In this episode of Sailing A B Sea we continue our three day mad dash to Kas ready for a full lock down in Turkey.

We were enjoying exploring the Turkish coast when we found out that a full lock down was imminent in Turkey so we decided to make a mad dash to Kas, our home base, and sit things out in the comfort of the marina.

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Closed Captions (CC):
boy if we got something to tell you we

just had a

bit of excitement again so much so we

didn't actually film it at the time

[Music]

i'm barry i'm anchor this is the

continuing journey of sailing abc

5 40 a.m on wednesday morning

and that is the full moon just about to

go down behind the hills

here at kenidos in turkey i'm not sure

if this camera will pick it up but the

anchorage got

kind of busy after we dropped our hook

over there is the

restaurant jetty with the one boat that

was on when we came in

this was the other bloke that was

anchoring just as we came in

this guy here snuck in sometime after

dark

these guys came in just after we did

and this big handset came in just after

we did

and so did this one now our accent point

is over there with the green

and red flashing lights are our anchor

is

somewhere over there and

we're going to have to go that way pick

up the anchor

maneuver past these two and exit

so we'll get the boat ready hopefully

we'll get a bit more light

by the time we're ready to up the anchor

[Music]

[Applause]

okay

[Applause]

well that's our first hour of this 10

hour trip to marmaris from kenidos

done so we need another nine tenths to

go

it is the second morning of our mad dash

back to cash there's a palpable feeling

specifically on board abc there's a

feeling of great urgency

and obviously around us we can see quite

a lot of other boats

that normally wouldn't be moving at this

time of day all heading in the similar

sort of direction

getting back to their home base before

this lockdown now the lockdown is

meant to be three weeks but uh

rumors around that it could last four to

six weeks and if that happens

then you don't want to be stuck out here

somewhere you want to be in your home

base

hence why we're going back to cash been

in communication with quite a few of our

patrons

and um they're all wishing us well and

safe journey back and hope you make it

on time

and but a couple in particular there's

uh lisa and rob

brugerman they have gullets i believe in

maris and uh they're here working on

that gullet and they they simply won't

be able to get the work done because

uh nobody's allowed to work apart from

essential services like medical

and food and so on there's also bruce

steele gray

he is south african and uh

he and his wife were gonna come over for

a three week sale

out of mark maurice into the go check

area and maybe even down to cash

that's being cancelled because even

though south africa has

very low numbers they still have to

quarantine

when they arrive in turkey for two weeks

which would negate the whole point of

having a three-week holiday

so these are the sort of things in real

time in real life that are affecting

people with all these

rules and regulations that are shutting

things down we of course

uh are hoping to get back to

cash by the time well just in time for

the shutdown which will be thursday at

1900 hours that's our

estimated time of arrival back at cash

marina

big fellow just overtaken us here he's

heading somewhere probably palmeris i

would guess

and um so far

everything's looking good that we're

going to get there on time it's going a

bit faster than us i wonder if he'd give

us a toe

hi mate it's a toe

he's towing a boat already what's

another little one on the end eh

it's just after 9 00 a.m and we are

approaching the

northern tip of the greek island of simi

now we've had a bit of a rethink and

we've got the calculator

out and we figured out that we do have

more than enough fuel on board to get to

cash without stopping at marmaris for a

refuel

that has significantly changed our plan

a bit

so what we're going to do is we're going

to cross the northern tip of semi we're

going to go down the east coast of

sydney

then 10 further east and go back into

bosnica

where we will overnight anchor because

the distance from

bozo carla down to cash in hours

is exactly the same as the distance from

marmaris to cash

but now that we don't need to go to

monroe's refuel we don't need to go to

marmarus which is actually

taking us further away from where we

want to be

so that's a new plan we'll still be in

cash around about the same time so

we're still looking at a 13-hour run

from bossicale to cash

tomorrow unless i can figure out

somewhere else that we can get

maybe closer to fettier or that general

area

which will depend on how well we get on

with our travels today

uh given the daylight hours that we've

got remaining for us

it's a very fluid situation as you can

probably guess so that's the northern

tip of simi

all that behind there is turkey

[Music]

up there and around the corner is dacha

and somewhere up there is the sun

which is kind of like playing hide and

seek at the moment

and still we have bugger all wind but

we're not doing too bad on the iron sail

at 6.5 knots

that speed is why things are quite fluid

at the moment

here's the northern tip of simi thatcher

up there

all of turkey all of turkey and further

down here

around the corner is positive we'll

update you

when there's more to update

[Music]

well that was an interesting little ride

coming down the east coast of

simi uh we reached 8.3 knots of speed

over ground which

is pretty good considering our hot speed

is nine knots so until i spoke to you

we've been having a chat with a couple

of other sailors

uh in particular mike and elaine they

are in margaret at the moment and

they're thinking of doing an overnight

back down to cash one of the things that

uh seems to be cropping up as a

common theme is the fact that during

this lockdown this

three-week lockdown that could be four

to six weeks lockdown

there will be no alcohol sales available

so uh one or two people are going oh my

god it's my surprise

it's a hell of a lot of supplies for

four to six weeks

that's okay for us because we're gonna

give our lives a rest don't we we're

gonna go dry

yeah why not and it's kind of enforced

drivers again

all right so um we are about uh just

under an hour away from mozakali we're

gonna try and get onto the restaurant

jetty

if they'll let us come side that'll be

great because we've got our dinghy slung

from the davids

and coming stern too with that thing

there it's just not a dope thing

if not we like it

[Music]

thirty

[Music]

a bit of deja vu going on here isn't

there yeah at least we got it

in straight away and we knew where we

were coming and

yeah we were anchored in bazooka we went

to the first restaurant

no one's tied up there and nobody showed

any signs of coming out to say hey we'll

take your lines yeah it looked very

empty actually

did look kind of closed down so who

knows what's going on there

uh second restaurant jetty uh same sort

of thing we've got some swell coming

into the bay

and we know what happens with swell when

we go to the second restaurant jetty

uh two little kids came out waving the

flags down thinking uh

you don't want to send two little kids

out to grab boat lines because

you know it's a lot of weight for two

little kids

anyhoozle we've come down to the head of

the bay where the

third restaurant jetty is there loading

supplies from the dock

into all the now completed dock into the

restaurants

uh and we're anchored pretty much in the

same spot we were anchored the last time

we were here

so coming up to one o'clock in the

afternoon we'll stay here tonight

and then make an early start uh

for our 13-hour run to cash yeah it was

a bit um

the wind it was kind of it did

everything really

yeah i mean at one point we got um 8.3

knots of speed yeah so the wind was

fantastic that was just the head sail

out

yes um then we got into a bit of lee

and the wind just dropped away so we put

the head sail away

so at one point the wind's coming from

here

then put the sail away and the wind

starts coming from there

and then we move a little bit further on

and it starts coming from there

that's just the wind around this part of

the world you know the med

so many um land masses that probably

just get in the way you know the islands

and the hills and mountains here

probably just makes all that difference

we've got a lot of open

water to cross tomorrow so if there is

some wind i haven't checked the forecast

yet hopefully we can get out and

the wind will be in the right direction

for us and it will be constant

it would be nice to have actually 13

hours of constant wind wouldn't it

from one direction yeah yeah that would

be a bloody miracle in the mediterranean

anywho's hello

not me mate um so we're going to uh

put the boat to bed i'm so

it's time to put the boat to bed and

pack up and then i've finished my

editing i've got to edit the

video that should have been out on

tuesday for the patrons so i'll get that

edited this afternoon and we'll get that

out to

you guys and girls who are patrons um

early this evening yeah uh we might have

to hoist the

dungle up the mouse though because there

isn't any reception here it's pretty

poor yeah

things you gotta do eh all right

we'll see you in the morning 6 am don't

forget set your alarm clock

get your coffee machines going yeah was

it what was that um

the tease mate get your teeth made time

that's got to be an english thing isn't

it

i'll turn it off then shall i yeah okay

it was an experience wasn't it it was so

because it all happened really quickly

we didn't film it but hopefully you will

be

seeing some of this footage of the other

boat being tied up

just an hour ago we were having uh 25

knot winds blowing straight into the bay

and it was quite a bit of fetch building

up

so we've moved from our anchorage

position over to the

restaurant jetty here we've come side

too because obviously our

dinghy hanging from the davits precludes

us coming stern to and actually getting

off the boat

luckily at this time of the year it's

quite quiet so the thing is

we're not really taking up a lot more

space than is necessary

there's plenty more room on the jetty

should other boats come in

in the next few daylight hours remaining

oh look at that took his tea

i thought that turkey's delight wouldn't

you

oh gosh so actually it's quite um

interesting that

this is our last night out in the wild

so to speak before we go back to cash

marina

and the thing is um when we do get to

cash

we're in for three weeks locked down and

no restaurants are open it'll be

literally alcohol walking from the boat

to the supermarket back to the boat cook

food live life on the boat in the marina

that's

it yeah so um the guys here say that the

the restaurant is open

yeah and i can see lots of booze on

their shelf in the bar

so tonight we're right we dine but

tomorrow we ride to york

cash no close

but no cigar i still don't get it

landlord morale but tonight we ride to

york

okay or cash or cats

well that's tomorrow but tonight we're

going to go over there we're going to

eat and we're going to drink yeah and

we're going to be merry

before our three week lock down yeah

which won't happen till we get to cash

which will be a 13-hour passage tomorrow

[Music]

yeah this is me drinking tea don't see

that very often no

i've seen you drink tea more in turkey

than i've ever seen in the rest of our

lives together yep

it's a thing i know biscuits dunking in

either because normally the only time he

would drink tea

would be when he had a really raging

hangover and then he'd come up to me and

go

can i have some of your tea so i would

pour out some of my tea

and he would get digestive biscuits and

he'd

dunk it in or he dunked them into my tea

and then the bottom of my mug would be

full of sludge

but here he just drinks it if i had

biscuits i'd be dunking

i'm going to complain to the management

don't you

dare so rude

oh look things got a bit fraught though

we were a bit tense and we were a bit

touchy so with each other so it's

probably good that we didn't film

[Applause]

but you know that's kind of sometimes

what happens on a boat

you live together you work together you

play together and sometimes

you rub up against each other not in a

tango kind of way and then you just have

to let it go

because life's too short and the boat's

too small to hold on to a grudge

i think i'll stop there now

it's time for some food it's a drink

and an early night before an early

morning on a mad dash back to cash

the sun is going down nature is pouring

more red wine

and our uh plate has just arrived

so we're going to take it to that the

wind is still bouncing around left right

and center

hopefully it should calm down by the

time we're ready for bed we're having an

early night

yes because we got a really early

morning start

but this looks really good last time we

came it tasted really good so

i can't wait all right let's

do it dig in and just like that

we've got to change your location

we're at the same venue different

location the wind is picking up once

again

it's um really howling through i would

say that's probably about 25 knots

easy and we will set out

on the edge enjoying the view which i'm

sure

when it happens is pretty but um

the wind was just howling and we lost

our lettuce and we didn't want to lose

our mind

yummy main course

i'm having lamb chops that's sadly

[Music]

these chips are really hot and crispy so

we've landed on a different planet

and this is the surface it's a bubbling

cauldron of hot something

it looks yummy it doesn't it looks like

caramel doesn't smell like chocolate

if you know what this is write it in the

comments below

if you know how to cook it yeah that'd

be awesome

i think you need something really sturdy

yeah it smells good oh it does yeah

kind of

[Music]

you will yeah

oh it's like butter and sugar

[Laughter]

right i'm putting the camera down now

bye

um there's not a lot left there so

what's the story

it's yummy and it's called hot haliva

and it's a traditional turkish

dessert it's absolutely yummy it's like

caramelized

it's caramelised got tahini in it and

butter and

sugar and all the stuff that makes it

taste nuts wow

just keep eating it yum

just be careful you don't burn your

mouth because you will

even if i've told you you will burn your

mouth you will

i'd just like to say a quick hello and

welcome aboard to our latest patron

anthony grice welcome aboard anthony and

thank you for joining our patron family

you join the journey as we are here

anchored

in bodrum right next to this famous

castle if you'd also like to become a

patron of sailing abc the link is on the

screen right now

check out the tiers and find one that

suits you

so

huh