position update
Arwenofbosham
Rob and Jacky Black
Tue 24 May 2011 18:11
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41 04.3 N 28 14.4 E
SILIVRE Tuesday 23rd May
We left our anchorage at 0545 and headed north to
pass through the small islands before closing the coast of Marmara and heading
NE.
The sun came up and dispelled the mist and the wind
held steady around 8 knots for the first couple of hours which made for a fairly
quick passage
motor-sailing into the wind waves left from the
previous night. The passage across the shipping lanes went fine with just one
alteration of course required to avoid a small coaster.
The lanes are very busy and especially the east
going one today - two cruise ships at least 5 cargo vessels and a huge 'block of
flats' car carrier all in about 1 hour - thank goodness they all past
behind us!
The wind did get up as forecast in the early
afternoon and we had a good F5 from the NNE as we arrived here in Silivre. The
landscape here is lower than further south with rolling hills and
large
coastal towns - you could almost be in the UK! The
port here was full of fishing boats and moorings where we had hoped to tie up so
we attempted to anchor twice but dragged both times the anchor coming up covered
in sea-weed.
We were fortunate that just as we thought we would
have to go else where two fishermen arrived on the large deserted fishing boat
that we had thought might prove a likely alongside berth.-
they took our lines and we were soon all fast in
the lee of this abandoned hulk. We later scrambled across it and took a walk
around the town. Quite big with the usual water-front promenade and associated
tea bars and some new fish restaurants where there
are large displays of fresh fish to buy and then these are cooked to order by
the staff.
Leaving early tomorrow for
Istanbul.
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