Marmaris in Turkey
Scott-Free’s blog
Steve & Chris
Sat 27 Sep 2008 19:21
36:49.19N
28:18.335E
We left Khalki
reluctantly - we could happily have stayed longer but the weather pattern showed
that today would be the best window for a while. We had a fair wind for
about half of the passage, and then it died away, so we motored the rest.
When it did reappear, it was on the nose (just for a change!) so we ignored it
and continued to donk. Sometimes you just want to get
there!
We were very soon in
sight of the Turkish coast, and as we rounded the headland into the approach to
Marmaris it all suddenly became familiar. We had sailed here three or four
years ago on a charter holiday and well remember sailing into Marmaris between
the two islands. It felt SO good to be back again - this time with our own
boat.
We soon had the boat
tucked up in Marmaris Yat Marine which is where we will spend the winter on
her. It will come as no surprise to anyone that we then broke open a
bottle of Cava (all the champagne having already been consumed en route!) and
celebrated the successful completion of three and a half thousand miles sailing
from Brighton on our lovely old girl who has looked after us so well every inch
of the way.
There is still some
sailing weather left this season though...