The next vessel of interest for us is this guy here, he's doing 6.9 knots and
the closest possible approach should be 310 feet. Oh! Change that 164 feet in nine and a half minutes
He's gonna come around this headland, we're wanting to go around that headland, we'll see what happens
Once he gets around there we don't know whether he's going straight out here, whether he's going to
curve around there or whether he's want to go where we've come from. We've just gotta wait and see
I'm Barry, I'm Aannsha, this is the continuing journey of Sailing A B Sea. Baz is just looking at the
furling mechanism because it gets a bit stiff. The reason why it's not completely unfurling
is because there's too much line on the drum so when we put it away and we get to our next anchorage
we'll release the sheets and then get some of the furling line off the drum and leave
just one turn of furling line on the drum and that way when we do bring it out there's more
space for more line to go around the drum. Looking inside at the drum we can see that
we've got at least two wraps, maybe two and a half wraps around the drums still remaining
with the sail fully furled away. First thing I notice is that the two wraps that are here
are actually crossed over each other uh instead of being flat against the drum so it's off to a
bad start because we've got double the thickness at the very beginning. We only want two wraps of
the sheets around the head sail up there, when we finish doing this we'll probably have three
maybe even four wraps of the sheets so we need to just reduce that to two once the job's done
So what I want to do now is take that to its fullest out which is
there and then I'm going to wrap that around one full turn and that'll do it. So now you can see
we've got a couple more wraps of the sheets around the head sail and we only want the two that we
normally have so what we've got to do now is just pass the sheets around the sail a couple of times
and then put them back through the pulleys and put a stopper knot in and reattach them to the winches
[Sound of a kiss, kiss, kiss]
Hehe, Kissebuku. Kissebuku. We are here
Here on the east side of the bay there are the remains of a 5th century AD
church and tomb and general support buildings surrounding it. Uh it's in pretty bad nick I guess
and um we can see evidence that the archaeologists have been here, left a couple of signs telling us
roughly what it is and work has stopped I guess and this church wall looking into the church
and the tomb at the other end there. And the tomb has remnants of plaster which showed that
artwork in the style... in a fresco style was was painted in there
In the overall scheme of things we are definitely here, in fact A B Sea is probably
parked somewhere around about there maybe a little bit closer and right now we are standing here
Right now there's a bunch of archaeologists actually restoring the site
and as we come across them they're sitting down having their tea break
but they're doing a great job it looks really really good. Merhaba!
and it looks like the thing that they are restoring is the number two bath house
It's bright! The sun's bright! The sun gets up early it's uh quarter past seven Friday morning
and we are leaving Kissebuku. We are going to Yalikavak. Yeah we've been there before um but we're going
there today. It involves going around a very big headland and technically fighting into the
northern prevailing wind which we don't want to do we've done that far too often and it's not fun so
we're going early we'll get there early ... Hopefully before the worst of it picks up. Yeah we're going
to stay there for the weekend because the wind does pick up even stronger from the north and
where we're going to be anchored we'll be sheltered. So it's a five hour run and also we need provisions
we're out of beer. And my whisky that you finished off yesterday because you didn't have any beer left
Yeah needs must! I just gotta say a good morning toTerry Ball, Terry is our newest patron
Welcome aboard Terry it's great to have you with us, thank you for joining. Cheers and uh yeah you've
just joined us in time for a five hour trip to Yalikavak. Hope you brought your sailing gloves
Yeah and hopefully this time we'll be actually anchoring without the sail out this time! Yes
cast your mind back to the video that's in the link up above. Yeah all right see when we get there!
I'm gonna rinse it. Okay
Even thoughI'm the stand on vessel I've just reduced my speed
uh because well most of these gulet captains just want to get there and they don't care about the rules
and regulations and I like care about not crashing the boat. Let him go in front of us and carry on
It's only 7 30 in the morning and I am totally surprised although I kind of shouldn't be I'm
surprised that there are 14 vessels already on the move all moving in various directions. I've
got a couple of them lit up on AIS because we may get close but we probably won't. The thing
is it's now the 2nd of July 2021 and the general curfew across Turkey has been lifted it's almost
totally normal now, the only thing I think they're not allowing it any more is music after midnight so
it's not so bad. Um so I think everyone has gone right okay that's my holiday it starts first
of July and everyone is out and of course all the gulet owner operators are making the most of it
and recouping income that they've lost over the last year and certainly the beginning of this year
so it's just crazy how busy it gets like somebody switched on the light switch. There's a vessel just
about to come around that headland. I've got three there, another one here, this one is of interest
and into the rising sun there are another seven vessels. Because we left so early our ETA at
Yalikavak is now 12:25 which will be great because the sun will be in a perfect position for us to
look at the water and be able to see through it and we're also going to get fuel while we're there
The next vessel of interest for us is this guy here he's doing 6.9 knots and the closest possible
approach should be 310 feet. Oh! Change that 164 feet in nine and a half minutes. He's going to
come around this headland, we're wanting to go around that headland so we'll uh we'll see what
happens once he gets around there we don't know whether he's going straight out here whether he's
got a curve around there or whether he's wanting to go where we've come from. We've just got to wait and see
That's the guy of interest. It's just another yacht like us and he's maintaining his heading
so it looks like we'll be going behind him
He's quite safely gone by so we'll wave good morning to them
That's a very enthusiastic wave wasn't it? It was a very enthusiastic wave
and now we can quite happily remove them from our watch list on the AIS, put it on auto
get out of there and we can come out of our one nautical mile radius to our usual three or six
next point we're going around is this point here and right now there's nothing on the AIS
and there's also nothing visually that we have to be concerned about. In recent episodes
we've been mentioning here and there bits and pieces about our Gory folding propeller and if
you're thinking about getting one today is a perfect example of a day where the Gory folding
prop really comes into its prime. We're actually driving in overdrive at the moment with the prop
so basically the prop is still open in the reverse blade position so we're getting 6.6 knots of speed
at and 1750 reps so lower revs, similar sort of speed as you'd normally get, so there is a fuel
saving component in that calculation. This fella's a bit close. I've been watching him on the AIS and he's
changed his course slightly so that we will miss each other by about 340 feet in a minute or less
takes nerves of steel sometimes
Phew!
Here's a perfect example of what the wind will do. Right now we can see the wind is pretty
much on our nose and it's coming up to 18 knots, very usable sort of wind 17/18 knots
but we're going straight into it and we're on a course for where we want to go. Let's just come
out another way, we're going to turn the corner here and we're going to head in a northwest
direction. What are the odds that that wind once we get around this corner will be coming from
that direction? Let's have a look when we get there. Breakfast and lunch rolled into one
Sweet chilli sauce on chicken and homemade coleslaw
Get the recipe! Mine's without the chilli sauce and with egg. Yum.
And that's the backdrop for breakfast. Pretty good hey?
That's the northern tip of the Greek island of Kos over there and um we've been past here so
many times now there's a guy in on the second floor apartment on the left of that building
in the middle, every time we go past he waves and holds up a sign saying "Hi A B Sea!" True story!
This might look like a lot of sails on the horizon but they're actually
munchkins we call them. Um the little munchkin boats the um training boats
for the kids and looks like they're having a bit of a race because we can see the yellow
buoys set out at various points and they gotta go around, at the course of the yellow buoys so
uh could be a race, could be a competition, could be just training, but the munchkins are out having fun
Oh look we've come around the corner and we're heading north west well more north northwest
look at the wind: right on the nose! It's dropped a bit though it's only 11 knots now. I should
have put money on that shouldn't I? Just turned the corner and the bay of Yalikavak opens up before us
looking at the AIS, looking through the binoculars it's looking very busy uh obviously a height of
the season very different from when we were here last in uh April and uh yeah there's big
big expensive boats in here so we're gonna poke our nose in have a look you never know there
might be just space for a little one to squeeze in uh if not we'll have to go to plan B or C
This is where I start to get a nervous feeling in my stomach: large vessels
leaving the marina, there's small power boats dinghies, another vessel leaving the marina, a
jet ski and a whole fleet of munchkins all moving backwards and forwards across here. That bay there
is where we're hoping to drop the hook. From this distance it looks fairly empty, let's hope that's
the case when we get there but uh yeah a lot to keep an eye on while trying to figure out where
we're going to drop the hook. Let out another 10 anyway. Now? Okay. Yeah let ten out now. Okay
Nice parking Baz. We're in! We're in! We got in at 12:15 and we dropped anchor in 10 metres
of good holding sand. I'm going to check it as soon as we've had our little chat with you. The thing
is though I think we got lucky getting this spot yeah we're right here and I don't think anyone can
seriously get in in front of us because we're as close to the swim
zones - marker zones - as possible and uh we're far enough away from our very rich neighbours
uh not to be in their face. Yeah we're the poor kids on the block!
But you know. They were all nice they, all the ones that saw us waved at is on the way in
so they're rich but they're nice. Yeah. So this is Yalikavak in Turkey and uh it's very very
much different from when we were here in April, it is absolutely chocker and uh there's even people
going around on jet skis and one of the blokes on a jet ski over there just got shouted out
by the Turks on the white boat behind us going "Oi [ __ ] off with that thing!"
in Turkish. That's what we're imagining they said. That's what I would have said! Haha!
So we're going to be here for a couple of days today's Friday we've got
wind coming in Saturday and Sunday we're in a top spot for being uh protected from
the wind yeah and uh we're also... It's really pretty too... It's a big town over there so we can go and
get provisions. Yeah. I'm sure there's going to be loud music at some point coming from
but... somewhere... but it's pretty, it's really pretty it's like they've got white buildings, lots of
green trees, pink bougainvillea, palm trees, sand. All we need now is some beer. Yeah ... and whisky
I don't know what she's talking about... [Aannsha whistles]
All right, I'm gonna check the anchor now. Okay
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