In this episode of Sailing A B Sea we begin our 2019 summer sailing by visiting some stunning Turkish anchorages as we head west and north along the Turkish ...

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Okay alright well we'll scope it out

when we get there, standing by on 7-2

Well this is it.

We are officially beginning the next

step of our journey. A little short hop

here now, about four hours

As usual when you want to go somewhere

on a particular day there's absolutely

no wind. It's like a mill pond out here at

the moment so of course we are motoring

but a little bit little bit concerned

about this anchorage that we're going to

it's just a little bay next to the

harbour at Kalkan and a lot of people

who've been there said that the holding

is not that good and you really need to

take a line ashore because it might be

like a mill pond but at night the

katabatic wind will come down the side

of the mountain and you will drag, so

that's going to be interesting because

we've got the dinghy up but luckily our

buddy boat Jim who's with us he's towing

his dinghy so hopefully he'll be nice

and friendly and he'll help us get our line

ashore

Yeah hopefully we've got a long enough

line. I think there's one in that locker

down under the seat. Okay. Yep.

We're just

coming into our anchorage near Kalkan

We've got 15 knots of wind bang on the nose

Jim's gone ahead he's just dropping his

anchor and then once he's settled in we'll

go and find our little spot.

Well we're

fairly confident that the Mantus is in.

Apparently on the western side of this

little bay it is sand and weed and if

that is the case then that's what the

Mantus loves best so she's gone in and

we've got 50 meters of chain out, we're happy.

Yeah. It was a good guess cuz I had

to leave enough to put the snubber on

afterwards. I think there's about that much chain left, so we've got as much chain out as we

possibly can so should be alright. Should

be right. Anchor alarm of course tonight

once it gets dark but for now, it's

good. It's a nice little bay. You know what time it is now

don't you? Beer o'clock

Saturday morning and

this is what we've woken up to in our

anchorage. We didn't get any katabatic

winds coming down the hillside last

night so the anchor alarm didn't go off

which is good and all in all we found

the holding on the west side of this

anchorage to be pretty good once our

Mantus anchor had set in. Today we've got an

approximately five to six hour trip

further north. It looks like we might get

some wind but then again all the wind

prediction web sites are showing

different things so the truth is what

you'll find when you get out there. We're

believing you're here in a couple of

hours of about nine o'clock so I've got to

go down below and start promoting

today's YouTube video that went out and

by the time we get to our anchorage or

mooring it might be tonight this should

be lots of comments that we can spend

some time replying to maybe it could be

one of your comments!

Just looking at the chart

you can see this black boat that

is us and behind us is our buddy boat

Jim and if we range out to 12 miles so

this is a six mile mark and we're

currently doing six knots so

theoretically we should get to where

we're going in about an

hour but we're actually going to this

first anchorage here and I can zoom in

on that for you so as soon as we're

approaching this anchorage from this

direction here we're going to just nip

around the side of this island we don't

want to go through there - you can get a

yacht through there but for the sake of

what, an extra four minutes and things

might go wrong in shallow water, forget

it. Take the extra four minutes go around

the rock and we're going to anchor up

here. Actually we're going to take a

mooring ball here because there's a

little restaurant there, so just there is

a very small jetty and the guy who owns

the restaurant and the jetty has got a

lot of mooring balls here. You can anchor

here you have to take a line ashore and

we don't want to do that

so we're going to grab one of those

mooring balls

We are arriving at our destination for

today and we're probably going to be

here for a couple of nights it's

Karacaoren and we're just going

around this tiny little island here

Well that was fairly straightforward. The

guy who owns the mooring field met us

on his little tinny, handed Aannsha the

actual mooring ball, just put a line through

it through both fairleads, tied it off on the cleats

Easy. Easy as. Yeah.

This is a gorgeous little spot and that looks like

a mooring ball that we can trust

It's pretty as, isn't it? It is gorgeous and that's the

restaurant over there for beer and wines

And maybe a meal. And meals

Okay let's put this boat to bed.

Okay Cap'n

Well we're all dressed up in our finery

Boat finery. Cuz we're dining out tonight over there

at that wonderful little restaurant

We've got John (Can) which is a strange name

for a Turkish bloke but John who owns

the restaurant coming out to pick us up

in his dinghy

I think our taxi's coming to get us now.

Sweet.

Okay you're going to have to climb down and climb on.

Yep. Iyi akshamlar.

Glad to see you've got your safety shoes

on there Alex

He's an Aussie at heart isn't he?

Well we've demolished our starters which

was a wonderful salad and some very

perfectly cooked chips with this amazing

piece of bread. This is just gorgeous and now

we're on to our mains and it looks a pretty

good stuff - smells divine. Two lamb casseroles.

Sizzling! Two lamb meatballs YUM, enjoy!

The following morning we jumped in our

dinghy and headed off to explore the

small island with a few ruins on it.

Wow and not just a simple straight walled

square box dwelling there's a very

definite curved wall here and arched

windows and strangely some sort of

enclosed courtyard here in front of this

window

maybe they kept animals in there at

night to keep them safe.

Now we're on the

western end of the island and quite

obviously that's where we're moored

we're they boat on the far left here. If

you are coming from out there you can

cut through here there is a good amount

of depth. Personally we didn't want to

try it we thought the extra four minutes

going around the island would give us

less chance of any concerns but a

beautiful spot to drop anchor or moor up

Guess where we're going Baz? Somewhere

else. Kucuk Kargi Koyu. I love it

when you speak like that!

It's Monday afternoon just after one

o'clock and we've had two nights here on

the mooring at this wonderful little

restaurant. We've been waiting for the

wind to pick up that's why we're leaving

so late but it's just not going to

happen that it's gonna be another day of

motoring I think. But this time we're

only going about 12 or 13 miles up the

coast for our next overnight anchorage

which I believe again we can anchor

there in about 5 to 10 metres of water

and the holding should be pretty

good. Because we're not looking forward

to the tying back got to back to the land

yeah cuz that means somebody has to swim and

kind of tie things off, tie things off

yeah without the boat swinging around too

much you know but we'll get there!

Yeah. But tonight we don't have to do

that, we just have to anchor. Well Jim

Furness has just started up his engine

so we better start ours up and get

the cameras rolling

Okay! It's gonna be fun. Yep!

Getting into early afternoon but finally

we've got a little bit of wind enough

wind to bring the headsail out, not

as if she's really shifting us along, we gained an extra

0.7 of a knot with the headsail and

we're nearly at our destination so I

can't be bothered bringing the mainsail

out, it's as simple as that

And you have a carrot in your hand

because? Because I've just made some dip

and I'm going to cut this up to dip into the dip. Aha! Carrot dip!

Well we've arrived

here in I can't pronounce it but Aannsha can. It's hang on let me, let me

think

oh it's Kucuk Kargi Koyu. Kucuk

Kargi Koyu. Yep. There you go.

Great little Anchorage the water's

not clean water so obviously there's a

lot of mud in this bay. We're in we

dropped anchor in seven metres we're in

five metres now with 35 metres out and

we're staying here for one night only. Great little

spot. The wind is not predicted to pick

up. If it does pick up who will be coming

from the entrance there so it will push us -

so we're technically on a lee shore

but we will set an anchor alarm lap ... an

anchor alarm app this evening so there

shouldn't be any problems. That Mantus is

dug in first time. I tell you what what, I think that

was our best anchoring ever. Do you, even though - Yeah -

even there my little foot trembled

on the thing and then I had to push it

out but I mean... No we came in like pros

sussed out the depth, turned the boat around, on a dime, faced into the wind

dropped it

in perfect things, let out the right

amount brought, her to a halt, tested it

put her to bed. He's very pleased with himself.

I am chuffed I am! Good, I'm glad you are!

I'm gonna go make some hum...

No, I've made hummus I'm gonna make guacamole now

I'll have to get another carrot. You will. See ya. Bye.

Okay drop it let me know

when ten's out.

Join us next week on

Sailing A B Sea as we attempt our first line

ashore anchoring in Buyuk Kaga Koyu. If

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