouse forward gives the crew their own working space while keeping the classic gulet feel intact. It is a simple, comfortable interior that does exactly what it needs to, a cool retreat from the sun rather than a second living room competing with the deck.
Accommodation runs to five cabins for up to eleven guests. A full beam master sits aft with room to move and its own bathroom, matched by a series of double and twin cabins that suit couples, children and mixed parties equally. Eight crew look after the yacht and her guests, a generous number for her size and a large part of why a week aboard feels genuinely effortless.
Take It Easier cruises the Turkish coast and the Greek islands through the summer, the sheltered water around Bodrum and Gocek giving way to the Dodecanese a short hop west. She moves at a relaxed pace, and that is the point. The recent refit means the yacht that guests step aboard today feels sound and current rather than tired, with new systems behind the traditional timber and a RINA classification to back it. This is a yacht for owners and charterers who measure a good day by swims taken and meals shared rather than miles covered, a classic gulet run by a crew who know exactly how that week should feel.
