In this episode of Sailing A B Sea we drop anchor ready for our autopilot repair in Marmaris, Turkey. Whenever we are getting work done on A B Sea and especi...

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Okay here we are at Nail's shop. Let's

go and find out how much this fixed

autopilot is gonna hammer the wallet.

Merhaba. Gunaydin, please

Okay yes. So small problem?

No

Well one of the main reasons we're in

Marmaris and probably staying here a few

days is because of this little fella.

You may remember the story of our

pre-loved Raymarine ST 6002 autopilot

control head that we got from the

Raymarine guy from Antalya or

Istanbul we're not quite sure. Well it

lasted today, well not even that really - no half a day -

on our shakedown cruise and

realistically this is the best place to

get things fixed. Marmaris is renowned

for being the mecca for boat repair jobs at

a quick rate and a good cost. So

we've been in touch with the electronics

guy who is over there somewhere

and we're going to take this little

beauty to him see what it what he says

is wrong with it, see if it can be

repaired and look at our alternatives

yeah so we're gonna get in the dinghy and

bugger off over there. Okay let's go. Nice day for it

We left the autopilot with Nail the

technician and then visited the many

Chandlers in the area. After that we

decided we would do some sightseeing

We did say we were going to go and do

the tourist thing but we're still an

hour and a half later in the same couple

of streets where all the boat shops are

and you go in these places and you go oh I

need that and I need that too, better get

that. But one of the big things we have

just bought for a hundred and forty US

dollars is 15 metres of floating line on

a reel that attaches to your stern rails

and then you can tie back to shore with

it. It's gonna make life easier. It's been on my

shopping list for a long time and ever

since I had to do the tying back the

other day it's been on my shopping list

too!

And now that we've spent a lot of money we

are about to meet up with Cath who is in

Marmaris buying a boat.

How exciting for her! We're gonna hear their

story yeah and see how they get on with

their survey yeah over a couple of beers.

Rule number one never let a yachtie loose

with a credit card in a street full of

ships chandler's because it was only the

promise of a nice cold beer that managed

to lure me away yesterday otherwise I

would have to be dragged off kicking and

screaming. We were shopping. One of the

big items we bought on our list was this

This is a 50 metre shore line which

attaches to the stern rail by this meaty

connection here and it's floating line

so that means we can tie back to shore

which a lot of places require you to do

in Turkey simply because of the depth of

the water and we will probably be using this

a lot in Greece as well. So that was a

great purchase for a hundred and forty

US dollars. Stainless steel, very

solid, very good, very happy with that

In addition to this we bought this so

that when it goes ashore it just clips

around itself around a rock or around a

tree or whatever we're wrapping it

around so it's easy clip on clip off

Other things we bought was this little

see-through and washable inline fuel

filter for the outboard on the dinghy and

of course with that you need a couple of

these hose clamps so we got those as well

An electrical connection block. Neded

one of those, always handy to have those

on a boat. Whipping because Aannsha does

like to do some whipping every now and then

So nice nice stuff pre-waxed good stuff

And because she will be splicing

ropes and then whipping we got her one

of these wonderful little tools to make

the whole job a lot easier. You put

this through the the braiding of the of

the rope and then the bit you're gonna

splice you can actually feed it through

and it slips nicely through it makes the

whole job a lot easier. On our dinghy at

night especially in a busy place like

Marmaris in this anchorage in particular

we really should use an all-round white

light so we now have this wonderful

all-round

white light which we'll be mounting or

we're actually still considering exactly

how it's going to be mounted but it has

a very very powerful magnetic

clip on the bottom and

I forgot to put batteries in it but it

is very bright and all-round white light

very good safety feature for the dingy

at nighttime. And finally for the Aussies

who've been going on about it for over a

year now - look what we got! An Aussie flag

that we can fly off the port side of the

boat. Aussie Aussie Aussie. Oi Oi Oi!!

So that was

our shopping spree yesterday today we've

got to go back into town and fingers

crossed our autopilot should be fixed at

a very reasonable price.

Just had a

whatsapp conversation with Nail from

the auto pilot repair shop and he says it's ready!

He didn't say

how much it was but we're gonna go there

now. I can't believe I've actually got

butterflies in my stomach with

excitement of actually getting the

autopilot fixed and back on board and I

know it's daft. Oh no it'll make it so

much easier in a few different ways

like so yeah I haven't got butterflies but

just to be able to sit and not have to

hand steer is a bonus, yeah, and then you

know when we're trimming the sails, yeah,

then I can actually help with both

hands instead of having one hand on

the wheel and one hand on a line

that kind of thing, so yeah it'll be much

easier won't it. Yeah. Right let's go and see the man

One of the things we purchased yesterday

was an inline fuel filter for our

outboard fuel. It's always good to

monitor that sort of stuff because you

know we're not always going to be in a

civilized place that has a great

turnover of fuel and that leads to dirty

fuel in some cases so that was good, glad

that's fitted.

Ok here we are at Nail's shop.

Let's go find out how much this

fixed autopilot is gonna hammer the

wallet

Merhaba, gunaydin

Gunaydin please. Tesekkelur. Hos geldin

Okay. Yes. So, small

problem. No

SMD 'transfer minic'. Here. Ah okay. And then here two

diode kaput. Gone. Okay. So the big question how much? A hundred dollar okay.

So what's a hundred bucks?

One hundred US? Turkish Lira? Turkish Lira

yeah yeah yes 597 Turkish

lira yeah okay. No problem yeah five five

five hundred fifty. Okay let's see

what we've got in cash

Yes [counts] one two three four. Yes here okay. Fifty. Yes. 450. Yes deal

No problem thank you. You're welcome. And you're on YouTube too in five weeks

Yes five weeks. Yes okay. Okay thank you

Thank you. You're welcome.

Okay so Nail's fixed the autopilot. A couple

of diodes had broken and one of

little chips needed replacing so he

showed me that it functions. He did

originally say it was 100 US dollars - 570 Lira.

For cash he took 450

So 450 Lira, I'm happy with that.

Yeah great

So this is where you come. This is the place for

everything to be fixed here 6-a. Ask for

Nail (Nile), tell them A B Sea sent ya.

Next stop was the post office because we had a

postcard to mail to one of our patrons.

Along the way we saw a little bit more of Marmaris

We're just about to send our

very first postcard off to our first 10 dollar Patron

That's Diane and Jeremy in the USA.

Aannsha's using her best handwriting now

The next day we took a whirlwind tour

around Marmaris Bay and watched a gullet

towing another gullet back into the

harbour

If you are coming to Marmaris and you do

decide to drop your anchor here in the

northern anchorage just be aware that

during the day this water gets very very

choppy and confused with all of the boat

traffic that happens to be around here

By early evening as the wind drops and

the boat traffic subsides everything

flattens out and you do get a really

restful peaceful night's sleep. Right now

this anchorage isn't very busy at all

but I would imagine in the summer that

it does get very chokka very quickly so

if you can I would advise getting into

the shallower water so you don't have to

have a lot of scope out and that will

reduce your swingage and less chance

of course of banging into anybody else's

boat. Another thing to be aware of if you

are anchoring here all of these pirate

boats and day tripper boats, around about

9:30 in the morning they all decide

that's it they're going out for the day

and there is absolute madness as they

all try and beat each other to the best

spots for their paying guests. They will

just plow at full speed right through

the anchorage here so just be aware of

that and keep your eyes peeled.

The holding on the bottom here is very good

it is mud and we haven't budged an inch

since we dropped the Mantus so that's a

good thing too. All in all Marmaris has

been a great place for us to get some

work done and I would certainly advise

if you need anything repairing or looked

out then come to Marmaris if you're in

the general area. Things can be done very

quickly and at a reasonable cost here

too

Things don't always flow smoothly

between us. Sometimes tempers can flare

over the smallest of things

These two black ones hey? The white ones then? Short ones! Okay. I thought they were short

Like the ones that you use to tie to the

bloody... that right in front of you there, what's that?

Use that. Two of them.

Short, easy to throw. That's it

Yeah there's only one of those that's

short

There's got to be another one because we used one for the bloody mooring ball

Are you talking about going to the dock?

that's not going to go around.

I tell you what, you choose

the lines that you think are going to be long enough

If you want to throw a @#$ great big long heavy line please go ahead and use one

So you see bag full of @#$% lines. Yes that's a long line

It's not the big and heavy though is it?

But we can't just walk away when A B Sea

needs her crew so we push on through

You just get me another line and I'll work with it

Can you find anything else, is it the wrong colour for you? @#$%

You know you want to get an attitude

adjustment. So do you some times

But at least I don't speak to you like you

know like with @#$ sarcasm every five

#$%^ seconds. You've changed the rules so I'm looking

for something specific that you're telling me to

find, I can't find it and you get a

little shitty with me. @#$%

I'm gonna bring up the snubber

There's already a boat on the dock. So what?

We'll call it we'll just go

By the time we're tacking out of

Marmaris bay we've left it all behind

and are looking forward to Bozukkale

I was just saying to Baz, it's actually

nice sailing!

Wind's droping a bit and we're

going that way which is East when really

we want to be going South so just gonna

keep going this way a bit till we get past the

headland and then we'll tack and see if there's

enough wind to keep us going. There is

another yacht coming around the headland

that has got full sails out so that's a good

sign hopefully. Yeah. See how it goes. Yeah

If we were going that way it would be perfect wouldn't it? Yeah. 4.8 knots. Yeah.

Join us next week as we go to Bozukkale and watch the Coast Guard bring in

a small yacht with engine trouble. Then

Jim in his yacht Acheron tows the little

yacht with us to Datça. If you enjoyed

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