Caique

The Balun is a 24-meter, two-masted Turkish gulet, a kind of wooden sailboat also known as a caique (pronounced "kai-eek"). ❋ Unknown (2009)

A party of us embarked in a sort of light boat called a caique, than which no species of vessel, save the gondola, cuts more softly and noiselessly through the waters. ❋ John Auldjo (N/A)

After a boat trip in a traditional "caique," an uphill walk will take excursionists to the crater of an active volcano. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Covert operatives would be infiltrated into Greece by planes and caique fishing boats. ❋ Douglas Waller (2011)

"When I started the business six years ago, the Balun was the only caique in Croatia," says Piero Bertoldi, the 45-year-old owner and captain of the ship. ❋ Unknown (2009)

(The Web sites www. cinqueterrecharter.com and www. croatia-yachting.hr are among several that list caique cruises in the region.) ❋ Unknown (2009)

Typically for a caique, the Balun has a slow but powerful diesel engine that allows it a cruising speed of roughly seven nautical miles per hour, and rarely uses its heavy canvas sails. ❋ Unknown (2009)

"A caique like the Balun is the camper of the seas," laughs Mr. Bertoldi. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Were I you, I would sooner set off to the Hyeres islands in a caique, on the chance of being captured by an Algerian corsair and sold to the ❋ Unknown (2007)

I have ridden in a caique upon the waters of the Bosphorus, and looked upon the capital of the ❋ Unknown (2006)

Here the caique is still in full perfection: there are thirty thousand boats of the kind plying between the cities; every boat is neat, and trimly carved and painted; and I scarcely saw a man pulling in one of them that was not a fine specimen of his race, brawny and brown, with an open chest and a handsome face. ❋ Unknown (2004)

The season was favourable; the north-west that blew would take us transversely across the gulph; and then we might find, in some abandoned port, a light Greek caique, adapted for such navigation, and run down the coast of the Morea, and, passing over the Isthmus of Corinth, without much land-travelling or fatigue, find ourselves at Athens. ❋ Unknown (2003)

Also, heavy drops of rain still bespattered our heads and shoulders, and at every peal of thunder the tree quivered and creaked until the strident din around us gave one the illusion of being afloat in a narrow caique. ❋ Unknown (2003)

It turned out that a caique was leaving for Sicily the following night, weather permitting, and that it would be perfectly easy to put the captain on board, 'Though we might have to kill one or two of those rotten bounders.' ❋ De Bernieres, Louis (2003)

For a moment she could feel the beat of the sun on her head, see its dazzle on the water and hear the slap of the small waves against the bow of the caique as it took her to Myros. ❋ Craven, Sara (2000)

She watched him move the tiller, heading the caique out into the open sea. ❋ Craven, Sara (2000)

She sat tensely in the bow as the caique pushed its way through the sparkling sunlit water. ❋ Craven, Sara (2000)

She was aware of curious glances as she sat in the bow of the caique watching Myros turn from an indis tinct blur into a tall, mountainous ridge, the lower slopes softened by patches of greenery. ❋ Craven, Sara (2000)

As the caique traversed the shoreline, Cressy saw long stretches of pale sand, sheltered by jagged rocks. ❋ Craven, Sara (2000)

The Caique is a very [sweet] [parrot]. ❋ OneBadAsp (2006)

"i went out with a [caique] [yesterday], it was [lovely]" ❋ Thecomb (2011)

[DJ Caique] worked magic on this diá[rio] de [bordo] 6 ❋ JustArapFANwhoTHINKS (2021)