DIPPED IN SUNSHINE

There are those who, as the saying goes, have a girl in every port and those, like Rahmi M Koç CBE, who have a boat in every city they live in. The honourary chairman of Koç Holding has dozens of yachts and many mansions, mostly built on the water or at least very near the sea. Although he’s originally from Turkey’s landlocked capital Ankara, he feels much more at ease when he is near what he calls “the most beautiful among the elements”.

Istanbul is his home, but every year he spends a few weeks in Miami, London, Lesbos, Provence and on, a 1925 William Fife III 12-M yacht, and T/T , a tender that belonged to the Vanderbilt family. The latter is one of the 16,000 items on display at the Istanbul museum founded by Mr Koç and named after him.