@Sailing Kawai
This week we leave Australia and fly to Turkiye to be reacquainted with our boat Kawai. We have 2 weeks to get her ship shape before we leave our hard stand and are placed into the water. There are many jobs to do, as we receive new batteries, a new solar arch is installed and Trace heads up the mast to fix the anemometer. We have some last minute maintenance issues before we head to the safe bay of Marmaris.

Our friends are arriving in 1 week so we take the opportunity to sail to the beautiful bay of Kumlubuk. With light winds we check our main and head sail and ready them for the season ahead.

Kumlubuk is a large anchorage 7nm from Marmaris. The bay has a variety of restaurants and bars, walking trails and some lovely swimming bays. We use the perfect conditions to explore Amos and it's ancient ruins which has an amphitheatre dating back to the 4th century bc.

With light winds we cruise back into Marmaris ready to pick up Damien and Nicole before we sail towards Gocek.

About us:

Our names are Jason and Tracey and we traded our house, cars, business, job and security for freedom, adventure, travel and living simply amongst nature and the seas on our 45 foot Hanse 445 sailing boat, Kawai.

We don't know exactly where the winds will take us at this stage but over the last couple years we have sailed to Turkey, Greece, Montenegro, Croatia.

Jase loves making travel videos and we decided to upload to youtube to share our adventure. We really hope you enjoy and feel free to drop us a comment any time to chat or subscribe to follow along :)

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Jason: https://www.instagram.com/jase_stephe...
Tracey: https://www.instagram.com/trace_y02/?...

Music
1. Always on my mind, Paper twins feat. Feat Erik Fernholm
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2. Lonely calling, Arc De Soleil
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3. Some Thing, Rambuten
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4. Homeless Soul, Fleurs Douces
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5. Floating baby, Adam Yoo, https://soundcloud.com/adamyoo_music/floating-baby

6. Zolfan Chang Chang, epidemic sound
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this week jase and i leave australia and
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fly to turkey
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kauai is returned to the water before we
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get into a number of jobs on board the
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season starts with our first sail to a
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beautiful bay near marmarus where we
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swim and explore some archaeological
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here at the golf cruise airport and
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we've got about 180 kilos of luggage
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including our water maker so it's going
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to be a big day yeah
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do
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excited as well
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she's uh looking pretty good actually
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yeah she is and the only problem we can
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see currently is a moldy mattress which
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oh you don't really need that
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too late i have now but everything else
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is how we left it which is crazy we're
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really expecting it to be horrible
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started
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having work done we've got new batteries
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getting some new solar panels which
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haven't been sorted yet but
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it's on the way so we've got about two
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weeks to sort all that out yep and a new
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water maker
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yeah it's coming looking forward to the
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season ahead it's pretty exciting yeah
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the construction and installation of the
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solar arch was a big job it would hold
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and 1050 watts of solar panels and tiny
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or a large attending in the future
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potentially
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tms in south marin did an excellent job
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flag is going back up and we'll put our
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turkish flag back up
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today as well um
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yeah pretty exciting we've had our agent
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look after all paperwork so we're ready
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to cruise
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yay
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but didn't actually get to uh fix the
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ananomata which is the reason main
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reason
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that i went up
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it started turning for a moment and then
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stopped
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um
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now i'm still in the process of getting
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the
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mast failure down so
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let's go all right well you went up for
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a prize i did and you got it yeah how
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long did it take
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uh half an hour yeah
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it was a long time up there i was just
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sitting watching going up my job's easy
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and if i'd been a little bit taller i
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might have been able to see that it was
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actually quite easy and get it off so so
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what did you actually get off what's
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that called
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an anemometer
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our wind speed reader is not turning
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that's all the grease that i've tried to
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make it turn but it keeps getting caught
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so hopefully we can clean her out yeah
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you went up yesterday
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put some wd-40 on her and it was
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spinning and then i just didn't look at
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it again cause i was keen to get down
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and um didn't work look back up when you
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got down and went i'll fail
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anyway you did well up there yeah i'm
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pretty stoked i got it down
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now just to fix it and then back up you
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go
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good morning
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prepping
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prepping our little yeah yep
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it's a good one that's why i said good
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morning
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sunshine
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[Laughter]
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how you doing
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yeah good it's our
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last morning in the marina getting a bit
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excited yeah getting prepped yeah and
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everything ready to uh
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well we gotta
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empty the uh yeah that's a bit of a
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bummer it's just an exciting day yeah
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it's a little stop off but at the end of
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the day who cares once we've done that
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yeah freedom
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it's exciting yes let me get to it
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just
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yeah it's really good to be back on the
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water again it's a beautiful
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once we arrived at the marmaris
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anchorage we found a few little issues
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and decided to head back to the marina
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to sort them out
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take two
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it was actually possibly a good thing
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because they picked something up in our
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battery system that wasn't working
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correctly it wasn't uh
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sending information to our monitor so um
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yeah
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it all worked out pretty good actually
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well it's first day on the water marist
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we're out of the marina life is pretty
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good we've given a gift from some people
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we met
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the big one leader fs so we thought we'd
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just christian christen
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one
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this afternoon it's a really cool
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feeling to be on inca finally so yeah
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life's good just wanted to update you on
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how happy we are
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well we've got a new system we've got a
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brand new solar arch
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and we've got a new feature
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trace can fit a trx on it don't stop
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i can see that you're stopping
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are you happy with this new setup
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not a bad place to uh work out this
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morning
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all right we're sailing yeah it's very
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exciting just turn the engine off it's
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best feeling
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uh we're testing out head sail
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currently make sure it's all good we do
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have a bit of a chase
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in the halyard but um
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that we need to mix eventually
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hopefully that doesn't cause any
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problems
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so far so good and autopilot is working
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as well
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has
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oh it looks like a bit of a lake here
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currently
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how's it going yeah we've hit a bit of a
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no wind zone through the uh gap here
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but i can see it on the water up ahead
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so
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we're just waiting we are not turning
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the engine on
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we refuse to turn the engine on yes
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diesel prices are way too expensive plus
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it's our first sale we have nowhere to
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be that's right
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we have thrown up both sales now just to
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try them out and the wind's coming and
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now and momenta
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is down so we're having to rely on our
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flag to see the direction of the wind
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and
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we're just we're just guessing the speed
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of it
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which is fine it's pretty it's pretty
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calm let's be honest
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is the new view
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the anchorage
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the bay we anchored in was kumbaluku
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short seven nautical mile sail from
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marmarus a great spot to explore the
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ancient amphitheater of amos which was
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constructed in 4 bc and it had a great
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view over the bay
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tend to cap what's going on
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well getting the tender ready
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it's my job
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now we're gonna go for a walk um this
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morning so
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we believe there's some old sights up
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here to explore and on this mountain
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now we don't know how to get there fully
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but we're going to investigate and
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hopefully we uh see some really cool
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things
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the anchorage today
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is a little rocky we didn't expect it
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that way
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wendy was telling us the wind was going
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to blow straight at this huge mountain
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and we were going to be in the calmest
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anchorage in the world but
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uh it didn't happen so it's kind of
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wrapping around the mountains and coming
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in here so it's a little rocky
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yeah
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it's not too bad but uh it's just we
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were expecting a lake in here really
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weren't we yeah that's so that's the the
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thing but
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we're not gonna complain we're gonna go
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exploring oh it's a beautiful day
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every day is sunny in turkey at the
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moment yeah so good 31 degrees
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wow does this take you back to australia
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or what well you don't really see too
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many cows on the beach in australia but
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uh yes our farm did have cows
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that way a little bit
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yeah
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sunbathing what a life
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of the water
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these cows are just kicking back sun
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baking
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waiting for the music to arrive
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like bullets
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any cows have a better view
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going to get off the boat and walk
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but is it
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did you save it is it yeah
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yes it is
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let's go
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careful
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kawaii
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way down in there
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yep
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looks all very nice and calm and
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tranquil from up here
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yeah it's a little bit less tranquil on
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the boat but
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may have calmed down since we've been
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hiking
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maybe
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this is what we came to see husk yeah
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this is it
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not a bad view
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yeah you can imagine watching some sort
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of entertainment from up here would be
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magical
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wish they would do more stuff like that
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these days
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try this anchorage but marmaris is that
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way and we are heading
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that way towards go check just
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a little bit of limbo waiting for a
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couple of my mates your mates richard
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and nick who are coming from australia
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and they arrive on sunday so we're just
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kind of doing these ones
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yeah
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come on guys yeah that is chilling out
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in gallipoli istanbul
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murders waiting cappadocia and then yeah
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they'll fit us in
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yeah
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thanks guys but yeah we're going that
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way and um yeah go check would be good
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to explore properly it's where we bought
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kawaii so we have to return and see some
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of the people we met there it's like our
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turkish home
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you know i've been walking hard when
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i've got some of these little things in
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my socks yeah we used to call them
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farmers friends back in australia i
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don't know if they're they think their
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exact same thing that same concept on
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the farm
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is that what you called them
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out back you wouldn't know because you
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didn't live on a farm oh that is like
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such a
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horrible thing to say
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mum and dad disown her we live on the
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farm they know they know the truth
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you say it's a hobby
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my dad lots of cattle
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what clifford cattle
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ah how pretty
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she's looking pretty nice so far yeah
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going for a little swim this is the
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protected end it's the southern end
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today so
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have a look water looks very nice over
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here the rocks
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there's a nice looking beach bar over
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there
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oh yeah let's do it oh you think do ya
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after a hike up to amos on a warm
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turkish day crystal clear water is what
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we were craving timing was crucial as
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many gullets filled the bay and took the
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best spots the water as of may was fresh
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but glorious
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all right well we're leaving the
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anchorage heading back to marmaris
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how do you see the day oh it's a
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beautiful day
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as always a little bit more wind would
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be nice but uh it's a nice low sail back
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in and
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yeah we're not really too sure what wind
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we have because
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we're going back in to fix our
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instruments so
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we're going about three knots it's
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almost on the beam
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and
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yeah we're just
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cruising on in
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it's
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wasting trace up and down the mast is a
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little stressful as you need to trust
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all the equipment saying that we now had
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working wind instruments
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or did we
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and how often is the wind at zero i get
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down after all my hard work
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and i want to see a reading
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and it's at zero
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nobody else's anemometers are moving
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either
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dead calm
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when does that ever happen
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right now
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just had to show that it actually is
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working yay
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light winds and all check that out
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pretty stoked
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next week we leave the protected bay of
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marmarus in search of new bays to
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explore our friends damian and nicole
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arrive from australia before we head
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down the coast with consistent winds
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providing some great sailing we find a
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tranquil bay and enjoy the local cuisine
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before arriving in gochek where we are
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treated to some turkish hospitality
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well if you've made it this far why not
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subscribe it helps us out and it's free
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hope you enjoyed our first video back
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i'll leave you with trace making friends
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with a rabbit
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bunny rabbit underneath the boat over
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there
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and i'm gonna go and see who might like
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to eat
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um
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people
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doesn't care don't think he likes
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zucchini
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can't blame him
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success
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you