In this episode of Sailing A B Sea after a bad night with only 2 hours sleep we finally have a good day sailing 9 hours to Söğüt on Turkey's Bozburun peninsula.

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The pontoon is low enough, we're going to go on with the dinghy up.

You grab the lazy line, you walk it forward. Yeah tie it onto the cleat. You

pull it off until the big one comes up. Yeah.

I'm Barry, I'm Aannsha, this is the continuing  journey of Sailing A B Sea. A 6:15 departure from  

what was an absolute horrendous night's  sleep in fact couldn't even call it sleep. Noisy 

The wind actually dropped, the bay flattened  out there was no rolly rolly but the cacophony  

of music from the different bars and they were all  playing different types of music, different beats. Nothing matched.

It was a horrendous noise. I think because the wind was blowing  a lot of the sound towards us as well  

it just seemed like it was right next door. Yeah  so the only way to escape that would be to go  

ashore and sit in one particular bar where you  can hear one particular piece of music until  

they decide they've had enough they close. Then  at three o'clock my first mosquito woke me up  

then at four o'clock somebody decided they  were going to have a big fight on shore  

which set off all the dogs all along the shore.  I heard the dogs okay. Then I went back to bed  

and then my next mosquito came to me and then  just as I heard Aannsha rummaging around in  

the princess suite and next mosquito  came to me and I went that's it I'm getting up, we're going.

So 10 hours ahead of us today. So I think we'll probably take it in turns  

to again sleep again, you know once Ray's on and you know we're  

sort of on our way because it's just a straight  line really yeah but look I think when it's  

not the height of the season I think it would be  a nice little bay to visit and I wouldn't mind  

if we did stop there again just getting off  and having a look because it's quite pretty  

Yeah it seems to have a lot of stuff on shore yeah.  And I think um you know if you've got earplugs  

that'll do the job, wouldn't do the job with the  mosquitoes, certainly do the job with the sound  

Somebody else has got an early  morning rising attitude as well

and there's even a couple of guys  out here with a cockswain rowing

I'm going to put the kettle on. I'm turning the gas on  so I can make a cup of tea. We always turn our gas  

off after we've used it. Do you? Put it  in the comments below. This big island  

in front of us is the Greek island of Kos and  basically when we get out of the bay we've got to  

turn left and then do a dog leg right and  head down between Kos and mainland Turkey

Once again we've dutifully stayed just inside  Turkish waters and it's a good thing we did  

because uh two Greek coast guard vessels came out  and uh pretty much headed in our general direction  

Well it looked like they crossed across the line.  It did because they actually came across our stern  

and we're off our port quarter so  technically from what this chart says  

I think they were in Turkish waters. So  there's a rib and kind of like a big power  

cruiser boat and the rib is now stationed exactly  on the uh the point here. Let me uh come out again  

The rib is now sitting right on that point  there for anyone who's gonna cut corners  

It seems to be a thing that they do. So good  job captain for deciding to do the right thing  

Yeah it's a pain in a bum because basically um you  know it adds an extra 45 minutes to our journey  

Which is long enough

Yeah which is long enough anyway. So now I can  do uh 10 degrees. Meanwhile the wind that we've  

been having has been nothing, it's been about two  

but I see it's picking up a bit so  that's hopeful. Just to make note, we're

coming down the border here and  basically heading towards there  

when we actually want to go around this corner  here. I'm still yet to see a red line in the sea

yeah and dolphins with passports

I wonder what language they speak

Dolphin

Yeah! There's the very familiar lighthouse  at Knidos and uh just through this low  

part in the hillside here we can see  several masts in the Knidos anchorage  

Looks pretty busy and that's what  you'd expect at this time of year

I've just extended the range out to 24 nautical  miles so that's uh 6, 12, 18, 24, this ring here  

so it's at least four hours before we get to  the northern tip of Simi. Also got uh a vessel  

approaching at 28 knots! Can't wait to see what  it is doing that sort of speed. I've looked at  

the the finer details of it and I can't see that  it says anything about it being a passenger ship

so Dodecanese Pride, high speed something or other,  not defined anyway, we'll find out in five minutes  

as it passes within half a nautical  mile of us. Yeah 28 knots pretty darn fast

Got a bit of sail on sail  action going on there captain  

Yeah the wind is funny and fickle,  sometimes it's up to 30 knots, sometimes

it's down to 12, 15

so I've got a little bit of sail out. Not all of it. And what are we getting?

Right now we're doing 8.6 knots. Woo hoo!

Which is good because it's a long journey today and it might shave a bit off.

I think that's enough of a lean. I think that's quite enough, yes. Those laptops need to go away.

Our maximum hull speed is  9 knots and we're doing 8.9. Woo hoo!

Back down to 7.9 now but  the wind's not constant it's  

sort of gusting and then dropping but  you know, just nice to get them out

Our little Aussie flag's looking a bit worse for  wear. We'll change that over winter

The headsail was flogging so we furled it in and  we're going on a slightly reefed main which is  

helping still but we can point closer into  the wind so that's the main thing with this

Okay well the wind shifted again  so the headsail's come out again

and uh yeah it feels like we've got a bit  more speed let's have a look. Woo! Giving us

an extra knot er knot and a bit. We're gonna cut a corner through Greece

everybody else is. Yeah it's weird we've seen  several um big power cruisers transiting  

in both directions across this Greek  territorial waters so we figured that  

maybe it's just a local thing that people do here  uh it's certainly going to save some time instead  

of us having to go around the outside and if we  do get approached we'll just say well look you  

know we're sailing, we're taking advantage  of the wind and this is the best best tack  

we've got ...And we thought we had right of passage ... And we thought we had right of passage as well

Coz we're transiting yeah. So

okay let's see how we go!

Stop talking to me

Captain go forward. I can't go forward, it's a Gory folding prop!

More, more, more, more

Fix, fix, fix!

That is maximum speed because it's a Gory folding prop.

If you go forward because it won't stop

Welcome. Welcome Madam. Tesekkurler

That was a bit hairy getting in. It's um it's not  a constant wind, it's a gusting wind and just as we  

got to the last minute the wind said Hello! Hello  here's 26 knots for you right on the side. Yes so  

anyway the two lovely guys were really really  helpful. So we're in yeah um we kept the  

dinghy up on the davits and we found a plank  of wood that we've tied to the boat so we're gonna  

use that as our drawbridge. Okay so uh things to do  now: we've got to uh find a place to buy beer and  

buy more fizzy water and some basic provisions  because we're nearly down to our last stuff  

uh I've got an edit a video and get that out and up  and then - because I did mine - we've got to go  

to the restaurant and enjoy dinner and that's  going to be very enjoyable after a nice long hot  

shower. It certainly is yes and they also provide electricity  and water. Free of charge. Yes which is very kind  

So uh yeah it's been a nine hour  day. Oh so this where we're at is it Keçi Bükü

and that is at Söğüt.

So yeah it's the uh the restaurant, you see the  big sign for the restaurant at the end of the bay  

right at literally at the head of the bay and you  can't miss it. So. Crack on with it I mean I was

you know it sounds like I'm not doing anything at  all but I was working till 11 o'clock last night  

getting the edit done, finally sort of did my  little bit and rendered it this morning just  

before it started to get choppy so that was  good. Yeah. And uh you know Baz is gonna do  

it now even though he probably wants to just stop  and chill don't you? I'd love a beer and I'd love  

to have sleep because I think it was like two  and a half hours sleep last night but hey you  

know them things that happen and you just get on  with it. You sleep when you're dead. Yeah okay. When  

you eat at the restaurant here you can sit on the  end of the jetty if you like or you can actually  

go inside to the restaurant itself and because  the wind is still gusting we're going inside

Another thing to watch out for in  the summer - here's a fresh water leak  

and what are the hornets doing? They're  getting some fresh water. Don't stand on them

My kind of tree.

Rosemary.

Let me just say, cheers.  They are lovely people here aren't they? Very

friendly, very helpful, very welcoming. Yeah. And I must say, now that the wind is  

calming down it's turning into a whole different  experience. Yeah um the gusts here when we tried to  

when we did um moor, were just amazing, now  it's okay we've we've managed to re-position  

our lines so we're not you know too snug against  our neighbour and uh I think things are going to  

calm down even more tonight once the uh once the  wind gusts drop. Yeah. This is a great little spot. It's lovely.

Super protected, there's definitely not going to be  any rolly rolly in here that's for sure. No. So a  

lovely little spot. Aannsha went out earlier this  afternoon to check out what what is roughly  

around. There's a little market that's attached to  a hotel but then I saw just up the road sort of  

you know five minutes walk, there's  a market kind of proper with with  

basic things but the lady spoke really good  English because I was still trying to speak  

Turkish and she did better at English so we, no we got on... So it was really yeah it was it was a good  

experience so yes so we're going to have a lovely  evening. I think I'm speaking slowly because I'm so  

tired. I only had about two hours sleep last night too. Absolutely shattered, brain dead um you know two  

hours sleep, nine hour sail, uh final edit of the  video and uh yeah we're going to get our meze 

choices pretty soon and then we both  ordered swordfish steaks for our main  

and we'll finish this bottle of wine, head back to  the boat and just crash I think. Yeah. We've made a  

change of plan, uh we were going to do a 10-hour  run to Karacaoren tomorrow but Aannshe's done  

some calculations on fuel and hours and fuel per  hour. Conservatively we haven't quite got enough to make it all  

the way to Kas. We have if we use our spare 40  litres on the side decks. But we don't want to get into  

a situation where we use them and then we  don't have anything at all. So we're actually  

going to spend uh tomorrow night in Marmaras so  it's only going to be a five or six hour trip  

to there tomorrow depending on the wind. Well  we'll go into the marina first fuel up yeah and  

then we can leave because if we thought today's  nine hours was a long day, Marmaris to Kas is... 13

hours. So we're going to have a sort of easy  day tomorrow because it's only six hours so  

even if we leave at midday here tomorrow we will  still get there by six . Which is plenty of light  

for us to go into a known anchorage. That means we  can have a nice chill easy day and then uh  

start early again. Yeah. Six. Four. Four. Yeah four  why not? Well four (I'm kidding) four to four is twelve  

and that's five yeah given wind and weather so... I mean we're going into Kas with the marineros so you  

know we know exactly where we're going. Yeah.  But yeah four o'clock is fine. Yeah. We'll  

be all bright-eyed and bushy tailed by then.  Oh yes. Yeah. But I tell you what, the showers here  

really good, hot water, lots of water.  Yep. Um yeah it's really well set up  

It's quite charming actually because you've  got, you know nestled in the mountains and  

little goats - goatses bleeting in the  background. Cheers my love. Here's to this place. Yes

Just for the record the swordfish is cooked to  perfection and the whole platter is 130 lira  

uh on the screen right now you can see the  exchange rate to the Aussie dollar for that 

That was absolutely delicious yeah and the service  here they keep asking if there's anything they can  

do for us and they're lovely people. Yeah I highly recommend  this place. Yes absolutely. Put it on your list. Yes

Iyi akşamlar (good evening). Iyi akşamlar