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Come on in and say hello via a 'comment'. We've cruised our Hanse 46' sailboat from UK to Egypt to the Caribbean mainly two handed from 2004 to 2008 and enjoyed every minute. We are back temporarily in the UK - but sunshine beckons us again for summer 2009.

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3rd May 2006 - Kusadasi to Turgutreis

Posted at 6:46 PM, Wednesday, May 3, 2006

Has another good sailing day following last nights BBQ organised at Kusadasi Marina.  I did take lots of pictures of tipsy people leaping around dancing - but they all appear to be pulling faces so ugly its wrong to post them here.  So heres the only two sober people on the night.

 

 

Here's another shot of Swagman at sunset, parked stern in to the end  of the main jetty.  There were no tailing lines for us in this position - we had to drop the anchor to hold our nose out.

 

 

They advised late yesterday that there was a gale force 7 forecasted for today, so several of the yachts chose to depart very early ( some went at midnight - others at 0300) to cover the 60 miles further south to Turgutreis - just to the west of Bodrum.

 

We chose to get away at daybreak - 0600 - and for the first 10 miles had light winds from behind.  We hoisted our spinnaker and held it up across the wide bay and into the Samos Straights.  We were getting radio reports back from those who left earlier, commenting on the strenght of the wind. 

 

So just in case we also found ourselves in stronger conditions once through the straight - we replaced the spinakker for our huge Code 0 headsail - and were soon moving out.

 

We personally never saw the wind rise above 26 knots on the remaining 50 miles down the coast.  But with a full main hiosted, plus the big Code 0 headsail - we were soon charging along at 8+ knots.

 

Surfed to 11 + knots several times, but it still took us until 01500 to arrive at the new marina in Turgutreis.  The facility is even bigger than I expected - and apparently well run.

 

We've elected not to do any tours tomorow - too many boat chores to compete.

 

Cheers

JOHN

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Posted by Anonymous at 11:31 AM, Friday, May 5, 2006

Hi John, it looks like you have had a interesting day. 26 knts wind and up with the code 0. Anyway I also have replaced al the sails with sails from Quantum. They do greath! Main, bladejib, jib 105% and asymetrical. Keep us posted with your adventure!

Frank - eternal flame
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Posted by swagman at 5:37 AM, Saturday, May 6, 2006

Hi Frank,

Yup - it worked well although Quantum would kill me if they knew we flew it in those winds.

My rationale was (1) we really wanted to overtake a well sailed boat in front of us (2) our spinnaker is too big for the two of us to handle in 25 knots plus winds (3) if the Code 0 limit is 15 nots as Quantum say, then my logic said that provided we could get 10 knots boatspeed in the 25 knots of wind, the apparent wind is back inside the acceptable limit!

Anyway - only issue was trying to furl it up when the breeze was still strong - it worked really well otherwise - and the new bowsprit did not move one centimetre!

JOHN
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