Turkey October-November 2006 - 6:10 PM, Aug. 4, 2006 |
Plans are starting to crystallise... The boat, a Bav 44, was our "freebie" for having signed our purchase contract. The upgrade from a 3 cabin to a 4 cabin was our first extra, but one shouldn't count the pennies when friends / family are involved. The sail plan : Marmaris - Gocek- Fetihye- Bozburun peninsula-Marmaris The crew: 1) Base crew: me, Popeye, B (very young veteran of Balearics / Croatia 2006), and Starsky, who is even older than Popeye, but competent + a barrel of laughs 2) Crew 1st week: L+A (Croatia 2004, but have cruised aboard a luxury catamaran in the Caribbean this year - will they adapt to "slumming"?), Y+A, our ski holiday organisers for many years. But both participated in shipwrecks in their youth? someting to do with a Grand Banks with floating fridge... 3) Crew 2nd week: Children n°s 3+4, with partners.Will be an interesting experience. Reminder to practice POB (parent over board) procedure before they come on board. Booked the flights to Dalaman today (managed to screw up the return bookings, but Thomas Cook were very nice about it). So all we have to do now is wait 11 weeks and we're off. Thanks to Swagman, whose blog decided us to choose Turkey this year. Next year, we'll probably go for 6 weeks in Greece.. |
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If you can do it - get round to Orhanyi - 10:42 AM, Aug. 7, 2006
You'll love Gocek etc but if you do get a chance, try and get round to the top of the western peninsular to Orhanya - D Marin is the local small marina. If we were to go back to that general area - its the prettiest and most protected set of anchorages we'd choose to visit. You could actually drop anchor directly opposite D Marin and dinghy over to use what we'd recommend - the restaurant just at the top of the westernmost jetty. Good food - nice ambiance under the stars - take your bathers as a nice pool too.God - I'm jealous.
JOHN
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