In this episode of Sailing A B Sea we depart Kas marina near to the end of May and begin exploring the Turkish coast 2021 style. Our first hop is 40nm from Kas to Gemiler Bay which takes us 7 hours.

A big thank you to Tim @Freedom Family Sailing​ for the excellent drone footage in this video. Check out their YouTube channel to see what the Kiwi's think of Turkey.

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Closed Captions (CC):
good morning people it is saturday

morning

close to the end of march and

it's a gorgeous day it's also a special

day because we're beginning our

trip up north right now how are we going

pretty good

right we're all shipshape ready to go

kevin good stuff

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all right we're all shipshape ready to

go captain good stuff you've got your

stripy shirt on again i have them all

yeah nautical so the plan is today that

we're just going to head

up to the island of gemello which is

near carriage aaron

and we're going to stay there for

saturday night and sunday night sunday

because of the

curfew lockdown we can't move sunday and

then

monday we're gonna head into marmaris

good day for it uh probably not gonna be

a lot of wind

but the wind is the thing that's kept us

here for the last

two and a half three weeks this is our

third scheduled departure date each one

has been cancelled due to weather yeah

simple as that we've had 70 knots of

wind in this marina

during one of those weather incidents 70

knots of wind

yes gusts yeah right let's get the

marinara's on the radio because we want

our

line off the bow and uh we'll get this

engine started

and we're on our way

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this huge beach off our starboard side

is batara beach

and just behind the big sand dune is the

ruins of patara and we visited that

ancient site

when we first visited turkey in the

winter of 2018

to 19. there's a link to that video in

the top corner of the screen right now

it looks like it's not only us that's

taken this weather window

opportunity to get moving we've actually

seen three

monohulls heading the way we've just

come from

and one of them is our friend and

neighbor from cash marina dilli dally

hi yens going the same way as we are is

a catamaran from cash marina

everybody seems to be making their moves

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do

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do

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that's cara jauren that we've been to

before

and we're actually looking to go to an

anchorage around here

general island

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not the only people looking for an

anchorage tonight here

heather this is where i painted the

archway that you've got

as a twenty dollar patron cool hey

gemala island and there's evidence of at

least

one byzantine monastery there look

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we're gonna check out this little bay

here

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how's that for a view

do you reckon burst i reckon it's

pretty good i'm not expecting any wind

tonight so

at gamila beach restaurant over there

and a few people

looks like they're having a barbecue

well it's saturday isn't it true

we've got to get it all done before they

have to lock up and

pack up and go home and stay in tomorrow

but compared to some countries that's

not a bad deal is it

time arrival 17 30. thank you

beautiful that

my dears is a 360

degree view of where we are anchored

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now this guy's chose to find he's going

to try and get in here now

okay well well he can do a line of

showroom

take a lot of this shot he can go

swimming yeah swimming line ashore

water temperature i would guess probably

somewhere around about

16 maybe if you're lucky that's celsius

a bit chilly yeah yeah

cheers cheers not a bad first day

no a little bit longer than expected

yeah now

yes we're here

yeah okay we've got a boat just about to

run into our side so that's pretty good

nice place

yeah you know i like about boat life

bears

no i don't have to wear makeup and i can

wear old clothes because nobody can see

me

this is a thing

except you except you it's sunday

morning

it's about uh coming up to 10 30. it's

dead calm dead flat here we're at

gammala

island um just off the turkish coast

six hours seven hours north of cash

and we stopped here yesterday and last

night our plan was to go and visit

gimella island

and we woke up this morning tootled

around

and i took i'm feeling

lazy i think is the word i i really

don't want to get the

dinghy off the bow put the painters on

gather all the cameras together put them

in the dry bag

change into hiking clothes we're going

to have to row all the way over to the

island

because we're not taking the engine off

the mount because we'd have to get it

back on the mount because tomorrow we're

going to marmaris

and the we can't there's a lot of things

and i just thought

i just don't feel like it and we have to

go to marmaris tomorrow because on

tuesday is a big win coming in

so the thing is we've made an executive

decision and

this is a stop that we will make on our

way back down the coast

definitely as a staging post for our

final hop

into cash so the water will be warmer

then

and we can get ourselves with the line

ashore then

who's doing the lighting shop you are

and we'll actually do a line of short

directly to gamma island

and then we can go and explore the

island itself today

we're just going to sit in the cockpit

and do some editing and you're going to

do some

painting i bought some new watercolors

and i want to play with them today so

but not until

i've done what i need to do with the

editing so yeah

so that's our plan for today yeah so

we're not really being lazy and i think

i think you beat yourself up when you

think you're being lazy don't you i do

yeah but then again we've been working

quite a lot

yeah um to actually get the boat out of

the marina and

be here yeah the last two or three days

were really quite full-on

full so yeah so

so you know like this is one of the

reasons why

we chose this lifestyle is so that we

can actively relax

when we're not you know working so

today's one of those days

yeah so we will bring you gemella and

the

ruins and everything but next time give

me something to look forward to

yeah today is the 28th of march 2021

and we are officially marking the

opening of the summertime office

for our turkey tour 2021

next week on sailing abc we up anchor at

gaemila bay and head north west to

marmaris

the 45 nautical mile journey was

expected to take nine hours

but we made it in eight and then we have

some fun reversing

abc down the very narrow fairways to our

berth

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