In this episode of Sailing A B Sea we continue anchorage hopping Turkey summer 2021 and put the last of the weekend lock downs behind us.

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Closed Captions (CC):
Well ... [laughs]

Well here we are, we're in Marmaris  

and ... No we're not! No we're not. He's the  captain and he doesn't know where we are. Pfff!

Here we are and we're in...

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

Bye bye sleep

bye bye sweet dreams, hello rolliness I think I'm gonna cry. Bye bye my sleep bye bye

[Aannsha from down below] We're not putting that in!

What do you mean we're not putting that in? That's  classic that is. It is 8 a.m on Friday morning and we  

had planned to leave Gemiler Bay at around about  10 o'clock this morning but we had such a rolly  

well half of the night really from around  about 1.30 until about 5.00 um very rolly  

so we had little sleep and we've got up  early because we were just lying there going errr

and we've prepped the boat any ... everything topside is prepped  

uh Aannsha's just doing some final ship-shapeness  down below. Dishes! Dishes as one of those  

things because if you don't put them away  they're bound to fall over. We've got two hours  

to get to Fethiye. Well we haven't got two hours  it will take two hours to get to Fethiye. Which should  

see us in there before lunch time. We're gonna drop  anchor and swing freely there then we're there for  

the weekend really because of the final weekend  lockdown here in Turkey which is great news  

so once the first of June rolls around  things should start getting back to normal  

here in Turkey. The restaurants will start opening  at 50 capacity, restricted hours I think it's  

something like seven o'clock uh in the morning  until eight o'clock at night something like  

that and then they'll see how things go but yeah  some semblance of normality should be returning  

Right now though it's time for me to grab some  cereal for breakfast and then fire up the old girl  

I've already checked the engine, it's all looking good  so two hours from now we'll be in Fethiye. It's always

a good start to the day when the engine just fires  up, all the instrument warning lights blink out, we  

have full instrumentation on the chart platter, AIS fix and everything else is ready to rock and roll

We're about 45 minutes / an hour away from our  anchorage which is kind of somewhere down here so  

what we've got to do is come around this headland  in through the gap round through here and down  

into here. Here's what it looks like in real life,  we're about to go around this little headland here  

and head towards the next headland and then  tuck in to the entrance to the bay of Fethiye

Looking across our port side and we can see  the head I guess you would call it of the  

Göcek area these are the outer islands of  Göcek and behind those is a large sailing  

area and we do actually have a plan to go to Göcek and do some filming in there in particular  

the migros supermarket ship, the ice cream man, the  bread man and the fruit and veg man, they all come  

around on boats and we're hoping to catch those  when we are anchored in a particular bay over  

in the Göcek area but that's another story for  another day. Right now we're on our way to Fethiye

As we come up here there's quite a lot of  submerged rocks and we have a north cardinal  

marker because there's quite a shallow spot  there probably deep enough for us but certainly  

not for bigger boats with the bigger drafts  but anyway we're going to stay north of that  

cardinal marker as we head into the inner harbour  of Fethiye. Here is the north cardinal marker and  

a lot of the fishing boats and the local  daytripper boats are all passing on the south side  

of the north cardinal marker because obviously  they've got shallow draft and they can get  

through there without any problems but um I'm not  taking any chances because also apart from that  

the fishermen around here seem to think it's a  great idea to drop their crab pots in this area  

too. I've just passed one on the port side, there's  one just coming up here on the starboard side uh  

there's another one just out there which looks  like it's just got a little coca-cola bottle as  

the marker but this is the main entrance into the  Fethiye bay itself and it's around about this time  

of day 9 30 / 10 o'clock in the morning that all  the charter boats and daytripper boats are heading  

out. So a bit busy bit of traffic but we should be  fine. What a great spot to park your camper van, you  

can just sit there and watch the world go by, the  boats coming in and out all day

Top spot well done

There's the west cardinal marker boy there

And here comes the Migros supermarket boat

Looks like they do deliveries as well.  Yeah free delivery, how cool is that?

Meanwhile... Just a little bit busy with  the boats that actually do have AIS  

transmitters uh and that doesn't  include the ones that don't  

which is probably more than half. But they are parked in the marina which we're passing now

Even the anchorage looks busy

Yeah. I'm sure we'll find a spot

Thirty. Okay let her settle

Let out another five and then snub it.

Kev, Kev shouldn't be there. Kev! Kev!

Well [laughs]

Well here we are, we're in  Marmaris and... No we're not! 

No we're not. He's the captain  and he doesn't know where we are! Pfff!

Here we are and we're in Fethiye and we are pretty much  in the same position that we were at last time  

Yeah. Right next to the school. Yeah  but we won't be hearing the school  

song anymore - No - at the moment because school's out until September I believe - yeah - yeah  

Anyhoozle we're here, we've got some work to  do because it's Friday and we've got to write blogs  

yeah and I've got the closed captions to do. Yeah  and then uh we've got to get the dingy down after  

we've done that and go into town and provision  for the weekend which is lockdown weekend  

Yeah we're hoping it's the last one - yeah - the  word on the street is that from the first of June  

it'll all open up for tourism. We've got our ears  to the water! But at the moment this final lockdown  

weekend ... you can't buy booze at the weekend  so we have to you know stock Barry up in beer  

You can get food - if you need to go ashore and  get food and stuff at the weekends that's fine  

If I'm going to be stuck on the boat  with you all weekend I need beer!

Thank god I''ve got my gin that's all I'm going  to say! But Kev's just dropping his anchor next  

to us - yep - and yeah we'll settle in for the  weekend. Yeah it's all good. I mean it's a great  

spot, we're going to get a good night's sleep,  there'll be no rolly rolly here but unfortunately  

the only thing about Fethiye is you don't want to  go swimming in the water because it's brownie  

greeny kind of colour. Yeah kind of matches the  trees and stuff but you don't want to swim in it

All right. Right closed captions for you - okay - blog  for me. Right

It seems that somewhere along the

way this spring we picked up a hitchhiker, a queen  ant. Look compared to my finger they're very small  

ants but we we've just noticed them around  the cockpit area and we finally traced them back  

to the swim platform hinge so I'm going to  guess that they've ... the queen has made the nest  

inside the gubbins of the gas locker and we can't  get to that particular spot so what we've done is  

been out and we've bought an ant rid thing, put  it down and within 30 seconds they found it  

and then hey presto they're all out having a good  feed and hopefully taking it back to the nest  

and feeding it to the royalty which should fix the  problem. And the conversation went something like  

this: "Hey we found food pass it on! Hey we found  food pass it on!" And then the queen said "That's  

wonderful, go, eat and bring the rest back to me my  lovelies." "Yes your highness". Or something like that! 

And she hasn't been drinking!  No, we've been driving for five days!  

So we'll leave that out overnight obviously and  uh see whether they're still doing their choo  

choo train thing in the morning or whether there's  just a heap of carcasses. Look at this little fella  

up here, he's lost, he doesn't know where he's going.  "Where was the food where did he say the food was?"  

"Where, where, was it up here? Mummy." There's always one . ""Oh!"

It's the next day and that ant killer or ant rid

really did the job, very good stuff, highly  recommended. Once we started cleaning up the  

dead bodies we found out actually where the queen  had chosen to make her nest and it's actually  

inside the door to the swim platform and I'll show  you how she got in and it's something that we've  

got to fix. So here on the lower hinge we can see  that one of the screws is missing. I didn't know  

that was missing so as soon as we get back to Kaş I'm going to take one of these out, get down to  

the hardware store and get a replacement so we  can seal that hole and not make it an inviting  

little place for any other flying queen insects  to come and make a house. Today is the first of  

June and we are leaving Fethiye and heading just  two hours across the bay to the Göcek area. We're  

hoping to be able to find some space there, there  are rumours around that it's really really chockers  

I guess the only way we're going to find out is  by poking our nose in there and of course a lot  

of the anchorages in the Göcek area require  a line of shore so we're gonna hopefully find a  

spot where we can get a line ashore without  um messing things up. Let's see how we do eh!

Well if you don't mind flashing the cash that's  one way of getting your big power cruiser  

delivered to where you need it. I'm guessing the  amount of litres per hour that these big boys use  

it's much cheaper just to get them  piggybacked on the uh transport boat 

Lots of turkish warships anchored out here at the  moment. They've been doing their naval war games 

in the surrounding waters and I think they finish  up on the 6th of June, so another week to go  

Fethiye is behind us, this is the gap we're aiming for  and this is our preferred anchorage with a line  

of shore. If that one doesn't work out there are  a couple of others here that are reasonable, if  

not then there's one two three up the coast that  are potentials and if none of those work out then  

we're coming out through the other big gap and  we're heading around the coast and we're going  

to our bailout plan which is Ekincik, which is uh  quite a few hours up the coast in that direction

That's why we're motoring

but the sea is lovely and glossy... calm

it's got that sort of liquid silk look about it

We're going through there  

It's very busy in this area, obviously  Göcek is famous for its sailing  

Nobody's sailing today though, but we've  been watching lots of boats coming out  

through the passage that we're going  to, fortunately it's nice and clear now  

Just approaching the smaller gap and it tells us  on the chart that we can expect depths of around  

about 13 metres and uh pretty steep sides so we  should be quite safe getting through here even if  

some traffic comes through from the other side. Aannsha's all geared up ready to take a line ashore

I'm not doing it with the fins

And here just looking through the gap along the  shoreline ahead there's quite a few boats  

already parked up and that is just one  small section of the Göcek area that  

we're looking at, so it is an extremely popular  extremely busy part of the turkish sailing areas

Well I just nixed the Göcek the plan. Göcek it's a huge area and we can spend all day  

putting our nose into every single bay. They might  be busy, there may be spaces and maybe this or  

maybe that but the thing is I can't take a chance that  we're going to run out of time for us to get to an  

anchorage where we can just drop anchor and swing  freely. All this line and short stuff, it's  

just too stressful. It's as simple as that, it's too  stressful. So we're going to find a place where we  

can drop an anchor and swing freely and that's  not inside the Göcek area.

If you've had an

insect or pest invasion on your boat how have you  dealt with it? Let us know in the comments below  

Thanks for watching Sailing A B Sea guys and gals and  until we see you next week stay safe and healthy