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hopefully the wind that they're

promising for tomorrow is is coming in

because right across the bay here in the

direction of bodrum

when we can see that we take a a left

and and head up

uh past gamoche look and around to the

other side of that bay to anchor

for tomorrow night protected again from

the

predicted wind

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should be free

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thank you

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because the last thing we do when we are

anchoring

is we put it up to 3 000 revs in reverse

to make sure the anchor is well dug in

and we're not going to move overnight

that means that the propeller the gory

folding prop

is actually left open in the reverse

position

so when we move off the next day the

propeller is still in the reverse

position

in other words it's in the overdrive

position so to

get back into normal dry position i go

forward until i've got about five knots

of weight which we've got right now in

the overdrive

position then i bring her back into

neutral

that's neutral then take it into reverse

and give it a quick blast like that

and that feathers the prop now

into the closed position so when we go

back into forward

we are now as you can hear from the revs

being so high

back into the normal dry position of the

prop so this is an idiosyncrasy or a

feature of the gory folding prop

and it's actually taken me three years

to get my head around

that simple maneuver there's very little

instruction on this

on the on the interwebs so hopefully if

you're thinking about a gory folding

prop

you'll find that interesting onwards

not sure if this camera will pick this

up but there is quite a bit of swell

rolling along here and that is quite

surprising how much swell there is

considering it was so calming in that

bay last night which was quite exposed

to

this portion of water this is the

anchorage we were in

and the swell is coming in from this

angle here

so it was quite uh quite nicely

protected in there now today we are

going past the greek island of coss and

we're going to try and not provoke any

international incidents by staying

on the on the borderline between greece

and turkey

we just had a change of plan we were

going to

kachookbook but we've had a chat with

our friend jim

and he's up and he did it in uh bay

which is

in the did in bay area so

we are going to head up there and meet

up with him

in order to do that we really need to

increase our speed so

we brought the sails out but we're also

still motor sailing

because there isn't really that much

wind we're hoping that there's enough

wind

to give us just an extra knot and that

will make

the journey a little bit shorter so um

what's our speed captain 7.4

7.4 that's pretty okay

we should get there before dark now

off our started side is mainland turkey

and bodrum is over in that direction

there

we are about to go around that headland

there and take a right however off our

port side is the northern tip of the

greek island of kos

this camera probably won't pick it up

but this is a quite a major town here

and i can see a huge fortification on

the uh on the coastline there so

presumably a very important place

in ancient times that came under attack

quite a lot

just hear the head sail flogging this uh

wind is very inconsistent at the moment

and we're not sure what will happen once

we get around the corner

we'll wait and see just had an

interesting phone call with my mate mike

from cash marina

he's out about at the moment he's

actually just going into

basically where we were a couple of

nights ago

and he he informed us we don't watch the

tv in fact we don't have any tv

reception

we don't buy newspapers we stay away

from all that

he's just informed me that during the

month of ramadan

here in turkey that the turkish

government has now

basically banned travel between the

provinces of turkey so for example

cash marina is in in antalya province

where we are right now is mueller

province and where we were planning to

stop at the next seto marina which is uh

kushidasa

that is in the next province up which is

izmir

so we can't pass between the borders of

those

provinces the usual curfews for the

weekend are happening so no travel at

weekends saturday and sunday and also

no travel from seven o'clock at night

until

five o'clock in the morning that really

doesn't affect us because we travel

during the daylight hours anyway

so we're gonna head up to this anchorage

which is just to the

east of did him we're going to meet up

with jim on acheron

we're going to sit down and have a chat

with him and

figure out what we're going to do

luckily the province of mueller

is very big the coastline is very large

and there's lots and lots of places that

we can explore

that's what's happening with the

lockdowns in turkey during the month of

ramadan

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the plans of sailors are written in the

sand at low tide

we're so close to greece that island is

coss that we can see one of the greek

ferries the blue star ferries

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this is the tip of the bodrum peninsula

that we are going around

so we'll be going around there

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well it's only 20 meters deep here

so we're thinking that that boy there is

for fishing boats to tie up to when they

go fishing

that's a d marin marina

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that's look in there

and we visited there last time we were

in turkey you can find out all about

gamuche look

if you go to our anchorage's series

basically we're heading in the right

direction for the bay that we're going

to get into

there's an isolated danger just up ahead

once we pass that

a couple of degrees to starboard and

we'll bang on course

and about two hours out if the wind

keeps blowing like it is

so not bad

knots at the moment we did get 8.1 knots

at one point that was a bit exciting

it was almost almost break out the

bottle of champagne

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the head cell was flogging so we put it

away

and now look how the boat's moving from

side to side

against the clouds that's a bit better

it's not moving quite so much

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we're going around there nearly there

it's been a long haul

that's where we've got to go and

we can finally see acheron on ais

but before we can anchor we're going to

put this baby away

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i think i know why mantis has made a

mark ii of its chain hook

do you want to explain as much as i love

manta's products you'll hear me raving

on about mantis anchor quite a lot

and we sort this out in athens in greece

and it is a super piece of metal

however the design fault is this little

piece of plastic

and you know when i bought it i thought

surely that's an accident waiting to

happen

because every time you hook this in and

out you've got to

lift it up to get that little plastic

bit

over the metal well the thing is it's

it's eventually going to

get a str stress fracture here and break

which it did

so um i don't know love my mantis

products

but this one bit of a disappointment

really

not sure what we're gonna do it still

stays on the chain because of the design

um but you know you've not got that

locking security mechanism anymore

it still works it still does its job

we'll see what ident can come up before

we get back to cash

well maybe mantis would like to give us

a mark two to try and review

maybe would you reckon mantis we are

anchored

just east of did him in a bay called

akbook and this is a

super well protected spot particularly

from the wind that is coming into

this area on saturday as you can see

that is gusting up to 37 38 39 knots

and it's coming from the south so we're

going to just

relocate our anchor and

obviously our boat position in this bay

to give us a little bit more protection

from that southern wind

uh actually we're just gonna go a little

bit further south

into this bay

so yeah we will uh we will be having to

do this at night

but the great thing is as i say we've

got our marks on the shore

and we're fairly confident that mantis

is not going anywhere

boat life eh

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