Skippers birthday cruise.

After sailing into 25 knots for three hours we arrive back at Capitain Ibrahim's Cokertme around 9am and even though we are tied up its still very bumpy on the yacht as the winds are blowing in the bay all day.

We have a delicious lunch and decide to walk it off  around the bay, it's beautiful.  

While we are relaxing on land we are able to connect to Zane's live stream beats and are so glad to hear from him with his shout out to us.

We met a few people who finally tell us a few truths about sailing in Turkey.  Firstly the winds are very tricky and this is normal for the area Spring through to Autumn, and the southerlies are unseasonably late.  We just seem to have no luck so far with the winds.  Basically it blows Beaufort 4 s and 5s within the Gulf of the Carian Coast.

We enjoy our meals here and have the laundry done while we wait out the weather.  We depart Saturday at 3.30am for our next leg and fingers are crossed that the weather forecast is correct. We are leaving under a full moon which guides us and gives us information about the weather ahead.

We are in luck as the seas are pretty calm for the first four hours as forecast and we have a pleasant enough  seven hour trip to Datca south east of the Datca Promontory.  Datca is a beautiful village and harbour and we are very happy to be tied off here.  Unfortunately there Sunsail charter flotilla is arriving and we think has fouled our anchor.  Anyway we will deal with this tomorrow.

I haven't forgotten; but Greg has decided to delay his birthday celebrations until Sunday so he can enjoy himself.  Tomorrow we are heading to Bozburum to celebrate at the Yacht Club, reservations have already been made and its only three hours from here.  It should be a very special birthday dinner; can't wait and hopefully an exciting F1 at Monaco.