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We used a full set of Imray
avoid them. We enjoyed marine life we saw with each each spring, which enabled
charts from G11 upward.
taking the opportunity of dive made it easy for us to us to sail downwind along the
mooring at the many jetties not only agree with, but also main coast until we entered
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the Turkish coast, all free of standing with regard to heavy are three main gulfs on the
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£35.00 and the Turkish Waters
acceptance that a cooling beer was discovered. them is easy – but trying to get
and Cyprus Pilot at £34.50,
both written by Rod Heikell
would be drunk in the taverna Throughout these two out of them when the wind is
and published by Imray.
attached to the pontoon, jetty years we never experienced blowing strongly can make life
or mooring buoy. We neither any difficulty with the larger quite interesting. OFFER
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and officialdom reported them to be very professionally heading across to Turkey to
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Termessos. The rock tombs at a little too close for comfort, we anchored in was 10m and
Myra were not to be missed. enough to worry us into we topped out at 13m, because
Turkey held so many historic standing up on the side deck the weight of the chain and
sites for us to visit and enjoy with fenders in hand, but anchor on the windlass seemed
and had so many interesting on these occasions we were more than enough for it to years was as a result of a very
walks that we found this rewarded with cake from the cope with. It was also our deep low forecast over the
provided a good balance onboard chef and beer from experience that it paid to have Tyrrhenean Sea (W Med) that
between hours sailing at sea. the captain. Where were these a good length of warp to use was heading slowly E towards
The more we travelled bullying captains we had heard as a shoreline, because this the Ionian Sea.
Turkey the more we came to all about? was the normal practice when We plotted the track of this
appreciate the importance of anchoring in the bays. weather system, which started
protecting the environment and The meltemi arrives We were lucky that for out on the Navtex forecast as
marine life. During our second Being on the eastern side of the two years we were there a gale F8 deepening. By the
winter we took the opportunity the Aegean, Turkey is subject we had only a few incidents time it passed the Ionian it
to qualify for our PADI open to the summer meltemi wind, where the weather caught us had become a strong gale F9
water diver certificates. The although we found it not quite out resulting in one of those and, once over the Aegean, a
dives were taken in clean, as strong as in other parts of sailing days that are not for storm F10. I hoped the storm’s
clear waters that were free the Aegean. We found that if the faint hearted. We had centre would pass N of where
from litter and pollution. The you wanted to spend the experienced a freak squall in we were moored, but fully
summer sailing, as opposed Gocek bringing 56kn winds expected us to be treated to a
to motoring, the trick was and had heard of yachts strong gale.
to get as far north as you dragged inshore by the strange Dudley and I discussed
could before the end of currents along the stretch the benefits of trying to ride
June. We made of coastline known as ‘the out the weather at anchor in
the journey seven capes’. By far our worst a bay opposite the harbour
northwards experience during these two at Kalkan, but more >>
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