In this episode of Sailing A B Sea we end up hiding from big wind in Datca the perfect spot. Sailing and living at anchor is always a constant game of playing hide and seek with the wind. We seek out a perfect spot at the Turkish town of Datca to hide from big wind from the north. #SailingABSea A brief history of our story and in depth personal blogs that bring you along on our journey can be found at https://www.absea.com.au/ GET MORE WITH PATREON - https://www.patreon.com/SailingABSea FOLLOW US ON FACEBOOK - https://web.facebook.com/SailingABSea/ READ OUR BLOGS - https://www.absea.com.au/blogs PICS ON INSTAGRAM - https://www.instagram.com/sailingabsea/ Discover Aannsha's 'Mermaid's Treasures' and 'Neptune's Bounty' gift ideas here - https://www.absea.com.au/mermaid-s-treasure-store Still photos and videos are shot using the Canon EOS M3 with either the EF-S 18–55mm IS STM lens or the EF-M 55–200mm IS STM lens. https://amzn.to/2RpDNzU Underwater video is shot using GoPro Hero 4 Silver https://amzn.to/3uF9eED Sony action cam HDR AS300R https://amzn.to/3t7AJpW Still shots & video Samsung Galaxy S6 We record live sound when possible with a Takstar SGC 598 https://amzn.to/2OEQjdR and voice over sound with a Yeti Blue https://amzn.to/3wNio3B Intro music: Truth of the Legend Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ Quietly-Confident-Outlook-FULL-SM452 by Grenga and Stevens.mp3 Honey_and_Milk by the 126ers.mp3 Destination_Unknown.mp3 Audio Hero music\37_Stepping-Stones-to-Success_ALT_SM487.mp3 Sunshine_on_Sand by Unicorn Heads

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just rounded the peninsula and

that is turkey and that

is the greek island of semi and we're

crossing

through greek waters towards its tip to

get to

dacha on the turkish peninsula which is

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further

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705 in the morning and we

are departing um

we've got about a four hour trip ahead

of us up to dacha

and um it wasn't too bad tonight the the

wind dropped and the rolly rolly stopped

and what little rolly-rolly there was

was liverpool

this guy's out having fun early in the

morning speeding around

over here we can see the first

restaurant jetty that we attempted to

get onto but there was nobody there but

obviously there was somebody there later

on because all of those boats are on

there now

so maybe it wouldn't have been nice and

romantic as

and andrea anticipated it would be with

just us

enjoying the tranquility and solitude of

the restaurant anyhoozle

that's that and it's onwards and upwards

what's happening skipper

oh wow just updated the logs so we're

all good

right okay okay well i'll um get this

boat up to speed

and get appointed in the right direction

that's always a good idea

all right

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just rounded the peninsula and

that is turkey and that

is the greek island of semi and we're

sort of

crossing through greek waters

towards its tip to get to dacha on the

turkish peninsula which is further up

sun's trying to do its thing

that's rather lovely with the sun patch

on there

okay our parrot wind is 14 and a half

knots

coming from a good direction so we've

actually got both sails out

and we're doing around about six knots

on average

as we sail up the east coast of the

greek island of semi

the wind is shifting from between 12

knots

to 20 knots apparent and so

accordingly our speed is changing as

well sometimes it's down to around about

4.5

next thing you know it's up to around

about 6.5

so we're just going with this because

once we get to the northern tip of semi

we've got to turn west which will take

us back into the wind

as we make our track towards dacha so

enjoying the sailing while we can and

we'll see what happens when we get round

the northern tip

of semi

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mainsail's doing a bit of flapping so

got the admiral up at the boom

tightening up the leech line and putting

a knot in it there is a little um

thing that we want to do to sort that

out so it's a clank kind of like a snap

block thing but we haven't got around to

that yet it's on the list

yeah that's right if you pull it tight

as yeah

beautiful yeah

well done admiral

now get below make some cute color

sandwiches and tea

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well that was interesting we've just had

a drive by from the

greek coast guard out of simi we did

cross over into greek territorial waters

but i'm assuming we have rise of passage

there is a lot of stuff going on with

refugees

coming across from turkey into greece on

boats at the moment so it's possible

that they were

coming to check out whether we were

loaded up with refugees

and um carrying them across borders but

there's just the two of us sat in the

cockpit they came alongside

near enough we gave them a nice wave

and they waved back and turned around

and went the other way

just be aware of that if you are at the

moment with the uh the situation with

the closed borders

the refugee situation and also the

ongoing spat between turkey and greece

when you do

cross territorial boundaries in the

water

you might get checked out but it was all

good

hey the sun's coming out it's gonna be a

good day

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so

another successor

i'm in the middle of making lunch but

we've just anchored in dacha

and our mate ishmael who is on

wonder has just texted and says uh hey

mate welcome to dacha

why are you at anchor the town harbor is

free come on anchor next to me

and i'll help you with the lions so

lunch is on hold yeah

because the wind's picking up so we

thought we'd do it now rather than later

yeah

we're actually in here because the wind

will pick up in the next couple of days

and gusts up to 40 knots so

why not go on the turnkey yeah because

it's free

yeah it's monday morning and we're just

about to up anchor and go to our next

destination

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down the anchor ball

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this palm tree over here we can see from

the

companionway of abc and it's quite

indicative of how hard the wind is

blowing

fortunately these buildings here are

really giving us some

serious protection from the northern

wind

here we've got abc parked up along the

keysight

at dacha quite calm here where we are

no fetch obviously and certainly uh no

big swell

but just out at the entrance to the bay

we can see

the beginnings of whitecaps and if we

take you around the corner

we will actually see six last time we

looked and counted six huge freighters

and cargo ships

anchored up in the bay uh getting

protection

from this strong northerly wind that's

uh

forecast to get an awful lot stronger

over the next 24 to 48 hours

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wind is generally measured on the

beaufort scale but we like to measure it

on the freighter scale

here in the bay we can see one two

three four five six freighters

all anchored up in this relatively

protected bay from the wind which is

blowing from the north

also another sign that you're in a windy

spot is the amount of

uh wind generators that you can see on

the ridge line

right now we have a steady 35 knots

gusting to 40 and it's meant to get

up to 45 knots by around about nine

o'clock ten o'clock tonight

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so

we've just come to my donna's alley

which was recommended to us by our mate

ishmael and uh we've had our donna

durham here

and it was pretty bloody good nice juicy

yeah very fresh i think it's going to be

a theme as we travel up the turkish

coast to check out the donna durham's

uh in each of the towns that we stop at

so this is the guy that we buy the

chickens from and they come with these

um

roasted onion and like a big jacket

potato we thought we'd buy two because

of the weekend coming up

so this will cover us for the weekend

and he just puts them here

in his window and they are absolutely

delicious

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this is thatcher south harbour on the

eve

of ramadan month in turkey

and we've got an awful lot of the locals

out

enjoying food and drinks and

conversation

and probably talking about you know how

they're going to get through the month

of ramadan

and um making the most of it before it

happens because it's a it's a whole

month

where muslims are not allowed to consume

any food during

daylight hours so they can only eat

after the sun goes down

but they can't eat when the sun comes up

and this is one of the biggest

religious months for the muslim faith

we've just finished editing the latest

video

it's uploading right now and we're just

sitting out on deck enjoying the last of

the sunshine before it goes down behind

the houses

i'm just having a cup of tea and of

course i'm having

an fs then we're going to

reconfigure our lines because we're

planning on leaving here tomorrow at 7

o'clock in the morning

so we want them just prepped and ready

to go so we can start the engine

slip the lines pull the anchor up and go

so what do you reckon i reckon that's

his plan

right have you shown them

the passerail oh it's gone from the

passerella

doom to the passerella dicey nearly

dying

because our rudder is set so far back on

this particular model of you know

we can't get too close to the keysight

here

because it shallows off really quickly

and we have scraped a little bit of the

anti-fail off the bottom of the river so

we've pulled away as far as we can

while still having some connection half

the wheel

with the battery to the keysight

it's just dodgy as you probably won't be

able to pick this up

but um it's kind of two meters deep

there and then this

load of boulders and everything just

comes straight up until it gets to less

than half a meter here

against the keysight wall

we just left another anchorage as we

continue our journey up and down the

turkish coast in the summer of 2021

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