Marmaris to Kadırga Limanı

Finally leaving the marina   

On Sunday we bought some fresh bread, paid the marina bill and finally left our mooring.

Pupa anchorage beside Yat Marine   

Approaching Marmaris and Netsel Marina   

We headed out to the north, past the Pupa anchorage, and on towards Marmaris and Netsel Marina where we planned to get fuel. The main tanks were full but we wanted to fill up the jerry cans on our deck and the petrol tank for the outboard. There was space on the fuel berth behind another yacht so it was all done quite quickly. The fuel attendant helped with our learning the language by getting Nicky to call out the quantities of fuel in Turkish.

Leaving Marmaris Bay   

A southerly course from Netsel took us out of Marmaris bay and a short distance down towards the next headland. Just to the west of the headland is Kadırga Limanı, a pretty bay with a very sheltered inlet. The passage allowed us to check for engine leaks and to clear any bubbles in the cooling system because it was a motor the whole way. The wind was less than 5 knots except for the last mile (inevitably!) as we approached the headland.

Moored in Kadırga Limanı   

Once inside the bay we found that we were the only people there and so took our time mooring up in the little inlet. It is very sheltered and the water is clear but still a little chilly (19 degrees Celcius) so Nicky donned a wetsuit for running the lines ashore.

The evening was very still and we lazed in the cockpit reading. I finished Sir Robin Knox-Johnston’s ‘A World of My Own’, an account of his 1968/9 epic non-stop, single handed sail around the world in his 32ft long yacht Suhaili; the first ever. Inspiring stuff. All of his position fixes were done with a sextant; we must practice our astronavigation this year!

Dinner on board in a quiet anchorage was very pleasant, as was being able to go to bed without having to set an alarm clock. After just over 2 weeks of work on BV I think that we had earned a lazy start in the morning.

Kadırga Limanı   

Our lazy start was interrupted by the odd thunderstorm or two. The rain continued intermittently all morning and so the urge to get going was not strong. Instead we spent the day worked on updating the admin. In particular, the spreadsheet showing where everything is stored on board. Invariably this is not kept up to date when we are busy working on BV and trying to hit a deadline but today we were able to update the ‘master list’ with what spares we had used, what we had replaced and where things have been moved to. I also finally worked out why my spellchecker wasn’t working and so hopefully there will be fewer typing mistakes in the blog entries from now on.

Tomorrow, wind or not we’ll move on. Where to we don’t know but we’ll sort that out when we know how much wind there is. With a good wind we’ll press on, otherwise we will just motor southwest for a bit and find a new anchorage.

Kadırga Limanı, Turkey