In this episode of Sailing A B Sea one of us is going in and it's not me. Baz pulls rank as captain and says one of us is going in and it's not me as we make...

Closed Captions (CC):
Oh my god it's cold. Stop talking about

it

and get it over something

It's caught on a rock under the water

Okay it's free!

Appropriate hatches shut Captain

Jolly good number 1. Oh, need to get this off first. Okay

Tuesday morning, there might be a bit

of wind noise on this microphone but

that's just the way the wind blows

around these parts. Talking of wind

pretty good holding here last night. The

bottom is really muddy we swung around

as the wind changed throughout the night

but we're still where we set our anchor so

we're all good. Where are we going today?

Kukucakak... I haven't seen it written down and I

didn't quite get it from Jimness

Furnessus so I'm not entirely sure. It's

over that way somewhere. I'll let you know

when I've seen it written down.

Alright, the plan

is today we do have a bit of wind so

hopefully we won't be able to get the

sails out which just depends what

happens what we get outside the

funneling effect of this bay. So we're

gonna head north west in the general

direction of Göcek, sailing through

the the Göcek island area really just

to have a look at it we're not gonna

stop anywhere in there I don't think

then we'll get down to the western tip

of the Göcek area and pull into a

little anchorage for tonight. See how that goes hey?

Yeah, looking forward to it. Hopefully

we'll be sailing today. Yeah praise the

wind gods!

Oh please wind gods!

There's our buddy

boat Acheron with Jim just securing the

dinghy to the back end

Aannsha's just releasing the snubber so

I'd better head back to the cockpit ready

for bringing up the anchor

Okay, take the helm, hold her steady straight out the bay, I'm gonna bring out the main.

Wake!!

We motored in to Göcek bay past the

five marinas.

Göcek has very good

conditions for sailing and has lots of

tiny attractive little bays which makes

it very attractive to sailors. But we

were headed for Büyük Ağa Köyü so we

kept on going. We passed through the

channel between Domuz Adası and

Tersane Adası which are two small

islands close to Göcek and we headed

southwest towards our destination.

And you've got to anchor and then tie back

to shore. We're watching Jim doing it

first to get an idea of how it's done

but wish us luck!

Oh my god it's cold!

Stop talking about it and get it over

something

It's caught on a rock under water.

Okay it's free!

Okay, so you come back on board now and take in

some of the anchor chain. Yep.

After we'd put the boat to bed

Jim collected us in his dinghy and we

went to shore to check out the Roman and

Byzantine ruins that were on the nearby hill

We've just completed our first

tying back to the shore anchoring

manoeuvre and it went fairly well

actually. Aannsha was the brave soul that

went into the water but it is 22 degrees

these days so it's not so bad.

Oh minimise it!

Shh. Quiet in the back seats!

See oh there's our buddy boat Acheron and

that's us behind and

normally in the the summer here this

whole wall is just lined with boats all

tied back to the shore.

This is a great

little spot. We're spending a night here tonight

Right now though we're out for

an afternoon walk to stretch the legs

and we're going to some ruins at the top

of this hill. Apparently it's a

relatively easy walk about 20 or 30

minutes to the top and the views are

spectacular

Our objective!

Yeah. Down in the valley there's there's

more look-see

That's one on the hillside small one

a fairly big one here, remains of a big one there

So this farm down here in the

valley

they've got cattle, I can hear goats

there are plenty of beehives as well so

they're getting honey and up on the

hillside there there are some sheep so

they've got a lot of livestock here so

you see there's a circular building a

humpy building there and there's another

one just beyond that silver shack. Those

are wells.

Look at this guy. Don't know what he's doing

there with his front legs - Press ups - it's like he's

trying to - press ups! He's exercising is he? Yeah

So I'm just looking at the now obviously

weather-worn craftsmanship of this is

supporting column and there's ridges

being cut into here and they must have

been pristine in their day but if we

follow our eye up we can see there's a

top lintel which has broken off but the

carving continues perfectly up the

lintel and then into the corner and

across. Care and attention to detail and

even if you look underneath this little

bit here there's a like a little leaf

motif of some sort carved into the rock there. Wow

As far as I can tell there isn't a human

with that herd of goats but they're very

obviously going somewhere

Good morning all it is May the 1st it's

a slightly overcast day but the sun

is trying to get through somehow. Got a

bit rolly in the night because the

entrance to this bay is wide open

but wasn't too bad wasn't too bad at all

Now we're here to tell you about an

executive decision that we've been

making! We are 6 hours away from Marmaris

which was our first intended destination

to get the autopilot repaired and

because it's the 1st of May we've

decided to go directly there today

instead of doing a few more overnight

anchorage's in pretty places because (a)

we don't know how long the repair of the

autopilot is actually going to take and

how that's actually going to turn out

and the second reason is it's also a big

blow coming in a couple of days and we

want to be tucked away nice and safe

yeah it does. Yeah. It will be Thursday afternoon

and all through Friday I think. Yeah. With

gusts up to 40 knots? Yeah. So we'd rather

be tucked in safely.

So we're about half

an hour away from leaving here and then

looking at the flag I don't think we're

in for any wind again so now eager to

crack into Marmaris and finally find a

solution to this autopilot issue. Yeah

it'll be just great to be able to push the

button. So we're looking forward to

getting to Marmaris. Yes. About six hours

Baz? Yeah

We just dropped anchor in

Marmaris in the northern sort of corner

in ten metres of water. Of course the

Mantus went in first time and stuck

like glue. We've got 40 metres of chain

out and we've got a wind currently coming

from the east. It's a bit choppy in here, like

the water is not dead flat calm but

maybe when the wind drops. Yeah I think

so

but then kind of makes you wonder what

its gonna be like when the big blow

comes. Yeah well the big blow is coming from

there and we are 300, 400 metres off the

shore. So we'll be getting blown that way

and there shouldn't be any fetch at all so

it should be technically dead calm for us

and then we'll let out the rest of our

chain to compensate

and we should be good. We went into like

a grassy muddy bottom which is great for

a Mantus. Yes. So we're gonna put the boat

to bed, drop the dinghy because our buddy

boat Jim is just passing in front of our

bow he's got some time in the marina

here at the Setur Marina as part of

his contract, so we'll scoot on over to him and see

if we can find a beer

Why not? It's what we always do at the end of every segment! Yeah!

Join us next

week in Marmaris and find out if we get

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