As promised the marina guy came by @ 9am to fix the hole in the boat, but as usual with all things boat, 3hrs turns to 3x that, so we are still here late in the afternoon.
The repair guy was the nicest you could imagine. Ground down the gel coat, realized that the hole wasn’t going to be an easy repair and said he’d be back. Came back shortly with a baggie of chopped fiberglass to fill in the hole. The hole was caused by the marina guy’s excessive dingy speed which pushed our boat into the dock, which flattened the fenders and thrusted a 2inch bolt head sticking out of the boards on the marina dock into the hull ( side of the boat). First round was the filler with chopped and resin combined, let that dry a bit, filled in the hole quite nicely. Made it look like all the other ‘raw’ fiberglass around hole where the gel coat was sanded off. Then came 5-6 layers of progressively larger fiberglass mats and resin.
When all is said dnd done it looks pretty good, just whiter than the rest of the boat. But we are good to go tomorrow morning.
We jumped on the dolmus (city bus) for the 30 minute ride into town and hit an upstairs cafe for drinks and then headed to an ” authentic” Turkish restaraunt. Have to say that the lamb casserole and Turkish meatballs were superb and topped the night off with chai! Yummy. We had the funniest wait staff. One man learned English watching Baretta and Charlie’s Angels. He kept us in stitches.
Hopefully tomorrow we set sail for the Turkish coast. Unfortunately we can’t visit Greece on the boat as it wad a bit complicated with the boat name change, clearance, and cost. But, with that said we love Turkey so far so it can only get better!
Turkey sounds sensational! When you said ‘we jumped on the dolmus’, I was thinking of dolmas and I pictured y’all straddling stuffed grape leaves! Sorry…it’s late in the day.