We have been so lucky to sail the Mediterranean for over a year, but this week it comes to an end. We finish the season in Turkey, a beautiful country which is so often forgotten or misunderstood. We sail the coast on route for Marmaris where we would lift Kawai and winter her until we return from Australia.

We begin by sailing from Didim where we collect our papers from our agent to the picturesque town of Akyarla, where we spend a chilled afternoon enjoying a few beers overlooking the pretty town. We enjoy a traditional Turkish meal at a local restaurant and post a new video while eating (using the restaurant wifi).

With some strong winds we head for Ciflik, 88nm from Akyarla and zigzag in between many of the Greek Islands we had previously anchored. It's a bittersweet moment, as it's our last sail of the season but a step closer to seeing family and friends back in Australia.

Kawai will be spending her time at Marmaris Yacht Marina, so we anchor outside and sort the paper work before preparing the boat for a lift. We bring down the sails and our sailing comes to an end for a while.

About us:

Our names are Jason and Tracey and we traded our house, cars, business, job and security for freedom, adventure, travel and living simply amongst nature and the seas on our 45 foot Hanse 445 sailing boat, Kawai.

We don't know exactly where the winds will take us at this stage but over the next year we hope to sail to Turkey, Greece, Montenegro, Croatia.

Jase loves making travel videos and we decided to upload to youtube to share our adventure. We really hope you enjoy and feel free to drop us a comment any time to chat or subscribe to follow along :)

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Sailing Kawai

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what an amazing year after buying our

boat kawaii in gochek turkey we have

explored some truly incredible places

sparkling clear waters vibrant towns and

amazing wildlife have made for an

unforgettable journey in our first

season we explored greece croatia

montenegro greece again and are excited

to be able to winter our boat in turkey

although sailing does have its

challenges the good times massively

outweigh the bad and it really makes you

feel alive

this week we continue sailing down the

coast of turkey exploring picturesque

towns on our way to marmarus the time

has come to winter kauai and get her out

of the water before the bad weather

arrives are we moving again yes we are

off to get our paperwork from our agent

and then we are on our way to marmaris

why is that oh we're getting called out

for the winter

yeah we've got some bad weather coming

yes so we need to get there by

before monday hopefully saturday we will

get called out today is wednesday

50 knots coming

yeah yuck

up early to catch some great winds our

initial sail would take us 30 nautical

miles from dithum to the well protected

bay of aquiala

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i know we're going

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i know we work for days losing hope

fading

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you're a bit excited today aren't you

i'm excited it's a good sailing day

which

we haven't had in a couple of days so

you know when you're pumping along going

six knots

good wind it's calm we're just gliding

through the water it's fun

grease here turkey there

we won't say where we are right at this

second we are in the turkish waters of

course

living on the water you were always

treated to breathtaking views today was

no exception we're often asked what this

lifestyle is like but there are so many

different emotions that i have never

felt before and unique experiences it is

difficult to put it all into words i

just know that i am seriously grateful

and wouldn't want to have lived my life

without experiencing this

oh hey big down the water that's been on

the water all day pretty much and uh

it's nice to arrive to aqua

and

see a different town it's quite

different there's some

very fancy resorts on the way in and

then

the town looks really cute lots of

little restaurants on the water and

there's all different types of

architecture

so um

yeah it's quite interesting

yeah for what to expect when we head to

shore

yeah we're heading to shore which um

yeah well we haven't

really touched ground in turkey yet have

we no we have to go in we've got to post

a video tonight

we've only ever got one gig a day so

just got to go in and buy something

yeah i'm looking forward to it looks

really cool over there yeah

and again we're the uh

we're the only boat in the anchorage a

little marina across from us but

yeah just us so

it's quite easy dropped in sand and um

it's always

this time of year it's just so simple

just drop the anchor in your suite yeah

our first

meal out in uh turkey maybe our only

meal

maybe one more we'll have a couple more

maybe one more that's before before we

go home yes

it's a good start this is a traditional

turkish restaurant family run so um

yeah we've just got some mezzes to start

with finally then

we somehow got some yogurt that we

didn't really ask for but uh

yeah we got more coming though

got plenty more coming yeah and it's

yummy

turkey's food is so good yeah it's

amazing

you actually look really smug right now

excuse me what's going on up here

i'm just getting rid of a little bit of

the uh sand and mud

stuck on the anchor that's all

so she was pretty good holding then

yeah

yeah she was um

there's a few things on the ground i've

since seen there's tyres yeah

just down here i'm not sure if you can

see them

in the water

yep

but um

we didn't get caught up in there which

was good

but mostly it's been a really good

anchorage it has slept well last night

which is what we wanted and

we have to keep moving we've got to get

hauled out on saturday yep

and i don't think we've had northerly

winds we've obviously we're trying to

get south and we haven't had any

northerly winds for

close to three weeks

which is a bit of a pain

um and we've got a massive blow coming

from the south

on knots coming on monday

so um we're going to haul out saturday

so

should be good timing to get there yeah

and we've got about

90 nautical miles to go

yeah yeah there's your friend yeah the

blue stuff there what timing

funny that

in today's sale we would zigzag between

the turkish coast and the many greek

islands we had previously stayed at

88 nautical miles in total arriving late

into the night at the anchorage of

shipflick

oh yeah we're sailing

so good such a good feeling let's open

laughs

it's in our sweet spot too kawaii loves

this direction 45 degrees

and now we get good apparent which means

we go faster

winning

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is

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hidden secrets are hard to keep

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her dreams

hidden secrets

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um

we're just trying to stay out of grease

greek waters as much as we can yes

there's a coast guard over there so

unfortunately we've got attack

instead of just cutting across yeah

well we're cruising past cos and we're

just reliving our cos anchorage

nightmare it was

just over there and we uh

we're pretty new to the sailing game uh

an anchoring game and we had some

terrible swells during the night like

huge and we uh

we were trying to leave and then our nav

lights didn't work and

it was just one of them one of them

didn't work and

we were gonna try to get into the marina

and they said it was too unsafe and

we're like we know we're out here on

anchor um

but yeah we're just uh we've learned a

lot this year and when we look back to

that scenario we'd never put ourselves

in that position again

it's

you know really exposed and um yeah but

the wing was meant to be blowing the

opposite direction yeah it wasn't that

we like we had thought it all through

when we actually anchored there was like

no swell at all it was like

10 centimeters swell rolling in changed

from ten to one to two meter swells

crashing on the shore so it was pretty

crazy but um

yeah we've come a long way we're

cruising past it

and we never want to go back to that

anchorage never we never will go back to

it

while we're in turkey and still getting

chased down by bluestar

not really

the turkish coast culture and people are

incredible and we hope to be sailing and

exploring the many acreages in 2022 as

currently we are locked down in

australia due to covert we can't wait to

get back

yeah

call me what on your phone sorry

what are you doing updating your

instagram

your facebook i'm looking at instagram

you're on watch

this is my free time yeah i'm watching

you

hello

hello

we love simmy

well we arrived here last night at about

11 p.m in this anchorage

we had another anchorage that we had

planned but the uh

anchorage was really narrow and we were

near rocks and we would have only been

able to put out like one time scope so

we decided to keep coming and um

yeah it's a bit of an exciting yet sad

day because it's our last day

uh on kauai

on the water

um we're getting hauled out tomorrow so

yeah it's our last sale today and the

weather is

really turned on for us i think the next

week um there's all rain maybe even 10

days straight away here in turkey so um

yeah it's not a long sail today we've

only got

roughly 10 nautical miles to

malmoros

um

so yeah a bit sad but

also exciting we got through our first

first season we left last november and

today is uh

mid-november

late november i don't even know what the

date is it shows that i'm a sailor now

you're off i'm off

the perks of being a dickie

we are pulling up the anchor well

jason's doing the manual work up front

in the rain

in the

shelter

you ready

come on you joking ready

should be pretty nice here in summer i

think

a lot busier though apparently

yep she looks like she'd be a fun place

to come

lots of blue heights here i think

some nice mountains in there yeah

beautiful colored water

well it's a bit of a bittersweet day

today it's our last day on the water

with hawaii we're putting her up

tomorrow

and yeah

we are heading back to australia which

is the sweet part of it oh you'll like

get to see family and friends when we

get back and uh it's been chrissy with

everyone so that'll be good but uh yeah

hopefully

that's um so the weather is starting to

turn now so

in a way it's a bit of a relief that we

won't be on anchor in winter

trying to find places away from storms

and winds because the winds are starting

to look quite a bit crazier

yes we'll have 30 degrees in the sun

australian summer yeah

yeah pretty lucky i guess

yeah best of both worlds yeah

and where are we

we're heading into marmara into the bay

uh we're going to anchor outside the

marina this evening and

get all the paperwork sorted and then

get pulled out

last coffee on the water on kauai for a

little while we'll be back with a break

in the rain and some sunshine we took

the opportunity to take down the head

sail this was the first time the

headsail had been down on kauai for us

and it all started to feel a little real

that our sailing adventure was coming to

an end for a bit little did we know that

it would be for this long

headset down

yep

and uh a good day to bring it down with

four million bees buzzing around yes

poor little

fellas not trying to harm anyone but

there's probably about

45 amongst the sales

but

why are we bringing this down uh we are

bringing it down because we

need to we are wintering our boat and

also the marina requires us to bring it

down before we get on the hard

yeah before we get lifted so we can lift

it in a couple of hours so we're

bringing her down

and um

yeah

it really does start to feel real when

you're bringing your sails down yeah

can't sail anywhere anymore

this is where kauai will be spending her

time out of the water mamaros yacht

marina is one of the largest marinas in

the mediterranean with 1300 yachts on

the land and 1 000 in the water

thanks for watching next time kauai is

lifted and we prepare for the journey

back to australia with lots to do on the

boat before we leave

crazy weather arrives and we finally

make it home

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