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Topic: Turkey and Greek Islands spring 2016
Posted By: Mark&Catherine
Subject: Turkey and Greek Islands spring 2016
Date Posted: 14 April 2016 at 11:06


we are returning to ubulukutu on Tuesday to prepare for our spring cruise.  Starting in Marmaris we will be sailing to Yalikavak via Simi to arrive by the middle of May.  We collect two friends from Australia and then set off in the direction of Santorini or IOS via intervening islands or those with boats we know and want to meet, returning to Yalikavak by the 20th June. 

We will as usual be flying the MyHanse burgee and have malt on board.  Anyone in the area is welcome to a dram (we will have gin too if that's the preference).

Safe sailing everyone





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385 ubulukutu sail number GBR 3350L in Turkey and Greece with Mark and Catherine



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Posted By: robh
Date Posted: 14 April 2016 at 12:02

Excellent picture

I like Turkey and Greece and I have sailed many times along the French Med coast in friends boats. I am considering taking my boat the long way around from UK via Gibraltar to the Med and was thinking eastern end. 

What are the marinas like in Turkey and Greece and how do the costs compare to UK and other areas in the Med?



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Cheers,

Rob
"Blue Horizon" Hanse 341#113 Portsmouth Harbour UK


Posted By: Mark&Catherine
Date Posted: 14 April 2016 at 16:54
Hi Rob,

Marinas in Turkey are very good, certainly as good as Hamble point where we picked up ubulukutu.  Costs vary a lot, we paid 1500 euro for our 6 months in Marmaris, but the quotes on the Bodrum    peninsula where much higher, I recon Yalikavak is like the south coast costs now, but you do get a fantastic marina.  So there are still some very good deals out there, and some very expensive places too.  In the Greek islands so far we have usually anchored in bays for free.  We have used Kos marina which is middle of the cost bands for a few days.     


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385 ubulukutu sail number GBR 3350L in Turkey and Greece with Mark and Catherine


Posted By: charentebob
Date Posted: 15 April 2016 at 09:20
Hi Mark, Catherine & Rob

Last year our experience was that apart from Kos, Rhodes new marina & Olympic marina in Lavrion, Greek marinas in the Eastern aegean were not very good. In fact there are not many & mostly we used town quays or anchored in bays. The new Rhodes Marina is by far the best or will be when everything is finished. They waited until we had left to open the toilets, showers & laundry! Sorry we will not be able to meet up Mark as we are going to be in the Ionian most of the summer. Hope to overwinter probably on Aegina Island near Athens for more Aegean cruising next year. Have a lovely summer & we will keep in touch. Getting very excited about sailing the new 415. We depart for Naples on 7th May but I still have the Grab Handles to mount!


Posted By: Ta'I Miti 2
Date Posted: 15 April 2016 at 11:36
Ionian are superb
 
People are friendly, lots of places to moor
Did not pay anything in small harbours 
 
Attention: looooots of charter boats arriving all together +/_ 1530
After their arrivals, very few places left
 
I was there in june 2014, wonderfull souvenirs
 
Have a good time
 


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Not only those who wander are lost

I've learn that the best way to learn about people is to sail with them


Posted By: Wayne's World
Date Posted: 16 April 2016 at 16:11
Nigel,

We leave Sicily at the end of April bound for Montenegro, Croatia and then up to Venice. Then around the end of July we will head down to the Ionian for the rest of the season then back to Sicily via Malta. We may see you in the Ionian.   


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Wayne W
Cruising, currently in the Caribbean and will head across the Pacific early 2024


Posted By: richz
Date Posted: 16 April 2016 at 20:50
Originally posted by Wayne's World Wayne's World wrote:

Nigel,

We leave Sicily at the end of April bound for Montenegro, Croatia and then up to Venice. Then around the end of July we will head down to the Ionian for the rest of the season then back to Sicily via Malta. We may see you in the Ionian.   

Hi Wayne, are you planning to stay in Venice for the Redentore Festival (the 16th of July)?



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Posted By: robh
Date Posted: 19 April 2016 at 13:37
Great feedback guys.

Mark and Catherine, I'm not sure I would compare anything to Hamble Point Marina as it is certainly at the lower end of the scale of good marinas on the south coast, its just its prime location makes it useful.

Looks like Ionian is a good option, as long as you get to a mooring before the charter boats.

I like Malta but I hear the mooring there is difficult as there are very few available?



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Cheers,

Rob
"Blue Horizon" Hanse 341#113 Portsmouth Harbour UK


Posted By: Mark&Catherine
Date Posted: 25 April 2016 at 15:37
Moved onto the boat today, nearly ready to set off west towards bodrum.



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385 ubulukutu sail number GBR 3350L in Turkey and Greece with Mark and Catherine


Posted By: charentebob
Date Posted: 25 April 2016 at 16:05
Great news at last. What was the source of your electrical problems & what was needed to resolve them?


Posted By: Mark&Catherine
Date Posted: 25 April 2016 at 16:14
Victron charger repaired, so we got the batteries back. Then the Volvo guys decided the control panel had gone US, no idea how that happened, Isolated the battery, maybe should have left it on to keep power on the panel, amywaY new panel and new tacho arrive on Wednesday. We can run the engine without the tacho and without alarms, and without the engine room blower, lucky it's not too hot. Anyway we shoUld be all working bybthursday night when the new panel arrives.

Still not sure what happened, but.vthere were several chargers blown on this pontoon, so I guess it came down the power lead.

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385 ubulukutu sail number GBR 3350L in Turkey and Greece with Mark and Catherine


Posted By: charentebob
Date Posted: 25 April 2016 at 16:27
Is it possible to fit some kind of surge protector to guard against mains spikes. Next winter we may leave the boat in the water but perhaps it might br better to leave a solar panel connected to keep the main batteries topped up rather than mains power. However the solar is not connected to the engine battery. Any thought She?


Posted By: Mark&Catherine
Date Posted: 26 April 2016 at 13:55
Our engine battery was fine after 5 months being isolated. Inthink surge protection should be possible, but you would need an earth, presumabky the only one we can get at is the one in the same feed as the power.

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385 ubulukutu sail number GBR 3350L in Turkey and Greece with Mark and Catherine


Posted By: Fendant
Date Posted: 26 April 2016 at 17:30
How long can the batteries survive without power ?

I disconnected all topped up AGM batteries ( 90 Ah Starter, 2 x 165 Ah Ah Service, 90 Ah Thruster ) on Oct 25th 2015 completely by removing the negative ground ( no more LED on the Sterling VSRA )
We had a relatively mild winter.

On 25th April 2016 we reconnected all 4 batteries and measured voltages between 12.9 and 13.1 Volt.
Imho no need for a solar panel, when you have AGM's. Mine are now 3 years old.



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Frank


Posted By: Mark&Catherine
Date Posted: 30 April 2016 at 05:25
That's very interesting Frank, perhaps I'll do this next year.

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385 ubulukutu sail number GBR 3350L in Turkey and Greece with Mark and Catherine


Posted By: seileren1
Date Posted: 30 April 2016 at 08:15
I also disconnect my 4*165 AGM house batt when I leave the the boat for an extended periode. After 3-4 months there is hardly any lose in the voltage. We learned this the hard way, having keept the house bank connected while away resulting in batteries beeing "destroyed".

Make sure you disconnect the minus side, plus side disconnection could be dangerous.

An alternative is to stay connected to shore power. We did not like the idea of us beeing away foran extended periode while connected to shore power.

Cheers


Posted By: Mark&Catherine
Date Posted: 01 May 2016 at 13:05
back to the main topic, cruising in Turkey.  After repairing the boat, we have set off from Marmaris under blue skies, although have encountered some strong winds.  For those woried about Turkey, we have to say that nothing has happened to indicate that there is any change to the environment, other than the lack of bookings by the charter fleets, who tell us that they are 80% down on the same time last year.  This leaves the live aboard community free access to all the lovely spots.  Maybe there will be a rush of last minute bookings later, but so far we have seen very few yachts cruising, only 3 last night, and we are alone so far today. 

Passage so far, 

Marmaris to Bozukale, 28 NM anchored alone in the bay

Bozukale to Sogut, tied up to the town pier, lovely spot, 6 yatchts most charterer boats 16 NM

Sogut to Datca, 3 yachts, 2 private, one chartered by a lovely German couple who had been chartering for 35 years!!  22 NM

Datca to Mesudye, one local Lagoon left as we arrived, on our own now.  10 NM


Photos of Sogut will follow




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385 ubulukutu sail number GBR 3350L in Turkey and Greece with Mark and Catherine


Posted By: Mark&Catherine
Date Posted: 01 May 2016 at 13:12
Sogut 




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385 ubulukutu sail number GBR 3350L in Turkey and Greece with Mark and Catherine


Posted By: Mark&Catherine
Date Posted: 01 May 2016 at 13:31
I would like to add a story sad story

On our passage from Datca today we were approached by a coast guard vessel who called us on CH16.  After switching to CH 8 they informed us that they were searching for a missing person and asked if we had seen anything.  We hadn't but agreed to keep additional watch.  The sea was calm.  The Coast guard had the vessel and a helicopter in the sky.  THey did not say if they were searching for a local or a migrant.  We kept watch for the rest of our trip, visiting various floating objects until we say one that looked unlike flotsam.   On investigation it turned out to be a life jacket and a cheap set of waterproofs in a plastic bag.  We recovered the life jacket and jacket, but the trousers sank.  There was no identification on either, so we have no idea if they were related to the incident that the coast guard were investigating.  Nonetheless we tried to contact the coast guard on CH 16 to report the find, but they were our of VHF range.  When we anchored with Wifi we were able to learn the number of coast guard control and rang them.  Despite difficult English we managed to phonetically spell our boat name and pass on the information as best we could.  We were told that a body had been found.  10 minutes later another Coast guard member called us with better English, I took it to be the same chap that had contacted me earlier from the vessel, but I might be making it up.  He asked for the information again and the location of the pick up.  He thanked us for the location and facts, but told us that they had been searching for a local fisherman and that he had been found dead.  

We felt that we had done the right thing, and Cathie did not feel good as we approached the unknown object in the water.  However, we have seen the Turkish Coast Guard in action from water and air, in complex search patterns, and we are reassured that so long as they know that one is in trouble, its nice to know that they are there.

We have no idea whether the things we recovered are from the local or from a migrant.  the Life jacket had no batteries in the strobe, and the whistle was not attached to the jacket.  If this is what the migrants are buying, then someone is even more cruel than I previously imagined.

 


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385 ubulukutu sail number GBR 3350L in Turkey and Greece with Mark and Catherine


Posted By: Mark&Catherine
Date Posted: 04 May 2016 at 15:29
We are now in yalikavak for a few days awaiting the arrival of my sister. Rain expected tomorrow so we're are in the marina for a few days

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385 ubulukutu sail number GBR 3350L in Turkey and Greece with Mark and Catherine


Posted By: Mark&Catherine
Date Posted: 02 June 2016 at 16:06
Well, just hit 400 NM for this season, tucked into a little harbour on the south of Naxos with a 370 called Gluck Auf, sorry about t he missing umlaut.

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385 ubulukutu sail number GBR 3350L in Turkey and Greece with Mark and Catherine


Posted By: Mark&Catherine
Date Posted: 18 June 2016 at 10:22
Just back to yalikavak. Managed 16 Greek islands in our tour this season, 14 of them with our Australian friends in the last 4 weeks. Ubulukutu is 13 miles short of 6000 NM, which we will do on Monday on the way to the yard for her summer lay up.

We faced our first force 8 this season, but like always Ubulukutu looked after us so now she is getting herself a full spa treatment with the help of Aura yachting. Turkey is as lovely as ever, with fewer people, so if you have time there are some great bargains to be had.

Next adventure September. I love my Hanse.

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385 ubulukutu sail number GBR 3350L in Turkey and Greece with Mark and Catherine


Posted By: Wild
Date Posted: 18 June 2016 at 10:38
Hallo Marc & Catherine,
With's is de yard where you are going to for the summer lay-up ?
Do go back to Marmaris Yacht Marina ? Our did you find a better and our cheaper place ?
We ware the last 3 winters in D Marin Didim for the winter lay- up.Before we spend 7 years in Marmaris Yacht Marina.
Have a nice trip back home and hope to see you some where in the aerea in sept.

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Wild and Wet
Belgium
545e#268


Posted By: Mark&Catherine
Date Posted: 19 June 2016 at 13:20
http://www.aganlar.com/index.html Is the boat yard near bodrum, we lift in the summer for all the work to be done, as the boat yard is quiet and we go home when the UK is not too cold! See you in September

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385 ubulukutu sail number GBR 3350L in Turkey and Greece with Mark and Catherine



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