In this episode of Sailing A B Sea it's a first for Baz as he is up the mast replacing the missing wind cups from the wind speed indicator. While Aannsha get...

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Well on this sunny Friday morning I'm

just waiting for Mike to come around

from the marina with his bosons chair

because today it's a first for me

I'm going up the mast because these

things are missing from the top of the mast.

These are the wind cups on the wind

speed indicator that should be up there

but they're not - don't know where they

went

probably in the drink so we're gonna fit

some new ones today. So we're gonna use

two lines to go the mast, always use two

lines because one is a safety line. The

only options we've got here on A B Sea we

have a spare halyard at the side of the

mast which is a spinnaker halyard and

the other one we're using is the topping

lift off the end of the boom so the boom

now looks like that supported by the

kicker or as some people like to say the

boom bang .

So it's nice to have Mike back

on board giving us a hand and showing us

what to do with his millions of years

worth of experience

You're getting your workout today Mike aren't you? Oh yeah.

That's as far as she'll go. Can you reach it?

Yeah. I'll give it a go.

They're on

Oh! The chair's a lot more comfy.

Oh that !@#$% harness

Excuse my French.

Going up was fairly okay. The

coming down bit's a bit scary

Really? Yeah. I thought it'd be the other way around

No no. Why? Because you've just got to

trust that you're coming down at the right

speed. Right. It's really weird

Yeah they click the cups clipped into

place mm-hmm the Windex which tells us

where the wind is coming from and where we can sail and where we can't

is slightly off-centre but it's held on

with a nut and bolt. Right. Yeah you

didn't want to fiddle around. No. No fair enough. okay

boom's coming up.

And what are you up to today?

Oh well I I'm a lucky girl I've

been asked to make three pendants like

this it's a shell and I've made a little

net basket out of sterling silver wire and with a little piece of abalone

to make into a pendant so this is the

first of three more that I'm gonna make

so I'm in my happy space.

While Baz

is in town putting some more data on his

dongle I'll show you what I've been

doing to make A B Sea look more like a home

I've bought four vintage rugs - three from

Turkey and one from Persia and they are

absolutely beautiful. I got them from Alpaslan who has a beautiful shop in Kas

marina called Yuruk. He doesn't just have

rugs there he has jewellery, silver

cushions, oh silk, you know hand

embroidered silks - absolutely beautiful

stuff there and while I was there I also

saw three pieces of shibori indigo dyed

hand woven cotton lengths of material and

I just couldn't resist them because

they're dark navy with white patterns

and they go with the rest of the

colouring of the decor of A B Sea so I'm

in the process of making three cushions

out of those and I'll show you how I'm

putting them together right now if

you're interested. So this is the first

stage of the cushion making process

Basically it's a sort of long thin

oblong piece of material and I've just

folded it right side in with a little

lip over and I'm just hand stitching

just up the two sides and I'll leave

this open obviously to get the stuffing

in. When I turn it the right way out this

is the second piece of material

isn't it beautiful? So you have a little

pillow and the little lip actually sits

on the outside and I'll stuff it with

pre-loved stuffing that

from some old cushions that were on the

boat and I've got some little buttons

and I'm going to fix it like that and

then what you get is a cushion like that

isn't that gorgeous? I actually hand

stitched that down as well

And here they are, the three cushions all

finished. Very pleased.

With matching accessories. It matches doesn't it? Matching accessories thanks to Baz.

I don't think you can stay in

one place for five months and not fall a

little bit in love with it. Yeah. We're

talking about Kas. In particular Kas

town. That's where we over-wintered for

the winter of 2018-19 and we stayed in

the harbour where we got a really good

deal sorted to us by Smiley from

Smiley's restaurant. Our thoughts after

leaving Kas?

Well I feel as if Kas has become my

Turkish home. Yeah I'd agree with that

yeah. Pretty much everything about it

the people the - it's very picturesque

it's a lovely blend of quaint,

old, ancient and you know newer builds isn't it?

Yeah it is a great little place. If you

are considering coming to Turkey and you

are thinking of over-wintering in Turkey it

is a super place to do it

Kas itself gives you two options: you

can stay in the old harbour like we did

which was a very reasonable price of 30

Turkish lira a day, water and electricity is

extra but it's still very very cheap. If

you prefer marinas then we can highly

recommend Kas marina. Yes Setur Marina. It is a

beautiful marina, the location is

stunning, the marina itself is - the berths

are wide yeah it's really easy to get into.

The fairways are massively wide

yeah you're not scrunched up against your

neighbours at all are you?

In comparison to some other

marinas we've seen that one is

also a gem. So if marinas are your thing

Kas marina definitely and the

Marineros they're great. Brilliant. Yeah I

mean superb in what their what their job

is but they're also very personable as

well, in fact everybody game is. Well that's the

other thing as well erm Kas, the people,

everyone we've met was friendly

welcoming helpful. I can't speak highly

enough of the gulet captains who were

in the Kas Harbour. Those guys know their

stuff, they've been doing it for years

they know the weather they know the

water and if they give you some advice

follow it. Or if you need any advice just

ask they're all willing to help out and

share their knowledge. Yeah they looked

out for us as well didnt they? They did yeah so

that was really good and and there's a

good variety of shops there, good variety

of supermarkets you know just on the

practical side. Lots of little

eateries and cafes

Yeah in the wintertime there's

definitely everything you need to get

work done in upon your boat keep

yourself entertained and sustained,

everything that you need is

still open. A lot of workshops in town

where you can get work done stainless

steel work manufacturing work servicing

of your engines

outboard or inboard. There's also a great

hardware store in town which has pretty

much everything yeah, at a heck of a

lot cheaper prices then you would find

in marine chandlers. Yep although there

is a chandlery at the marina as well so

you know if you can't find what you want you can go there.

And generally if they don't have it in

stock they'll order it in and it's there

in two days. And you know if you want to

hire a car for a week like we did there

are so many places that are within say an

hour or two hours drive that are really

worth going to see because Kas is on

the Lycian way, yeah, and so if you're

into you know ruins and old stuff and

history and ancient history, the

birthplace of democracy yeah yeah and

the birthplace of Father Christmas. So

we can't speak highly enough of Kas, the

place, the people, everything. And you

couldn't talk of Kas without talking of

Smiley's could you? No. He's brilliant. Anything

you want sorted out in in Kas or the

surrounding areas

talk to Smiley, he'll point you in the

right direction. He's in his

restaurant Smiley's at the Harbour. So

really that concludes our time in Kas. We have to move on, we have places to go and

see this summer. We are going to be

heading up the Turkish coast as far as

Kuşadası? Kuşadası. Then we we'll be

checking out of Turkey there and heading

over to Samos the Greek island and

checking into Greece. It's gonna be a fun

summer. Yeah it is and we're glad to have

you guys along with us. It's been awesome

knowing that you've been with us all

along and we look forward to bringing

you along with us on the next leg of our journey.

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