Marmaris
Serafina
Rob & Sarah Bell
Mon 21 Sep 2009 14:24
Sunday 20th September
Rather disappointing day in many ways.
Left Simi at 8.00am just after 'Matelot' had gone past waving goodbye and we
headed south in little or no wind at all despite the forecast suggesting 40
knots. Long old day as we motored the whole 40 miles and the only brief
excitement being the two young tuna we caught. Each would have made a nice
meal, but our consciences won the day and each one was returned fit and well
(but a little surprised perhaps) to the sea. So where were their caring
parents I wonder? 'Matelot' emailed us later to say that they had enjoyed
(?) 37 knots of wind on their sail to Kardamena which is what we had hoped
for ourselves.
Loads of yachts out drifting around as we approached Marmaris and we headed
straight into Yacht Marin (yes, that is the correct spelling) which is
actually several miles south east of Marmaris town. This is the
marina/boatyard where we will be leaving Serafina for the winter and so we
took the opportunity to look round and see what was what. Immediately bumped
into Vanessa & John from "Meand'er" who we last saw in Molivos, Lesvos
Island, back in May. They, along with various others that we have met very
recently have been brilliant at explaining how everything round here works.
There is a large 'liveaboard' community here and they have set things up to
make life very enjoyable and anything but dull. We are planning to get a few
modifications done and there is no shortage of good companies based around
here to do pretty much everything and at very realistic prices.
Free Wi-Fi here too, so now is the time to get to grips with our Skype
phone. (rh.bell)
Social life beginning to get complicated now as boats start heading for
their winter berths. A lot of people we have met this year will be coming to
this marina which is huge, but many will want to keep sailing until as late
as possible, so meeting up with them is going to be pretty random. We are
now booked to crane out on 19th October and plan to fly home on the 25th
October, but with the work that we need to get done we will probably base
ourselves here quite soon and start chasing round.
Photos http://www.rhbell.com