In this episode of Sailing A B Sea we continue north west along the Turkish coast, departing Kocabahçe Koyu and make a short hop to anchor at Kuruca Bükü where we discover the chart depths are wrong again. Then we revisit the south anchorage at Datça.

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All right so it's not there that's a bush  

According to google maps it's there. Of course  it is, it's cloaked. All right let's go this way  

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

is on the screen right now and it is a  very popular place for people to come to  

I'm not sure whether you're going to need  reservations if you want to take your  

boat onto the restaurant pontoon and tie off  there but when we came in yesterday the pontoon was  

absolutely full, somebody's just left and another  person's already coming in. The restaurant jetty  

is one option and another option is to  take a mooring ball like we did. A guy from  

the restaurant will come out in his tinny and  help you get that line onto your forward cleat  

and more than likely he'll also give you a  line sure to put on your aft cleat so your boat  

stays in one position throughout other options  here as you can see if you've got enough chain  

and you can handle the depth I think the minimum  depth here is about 12 metres just drop your chain  

take a line ashore as this gullet has done and  also just beyond this boat here there's plenty of  

places to take a line ashore as well. Food in the  restaurant is quite good and reasonably priced  

Right now though it's time for us to prep the boat  ready for leaving. We've only got a short distance  

to go today just over an hour and we're going  to get our dinghy back up onto the davits and  

head over there. Hopefully it's an anchorage  where we can drop anchor and swing freely  

That's what all the signs say. We'll  see how that pans out when we get there

Right

So this is our planned anchorage. It  gets down to around about six to ten metres  

in here and it looks big enough to take quite  a few yachts at anchor and swinging freely  

and it's been literally an hour from where we  were previously and as you can see we're at  

the three mile marker here and that's our three  miles so at six knots it's going to be half an  

hour before we can really get a good visual on  how busy or not it is in there. We can see four  

yachts coming out plus a catamaran coming out so  if they're leaving that means more space for us!

So the chart says 6.4 metres but  my depth sounder says 20 metres  

so I'm gonna go around over there

See that weed patch? Gonna bring it to there  and then you can drop it just before that

Well we're in five metres so go to uh go to  20 to start with and we'll see how it feels

All right so just let out  another five and then snub it

Kuruca Buku. Kuruca Buku.

Nice little spot. Charts are inaccurate once again  um they said oh six to four metres when we were  

actually still in 22 metres but unfortunately as  we were coming around I saw this kind of shallow  

area and I thought well look we'll stick the nose  in we'll let the depth down and tell us what depth  

it is and we finally settled in five metres over  sand. There are some weedy patches but um the sand  

is pretty good and I think the anchor went in  quick smart. Yeah and fortunately someone had just  

left this spot - yes - so it's good distance between  the other two boats. Yeah it's great. Yeah it's nice  

looking forward to exploring it actually. Yeah  we're going to stay here for two nights because  

Saturday we want to be in Datca which is just an  hour to the west of here so not far to go to there  

but right now we're going to enjoy this place and  we'll probably put the dinghy down and go ashore  

and have a lookie-see for ourselves yes. And show it  to you as well. Oh yeah if you want to come with us you can!

There's a few rocks. Rocks!

Lines, lines everywhere

We've arrived

Well, what we thought from offshore was kind  of like a town it turns out it's actually  

a huge campsite. The campsite sort of like  sprawls across both of the big bays here  

and there are apparently two Migros supermarkets  and we're trying to find the second one. We've seen  

the first one but we're trying to find the  second one. I don't know why, we thought it  

was actually going to be in town but um  here's an area for where they have a um  

bazaar. I don't know what day it happens but  everything looks very closed now. Yes I'm just having a look to see... And  

so we're wandering through this  campsite it's got a mix of um  

places where you put your caravan, they do a  lot of storage of people's boats big and small  

There's also places that you can rent that are  kind of uh apartments in two and three story... Hang on we've walked past it!

...apartment blocks and uh also um there's places  where you can just rock up and pitch your tent  

So it's it's quite amazing how big  this place is. Aannsha's got a uh

It's there

All right so it's not there that's a bush. According to Google  maps it's there. Of course it is, it's cloaked  that

All right let's go this way

Lots of market stalls all covered up.I guess  for when the market day is. It seems bizarre  

that they just leave all their merchandise here.  Well because people are pretty trustworthy in  

Turkey aren't they? They are yeah. Okay down there we can  see the water and we know there's a kind of like  

a walkway or pathway that goes all the way along  so we'll take that until we see the supermarket

All right let out another five and snub it

Looks so close isn't it? Yeah.

Well maybe when the wind's blowing us that way we'll go a bit closer but not much.

Well the anchor chain's fully out. Yeah.

Is it just me or is this water clearer than it was last time? It's very clear. Look at that it's a beauty!

New little fenders look, aww.

An interesting perspective into  Datca's harbour uh south anchorage  

that's the isolated danger we came past and I believe that's the coast guard out there. That  

is the island of Symi, Greek island and that  is the marina that they've been constructing  

since we first came here in 2018. And here is the  entrance. When you're in a yacht and you're coming  

in here it looks quite small and confined but  actually it's massive. That's A B Sea parked over there  

that's Kev's buddy boat Barbara Ann. And that's  the only other boat at anchor. Around this  

corner here is the town quay and a lot of gulets  and big power cruisers are all tied up there  

I think we got ourselves a nice  little spot there tucked in  

Let's go and explore some more of Datca. And  just on one side of the harbour is the theatre  

Teyatro. I'm gonna see if we can get in there and  have a look-see. The path has turned into a car  

park but the gardens are nicely done out. Well  sadly access to the theatre, the little kind of  

stepped amphitheatre kind of thing is not allowed  because they're doing renovations at the moment so  

taking this opportunity to come and have a look  at the harbour from a different perspective

Just over there we can see the mast of A B Sea. Hello!

Wow I guess that uh if you  want fresh fish then this... Merhaba

I guess if you want fresh fish in  Datca then this is the place to come  

It's right on the quayside and right next  to where all the fishermen park their boats  

It doesn't get much fresher than this

So it'll be good to see what Datca is like now it's it's  fully open. Obviously everyone's still walking  

around in masks but pretty much everything  should be open for business. Yeah last couple  

of times we've been in lockdown and when we were  here two years ago it was the end of the season  

so there were places closed as well weren't there? Yeah. So  yeah looking forward to it actually

Look at the size of this fella!

We've got our chickens now we're all good to  go. You can't visit Datca and not come to  

the chicken shop and buy a whole roast chicken  with a big sort of roast onion and a big roast  

potato. And we've got roast uh chillis I think  this time. Yeah. Long thin - ch-lli peppers - to mild ones yeah  

35 lira each. Bargain I say. They're massive. Bargain and we got two  

On the way back to the boat we got  sidetracked into the 48R bar and bistro

[Aannsha mimes] He got sidetracked! LOL

Did you see that? Listen, if she does that behind my back again, you've gotta shout "Behind you! Behind you!"

So I can know

Anyway we're enjoying the view  and just uh chilling. And look at this  

With my white wine, I got some cheese and apples. Bonus. I got nuts

Well we've got all of our stuff

now we're going home  

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