In this episode of Sailing A B Sea Baz goes off buying boat bits in Bodrum Turkey, while Aannsha stays home to finished editing a new video. Both equally important jobs, but who has the most fun?

Buying boat bits in Bodrum involves a taxi ride and some very kind help from a Turkish stranger.

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Behind me is the small harbour of Knidos

We stuck our nose in there

It is so so busy so we've

dropped anchor here

outside of Knidos but unfortunately it's

very very rolly. We're going to move on

to Datça

meanwhile birthday girl Aannsha is

having a swim

off the back of the boat

This morning we leave this little bay

and we head

a little bit further east

into the huge bay

that Bodrum resides in and at Bodrum

we've got a bit of a plan. Aannsha's

going to stay

on board while I go ashore and grab a

taxi and head to the

big Bodrum boat porn

shop. We've got a list as long as my arm

are things that I want to try and pick

up, hopefully they should have a lot of

it because

people have said they've got tons of

stuff there. So it's just a few hours to

Bodrum

We are not going to stay there because

there's a big blow coming in from the

north

with predicted gusts up to 37 knots

and we're going to try and get a

bit further east

where it's not so bad

So that's the plan for today

Yeah

Better get that engine fired. Okay

Well I've just got back from a very

interesting time

ashore at ... Do my ears look funny

with this mask on?

... ashore at Bodrum and I went to

this place, it is a kind of a mix between

a superstore

for boat bits and a bunnings warehouse

in Australia

So let me just get myself together here

and show you what we bought. We have

eight fenders on board and one of them

is well useless because

it's a pancake so I

bought another one to replace it

obviously we need to get it inflated

and maybe we can get it done in Marmaris

if we go there

if not, Kaş. We also bought eight

of these which are fender socks

I, I, you know I splashed out a bit um

because these are good quality and uh

they're gonna last a long time and so

these fender socks go on the fenders

and stop the fenders getting damaged

from uv light

and also protect the side of the boat so

I got eight of those for our eight fenders

Oh I got this which is

basically a foam with a sticky back on

it and

I'm gonna cut this to required size

and replace the seals of the fridge

because even though we we did a little

bit of that

Sikaflex around the outside of the

fridge where it was

definitely leaking uh cold air it's

still

coming on in the night time a bit too

much so I'm going to replace the

the rubber and I think this is the right

size, so that's that

This beast here was

almost pretty much half

of the budget we spent

This is a ArgoFet battery isolator

because when we got our batteries and

alternator tested

in theD-marin marina and Didim the

guy said look you know

your your thing is broken and it is an

old diode battery

separator. I've since learned

on YouTube that

the diode battery separator

is kind of like ... you earn a hundred

dollars at your job

and then there's a middleman who says

tell you what I'm gonna put

your earnings into

three bank accounts because we've got

three battery banks

but I'm going to take 70 percent of

your earnings

and distribute the remaining 30%

equally to your batteries. This guy here

distributes 99% of the power from the

alternator to

the batteries equally, so that's going to

be a huge

improvement on our power production

management system

Expensive bit of kit but well worth it.

I also

bought one of these which basically

allows you to take off your oil filters

and fuel filters

without stabbing them with a screwdriver

and getting oil everywhere

This is a controllable filter

remover

which is great because it's just so

messy removing filters

Bought another anode for the keel uh

it's always good to have one, I mean the

keel anode is in

100% perfect condition

but I just like to keep

spares on board

This turned out to be a

bit of a disappointment

this is an led light globe to

replace the ones

in the heads and there are two

in each head

in the light fitting but they only had

one on the shelf, I wanted four

obviously so I'm going to put that in

and see what it looks like

compared to the incandescent light globe

So somewhere along the line I'll be

buying another three of those

Bought a load of these

because the clips on our bimini

are sun damaged - one failed and so I

figured well they're all the same age

we might as well replace them all so

there's one two three four on the bimini

and there's two here on the spray hood

so we're going to replace

all of those with these brand new ones

so there's that

Bought a heap of these as well, this is

the biggest one they had in stock

and there was this amazing Turkish

guy

who had a t-shirt on that looked similar

to the t-shirt that the guys at work at

the store had on

so I said excuse me do you work here

he said no

but I kind of live here so I can help

you find things

and I'm not sure if he knew what he was

taking on because

my list of things to buy

was very very long

but he was ever so

helpful, he knew where

everything was and he said

what I can do is

... because I don't need this little bit

here, I can cut that off

and then get a heat source on that and

bend the hook out to

make it a bit bigger

to match the needs

that I have with that

Oh yeah I also bought

some little ones as well

So that was my trip

to the boat porn shop in Bodrum and

today is my day for putting these things

into place where they're needed

So there's swimmers right at the shore

Okay drop it

Go to 30

No, go to 40

Forty

Halfway to the water line

Feed it to the water line. Okay

Is it okay?

Not sure

D'you want me to dive it?

Ooh that's nice, oh yeah

I'm very happy to change out these

incandescent for LED

Power saving and a much nicer kind of

light as well, definitely going to be

buying more of those

Side by side you can certainly see that

they are two very different

kind of strap... tighteners but it will

do the job

the broken bit of the plastic here has

gone

so one two three holes one two three

holes and then the other bit comes

through here

through there and we just

tighten it off. So gonna replace all of

those now

on the bimini and the spray hood

That's the first couple of buckles in place

and you know they're quite easy to

attach and nice and easy to close

so I've done both of these on the back

end of the bimini

but I've got to say I'm quite

disappointed in the the quality of these

buckles, I did buy two extra which is

quite fortunate because two of them have

already broken

you can see the the hinge or the pin

there, it's broken off on

that side, it's not in

that hole

but it's stuck in that hole so

yeah the build quality is

leaving a lot to be desired

A couple of

other things we got from the boat pawn

shop were these new drinks holders the

The ones we had originally were from the

Ark and I bought

an extra big shackle there to get that

pulley up

above the arm of the outboard engine

Well that's the first of our fender

socks

put on and it's a very snug fit

it's quite a challenge to get it on so

make sure you get the correct size for

your size fender and

that way you'll get the good snug fit

and there won't be any play in it

so it will not slip off and it certainly

won't

make wear and tear for the actual fender

sock. So yeah

on to the next seven fenders

Obviously stress levels are different for

different people, what you might stress

about I might not stress about

what I stress about you might not stress

about, but it's been

18 days since we left

Limni on Evia Island

in Greece, we are now in Turkey and we

are anchored up in this

beautiful little ba, there's not a lot here

but greenery and

nature and fish. What I'm trying to

convey here is that it's taken me

this long to wind down

from our eight and a half months on the

hard with all the things

While we've been

travelling from Greece to Turkey

I've been monitoring the engine on an

almost

hourly basis just to make sure that

everything is

holding together there are no leaks

there's no

water ingress from anything we've done

work wise below the water line

and basically just

you know getting from Greece into Turkey,

checking into Turkey and all of that

sort of stuff

and meeting up with friends

today I woke up and for the first time

I just felt

okay I can just chill and relax now

You know we've gone to Bodrum

and gone to the big boat porn shop and

bought lots of things

in fact I'm still in the process

of applying

fender socks to fenders but I just

thought I'd take this moment to

share this with you if you're

considering this lifestyle

so yeah today's the day

I finally went, I'm chilling

let go of some of that stress

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This anchorage

is super chill but it's also super busy

the name of the place is on the screen

right now and we are in Turkey, the

bottom here

is fine sand covered with pebbles and

some weed and we

are in 10 metres with 42 metres of chain

out. The gusts generally prevail

from the north west and we've had

maximum of about 25 knots of gusts while

we've been here. Onshore facilities are

literally non-existent

this guy here with the campervan

and the tent set up

he does serve food and drink of some

sort so he probably makes that his

summertime business

the rest of the people on shore are

just coming and going

as daytime or a couple-of-day campers

It is a very large bay

a lot of the

boats that come in here do

come in and have a line ashore and one

or two just like ourselves

actually just drop the hook and swing freely

This bay is open to the south and also

to the southeast

All right it is time to move on from

here

and go all the way

down here to Knidos

where we will meet up with our buddy

boat Acheron and the guys on board

They're coming from that island there so

they'll be coming around here

obviously we're coming around here - who

knows we might even meet in the middle

yeah and it's a special day today

because ...

it is a special day today isn't it

why is that? It's my birthday

Happy birthday to you

It's a big one this year as well

Ooh that's what she said [Laughs]

All right bring that anchor up and let's

be on the road

What a great way to begin my birthday

Sailing out of a beautiful calm anchorage

and sailing off to another fantastic

anchorage that has ruins and

beautiful surroundings and

our number one patron, Jim Furness

waiting at the other end

can't complain eh!

Dolphins

there's a whole pod of them over there

There is Knidos

which we're hoping to go to for tonight

but maybe too busy not sure

Thinking if there's space on the

restaurant jetty

we might take it, it would be a lot easier

than anchoring in that

confined space

Do you want to get a

couple of lines ready

in case we do decide to go alongside?

Let's go in and take a look

Very sketchy

I'm gonna go out

and anchor out there

Behind me is the small harbour of Knidos

It's a very ancient port, we stuck our

nose in there

and had a look-see. It is so so busy

and while we were poking our nose around

we saw

one of the daytripper boats bring up its

anchor and snag somebody else's anchor

chain

That's certainly not a game I like to

play so we've dropped anchor here

outside of

Knidos in a nice sandy bottom but

unfortunately

it's very very rolly so the thing is

we're gonna move on to

Datça which is another two

and a half hours

from here, meanwhile birthday girl Aannsha

is having a swim off the back of the

boat

I can't complain

Well you could but no one would listen

Not on this boat no [Laughs]

All right let's go to Datça - Righto

Cap'n - Cap'n

Woo, see

That's really rolly

Yeah you're feeling the roll down there

Yeah! [Chuckles]

*squeaky boat horn sounds

from our starboard side*

Hey! Wanda!

Here we are in Datça

yeah we just pulled in to the south bay

at Datça

and as we were looking for an

anchoring spot we heard this toodle-toodle

and looked around and there was Ismail

on Wanda. Yeah his boat Wanda, who we

know from Kaş marina

Yeah and actually his story is also

in the book Dream On!

Ah yes ... with our story that Jens

Yes ... wrote

Ten sailors, five continents

one marina in wintertime. Yeah and lots

of interesting stories

Very interesting stories

about people and how they ended up on

their boats

so check that out on amazon.com and...

But that wasn't a sales pitch, it was

more about, we're in Datça and

guess who we've met, a friend and he's

just invited us

over to Wanda, his boat so that we can

have little drinky-poos to say welcome

to Turkey, isn't that cool?

while we wait for Jim. Yeah

So we're gonna have a beer

yeah it's so good

All right we'll catch you guys later

Sorry there's a small problem

with your order

but I think I've fixed it now

Okay, teşekkelur (thanks)

Cheers, Cheers dad

Cheers!

So what have you got there? That the

strawberry one is it? Some sort of

cheesecake

I got the lemon one, Jimness has got the

super-saturated chocolate one

I have yes

Mine has been taken away

[Matt says in background ...the Turkish triangle]

because it wasn't good enough

And yours ... I've got kahve

has gone off!

There's a bit of a Faulty Towers moment:

I'm so sorry there's been a problem

with your order

I have to hit my car with a branch

because it's not good enough

Was that the American episode?

The Americans? Yeah

No, isn't that the Health Inspector? [Laughter]

They think the cat's eaten the rat poison

Oh yes and it's coughing up furballs

And they've got the rat

rat running around - yeah

who belongs to Manuel

eventually he

appears in the biscuits

And he opens the tin and the rat's there and he says, would you care for a rat?

[Happy birthday music over the speakers]

[Singing] Happy birthday to you ...

Hey! Thank you Jim!

Youv'e got to make a wish

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