Last year, on May 12th 2018, as our plane took off from Cape Town, taking Catherine and me back to Athens to begin our summer season on Lady

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The season has come to an end for us, but not before we were able to get in one last Trash Tuesday for 2018 in Turkey. We spent the last 2 nights anchored off the west side of Gocek Adasi, an island very near to Gocek town. It's close enough so you can take your tender into Gocek, but far enough away and tucked around a corner so that you do not see the lights of the town. We arrived at dusk after a 9 hour sail from north of Bozburun near Selimiye and it was only when we wok

Our lives are dictated to by time. From the moment our alarm gives us our first fright of the day at some ungodly hour in the morning, to the moment we set it before we go to bed at night, we are living our day by the clock. When our kids were at the school-going age, the morning was one big race with time…from reluctantly waking them up from their warm beds, to getting them dressed, trying to get them to digest whatever nutritious breakfast I had concocted, getting myself re

Sadly, by this time next week, we will be moored in a marina and preparing Lady Roslyn for winter. We have loved our journey along the Turkish coastline and taking time to explore the wonderful Gulf of Gokova. After meandering along the southern shores of the Gulf for over a week, we crossed to the north side and entered the large bay of Akbuk Limani. The previous week was all about anchoring in small coves enclosed by rolling hills, densely covered in pine forests which grow

Here in Turkey it feels as though the season is starting to draw to a close. The weather continues to be beautiful - other than the scare last week of us being close to a Medicane (a Mediterranean Hurricane) which ended up veering into the Peloponnese in Greece. However, it feels much less crowded than during the height of summer and we are enjoying bay after bay all to ourselves. Our Trash Tuesday post for today comes from Degirmen Buku deep in the Gulf of Gokova. Many peopl

We've been back in Turkey for 2 weeks now but were busy with guests on board so did not have the chance to post this before now. We have cleared the trash from 2 bay's since being back and want to share the locations. After leaving Fethiye towards Gocek where we were to fetch our friends, we motored along the coast looking for a suitable anchorage. We anchored and secured 2 lines ashore on the western shore against a small cliff in the bay of Kucuk Kargi Koyu. It's a lovely a

Following on from our last post on this topic, here is our improvement tip #2 for 2018. During July, we experienced some VERY hot days along the Turquoise Coast between Gocek and the Kekova Roads in Turkey. The image below taken of the thermometer at the navigation station was average for the some of days last month, with us seeing a top temperature of 41.5° C (that's 106.7° F for you folks in the US). While we are never shy to start the generator and use the air-conditioning

We cannot believe that today we have just had the ten thousandth visitor to our website. It was started from scratch less than 2 years ago with neither of us having any prior experience on how to design, build or maintain a website. Thank you to everyone who has visited the site. Hopefully you have taken away something of interest and hopefully we can continue to engage you as we "Share the lessons we learn on our journey". Nic & Cath #LadyRoslyn #Sailing #Catamaran #Fountain