In this episode of Sailing A B Sea we ask the question why is scuba diving not allowed and the 15th century fort at Bodrum provides the answer.We also motor sail to Kissebükü and meet up with Kevin & Dee from Sailing Kejstral Adventures. Check out their sailing channel here. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCu_TXBvLqimTelcfKu2Dkfg

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Baz is just looking at the furling mechanism  because it gets a bit stiff when it's just in the  

last little bits of unfurling. The reason why it's  not completely unfurling is because there's too  

much line on the drum so when we put it away we  get to our next anchorage we'll release the sheets  

and then get some of the furling line off  the drum and leave just one turn of furling  

line on the drum and that way when we do bring  it out there's more space for more line to go round the drum

I'm Barry, I'm Aannsha. This is the  continuing journey of Sailing A B Sea

Today we once again get to use our cards, museum  cards because we're going to visit the castle  

at Bodrum, ooh! We've heard it's very  good. Name parts. Oh the name yeah. Barry Jones...!

Tesekkurler. As soon as you come in the entrance um  just take an immediate right and that basically  

begins the walking around tour of the castle. Bodrum Castle, otherwise known as the Castle of Saint Peter

I think it had something to do the Knights of st john. Knights of Rhodes. So they  

also had a drawbridge, that's a proper castle  They only started constructing it at the  

beginning of the 15th century so it's not that old. It's older than some.  it's older than me and that's saying something

It would have taken them a long time to haul this up. These  stones here are also anchors and these are sort  

of like the original idea of an anchor. Obviously  it was a luxury castle because they have a hamam  

here. We haven't been to one of those yet. We've  probably got to do that before we leave Turkey  

But not only is this castle a castle it's also  the Museum of the Underwater Archaeology in the  

area so we're quite looking forward to seeing what  they've found on the seabed and put on display

I've never really considered it but there obviously was a lot of glassware produced  

and used in these ancient times. Some of these look  

so delicate. This one here at the back with  the stem on it the stem is up at the moment  

there's a picture of the diver actually  finding this and bringing it to the surface  

this ship was also carrying crates with a large  chunks of glass and there is thoughts that they  

were actually recycling the glass at this point  in time. It's shipwrecks and finds like this ship  

that's the reason why scuba diving in Turkey  without an authorized scuba diving guide along  

with you is not allowed it's totally restricted  because there's still so many shipwrecks and  

ancient artifacts still waiting to be discovered  and they just don't want tourists going along and  

going that looks nice, it'll look nice on my mantelpiece.  That's the reason why and I think it's a very  

valid reason. Stones with writing on them always  fascinate me and our friend Nikos is always  

saying, get a good shot of it maybe I'll be able to  translate it. See what he can do with this one Niko.

That's clever there's me wearing the  princess's golden necklace and thingamajigger

There's A B Sea over there

This catamaran down here is a uh a nightclub.  It's called the disco catamaran. They're  

getting it ready for reopening on the 1st of  July and we've seen them at night time testing  

some of the lighting rig, it's quite impressive  but I'm pretty sure that you wouldn't want to be  

anchored too close to that once their sound system  starts up because I've also had a quick squiz at  

some of their speakers and they are going to  pump out a lot of duff duff duff. Oh it's also  

the biggest floating disco in the world. Well that  was excellent. It was fantastic. Yeah if you're in the  

Bodrum area you really should visit this fort it  is, it's just great. There is so much to see and um  

I don't know how much it cost because we used our  Muzekarts but whatever the cost it's really well  

worth paying because it's just full of treasures  from under the sea isn't it? It's just amazing yeah  

Gosh yeah. Okay so now my stomach tells me it's  around about lunchtime we're gonna try and find  

uh somewhere to get a take away doner durum because we haven't had a doner durum in Bodrum

and we've got to add that to our list. Then  shopping and then back to the boat. Yeah. Alright.

We were both down below working  on our computers and we heard  

a guy shouting in Turkish, we came up on deck and  this guy was on a lilo, a floating bed and the wind  

had blown him all the way out and he couldn't  get back. So Baz has just taken him back to  

shore. I guess the takeaway of this  is if you or your children have  

floating devices like lilos, floating beds, floating  unicorns, just be aware how powerful the wind is  

and make sure that you or your kids don't end up  blowing somewhere where you would be in trouble

Morning. Morning. We're off to Kissebuku today. We are, we  are departing Bodrum. It's been great here. Yeah  

it has actually. Basically we've spent a week doing  nothing much which is something we don't do often  

enough. Yeah yeah actually you're right, often enough. And

we're going to Kissebuku

which is about uh just over two hours away  to meet up with another YouTube channel  

Can you guess who it is? They're in Turkey  so are we, that's all the clues you're getting  

Anyway we'll introduce you  to them when we get there

We are saying goodbye to  Bodrum for now. We will return  

Just look at all the AIS  signals in the marina there

Baz is just looking at the furling mechanism  because it sort of gets a bit stiff when  

it's just in the last little bits of unfurling but  having the head sail up has given us an extra knot  

of speed of the ground. Also the reason why  it's not completely unfurling is because  

there's too much line on the drum so when  we put it away we get to our next anchorage  

what we'll do is we'll release the sheets and  then get some of the furling line off the drum and  

leave just one turn of furling line on the drum  and that way when we do bring it out there's more  

space for more lines to go around the drum. That's  what's happening. But I can't believe how stiff  

the sheets and lines are with salt.  Already. Already yeah yeah. So at some  

point we've got to find somewhere where we  get loads of fresh water and do some washing

As you can see we've tacked and  uh while there isn't that much wind  

to fill this massive sail it is still helping us  

gain an extra half to one knot of speed so  probably still take a couple of hours to get there

Coming into the anchorage and now the wind  picks up! There's always a fair amount of  

swell in this inlet as you can see with  the amount of bounce on that little boat

Kissebukue. Kissebuku. We are here uh took a little  over two hours didn't it?  

Yeah. Yeah okay it's 12:40. We've arrived  and we've magically parked right next  

to Kev and Dee on Kejstral. That's the  YouTubers that we're coming to meet. Aha!  

So we'll catch up with them as soon as  we finish putting the boat to bed. Okay  

But that was all right it was good? Yeah it  was good, yeah it was nice. The wind was kind  

of working with us. Yeah it was a little bit it  didn't didn't completely fail us like usual. No

and it did pick up really nicely once we got into  the bay just as we just as... Just as we were anchoring.

As you can probably hear. ... See yeah. See look.

This is my wind vane

Hello welcome! Hiya. You've been in Turkey for five years? Too long!

We've actually been in Turkey now, in total since we bought an apartment. 2006 we bought an apartment here.

So we've been coming and going ever since. But we've been here since 2014. Cheers! Yeah cheers!

There's always something that you can put on your video isn't there?

I know! We just been through so many experiences you wouldn't believe it honestly.

After sharing some food, some drink and some bloody  good stories it was time for Kev and Dee on Kejstral 

to head back up to Didim for a little while  before they headed south down in the general  

direction of Kekova. No doubt we'll meet up with  them somewhere along the Turkish coast very soon

See you soon. Take it easy  

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