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Beautiful day. Still no Internet access but we carry on. There were places to connect but that would have cost money and there was really no pressing need to get online.

Lovely night in a small cove, two other boats on anchor. We took the dingy ashore seemed like a nice place to walk the beach and there was a interesting fort looking thing that was a hike up a hill. Dingy a shore no problem everyone smiled we walked on their rocky stretch of beach. Found the trail to the lookout, hiked past an ampitheater and on to the top. As soon as we got there the smiley security guard said, “No no is forbidden”. We said sorry and followed him down the mountain and were then “escorted” off their property.

On the way down we noticed all the other people had orange wrist bands on – guess it was a private club – err well yes that’s what the name on the big resort looking building said.

After getting eclipsed from the club there were other places on our side of the fence to visit so we started that direction. Just to be sure I went back to ask our escort out if the rest was ok to visit. A smile and a “yes yes no problem” we checked out the rest of the cove.

Shops and markets and of course lots of places to eat. Every where we go they are surprised that we are Americans. The Turks speak great English for the UK visitors. Found a nice place with a bay view for a couple cold beers and appetizers with thoughts of dinner on the boat. Appetizers ended up being enough.

Back to the boat for a beer or two. Slept in, sometime overnight a 3rd boat anchored in the bay

Not the normal couch but works the same
Too many lines, what does this one do?
Hard work
Looks like a private island
Approaching Ciftlic
Old Glory
At Anchor
From the Fort walls
Only Road to here
View of Dock
Restaurant dock in Ciftlic
Keyhole

Yahooooo is yaHoooooo in any language

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Well after a very long day of sailing you can tell by our track that we didn’t make it very far!

Early start was not meant to be. The marina got backed up trying to get folks out of the marina. You do have to get their help as they need the paperwork to let you out. So out by noon then tacked across the bay as a sailboat. In the channel the winds freaked and stopped so we ghosted along and had lunch breakfast tacos. Then fired up the engines to clear the lee of the island.

After cleaning up lunch, the wind had come up, time to sail. It’s a sail boat after all. The main was still up at 1 reef so we were good till 25 kn of wind it was gusting till 23 so life was good. The further offshore/course we got the faster it blew. Eventually hitting the dreaded 30kn mark that means another reef. So we are double reefed main and jib and still doing 10kn but not toward the destination. Lots of fun but no forward progress, sailors call it VMG.

Circa 1903
100foot’r across the pier from us
Another big un
Christine
The Sails are up

Tacking practice will make perfect, here the Jib Sheet gets hung so the jib gets a little back winded for a couple of seconds.

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After a couple more practice tacks

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Tuesday – Long day in the marina again….

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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!

100 footer next door
where did it go?
Deep Thoughts
Pre Dinner Roof Top Bar