In this episode of Sailing A B Sea we show you around the super protected Turkish anchorage of Serce Limani (north) and when we move to a new anchorage the following day we spend just a little time there and we now know why it's not a marked anchorage.

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Just coming up to one o'clock in the afternoon  

and we've discovered why this  is not marked as an anchorage  

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

We'll tell you soon why that bay at Bozburun isn't an authorised anchorage but let's return  

to Serce Limani where we left you last week.  Join us as we check out the secluded bay

Welcome to Captain Nemo's Farm Restaurant arrghhh

Merhaba. We've come for a beer. You like beer, you like walking

Well we've just had calamari, french fries what was that you had? Eggplant and zucchini  

so aubergine and courgette with yogurt ...  fried in garlic with yogurt on the top yum and  

a couple of beers glass of wine. Very large glass of wine. Hang on

I've just got... I just got side  tracked here. Look at this little fella

Oh sweetie tweety. It's not even old enough to  be a pullet. No it doesn't know what it is  

There's another one here. So we're just going  to wander down the road outside the restaurant  

yeah - down to the little place where the  fishing boats tie up and just how it look-see

there's nothing here that's touristy, it's  just a little Turkish spot where you can come  

and enjoy the delights, tie your  yacht back to the restaurant jetty  

Our dinghy's on the other side of the jetty  there that's the restaurant, lots and lots  

of Aussie gum trees in there that they planted.  Apparently the guy's been there for 50 years and  

that's what he does in this little spot. And then  there's a few fishing boats here. It's just very  

beautiful, it's very simple and... Simple and  picturesque. Yeah. I think this guy's got  

trees growing on his boat. What's  that all about? Shade. Shade okay

That's A B Sea on a mooring ball. So the goatses  that we can hear is this big fella up on  

the top of the mountain standing on  the edge of course as goatses do

There's a buoy there as well

Oh perfect for tying a line ashore, there's like  rocks and rocks and rocks as far as the eye can  

see, perfect. And um it's fairly sandy most of  the way, there are a few rocks but not sort of  

real big boulders that you'd necessarily have  to worry about um as you came back to the shore

And goats. Gotta love those goats

Here she is

As the sun goes down over here we can  see smoke from a wildfire that's burning  

and they've just started, the helicopters have  started coming over with the water bombing  

this is the third one that's come across  and there's another one just over there  

which has already dropped its load um so they're  gonna hopefully get that fire under control. So  

we'll put some information in the description if  anybody would like to donate to Turkey or Greece  

to help them to fight these fires and to help  the communities rebuild after the fires. Yep  

Morning! Morning. It's Friday not that that  means anything, I'm just telling you what day it is

Yeah, somebody asked that yesterday  on a an older video didn't they?  

Does 9.30 on a Sunday mean anything to you?  Yeah, the answer's not particularly - No - In fact  

some days we have to look at the phone  or the computer and go what day is it? 

But we know it's Friday today - yeah - we do  definitely do. I do because he just said so!

Just a little hop today um it's only going to be  a little over two hours which is fabulous darling  

Yeah we like short hops. We're heading up to the uh  Bozburun area and we're gonna meet up with Kev on  

his boat Barbara Ann so yeah just an early start  so we get there early so we can just sit around  

and write blogs in the afternoon. Yeah yay! But  I'm going to make coffee on the go so that will  

be fun if it's wavy. I don't think there'll be anything this morning. It's been so flat  in here but you can't really tell until you're out  

can you? No but this this is uh very nice. Anyway definitely recommend this anchorage if you are  

in the vicinity and you want something well  protected and nice and peaceful and quiet  

Okay let's fire up the old iron sail. Again. Again  Yesterday do you know what? We could have sailed  

The wind was perfect - actually sailed in any direction.  Except for the one we wanted to go. The  

wind was perfect. I mean we could  have had - yeah - both sails fully out  

and it would have been great but... Anyway you never  know there might be something out there today  

We're going up past Symi again today, the  Greek island of Symi so we usually get a  

bit of wind there fingers crossed we get enough  wind we get the sails out . Yeah. Okay let's do it

Today's boat job is to stitch this back on. Oh yeah  that got damaged at Bozukkale when we were side  

on. Yeah and it was really... A bit bouncy. Yeah and it  got caught on the wooden jetty. So I'll fix that today  

Right so wind's that way  

presumably the ball's gonna be on this  side so I'm gonna bring her nose around

Looks like it's been attacked by a rabbid dog

Just about to round the tip of the  

light marker to the west of Bozukkale and then we'll start heading north  

and hopefully we should get this wind coming from  this direction and there should be enough of it

Kind of wouldn't know would you? You wouldn't know. So this kind of like  bobbly surface area is it's quite good  

so if you do get tears it's easy to fix  and you know nobody's going to go "Ew look at that, that's awful!"

Looks fabulous darling. Oh thank you! Yes. Oh the quirkiness  of the wind! This is the apparent wind  

it's at 4.9 knots. Now when we were heading along  the bottom of this bit of land here it showed us  

that the wind was coming from this direction  but now the the wind is apparently coming from  

behind and uh as you can see there's not a lot  of it because the wind direction indicator at  

the top of the mast is just bouncing from side  to side. The spot that we're hoping to anchor  

in is around about 45 minutes up there  pretty much aiming straight at it right now  

but this is the Bozburun area and it's  quite majestic in this morning light

There's the Admiral reading her book

We're actually going to be exploring quite a  lot of this area and um even behind the Bozburun 

peninsula that's ahead of us uh there's plenty  more anchorages that we're going to check out too  

we'll be in this area for quite some  time. This is our proposed anchorage  

that was going to be our plan B but there's  already a gullet tied up in there and uh  

if that doesn't work out then we're going to come  all the way around the bottom of this place, come  

back up here and apparently there's a bloke who  takes your line ashore for you there if you hand  

him a few Lira. Still no wind, apparent wind is  3.9 knots, speed over ground is 7.5, because we're  

in overdrive and we are doing 1900 rpm. Got to  make the most of that Gory folding prop overdrive  

feature when you can and today's conditions  are when you can moment.

Take the hook off

Okay so we're going to be dropping in six

so go to 30.

What are we over? Sand with a bit of weed

All right drop it.

Well we have arrived and uh we dropped anchor in six metres  I think it was? Yeah six metres sand and  

weedy patches but that's okay we found a  big sand patch and the anchor definitely found the sand patch

It just went boof! I went

yeah we're in! Yeah now we don't know yet why  this is not marked as an anchorage on the chart  

or in Navily or anywhere else that  we look. It doesn't seem to be a  

restricted area there's nothing on the  charts that says anything about that  

and um... My only thought is is that it's quite a big  bay and it's very exposed. It is. So if the weather's  

unfavourable you know you may get roll, you may get  lots of fetch, so that might be why. Maybe. We're not  

expecting a lot of wind it might pick up to um 12  to 15 knots later this afternoon then it's gonna  

drop off again for the evening so. We'll see. We'll  see, we'll see how it feels and we can always move  

from here quite easily into protected anchorage.  Yeah. But I like this. It's nice for now. This is nice  

Yeah. We did watch a 42 footer actually go through  that gap there so we know that that's deep enough  

for him it'll be deep enough for us as well should  we need to move from here if it gets too rolly  

uh we can just go through that gap there  around the corner and tie back ashore

Just coming up to one o'clock in the  afternoon and we've discovered why this  

as an anchorage. As we suspected the wind does pick  up and the openness of the bay produces a lot of  

fetch it's not uncomfortable but it's... Not nice!  It's not nice, no. The thing is there's only um  

15 knots of true wind but because of the distance  the wind and water is travelling it creates  

a bit of bounce so we're going  to go through that gap there and  

we're going to find a place that is  sheltered from the the wind generally  

There goes Kev and Ruth on Barbara Ann.  They're going through the gap and then once  

this big fellow's through the gap we can quite  happily bring our anchor up and follow along

Thirty

Good morning peeps it's Saturday morning  and we've just put the latest video out to  

our subscribers on YouTube, answered a few  early questions, got all that sorted out  

um right now we are anchored in a different spot  in the Bozburun area and behind me is the main  

Bozburun area and the mission today is to drop  our dinghy and we're going to tow our mate Kev's  

dinghy across to the harbour at Bozburun  because he's got a problem with his outboard

engine and uh there's a guy there who's going to  hopefully fix it for him so uh a little bit of a  

tow and while we're over there we're going to go  to Osman's Place. We were there when we first  

came into Turkey and checked into Turkey in Bozburun in 2018 and we just recall that the full English  

breakfast was so good so while they're over there  we might as well have a full English breakfast  

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