61 Isn’t that a beautifull present!
It took me some time to come to this point: I am going to live on the boat while my eldest son Bart and his wife will live in my house in Holland. Wonderfull that they will use my uninhabited house but there is quite some cleaning up to do before they will be able to live here. Hopefully there is enough time, I will return to the boat in Gulluk Turkey in 5 weeks. Clearly a big task as all rooms are full with stuff collected over the past 40 years….
Need a binder?...25 years of old paper
Terribly sorry to leave all that junk for my kids to cleanup
My new little room and my last night in Holland for now
Coronatest number 10 before the flight
Feels good to be back in Gulluk Turkey
But its cold here...the new bimini is great job keeps me warm it was 3 degrees at night
Anchor watch.. 30 knots on a lee shore
The rain brought sand from the Sahara
Plenty of new projects but make sure you eat well
And a sundowner before dinner
New gas fittings brought from Reunion
New JBL speakers
Fishfinder repair
Big improvement that new LCD screen
The radar I repaired already in Holland
It works! Can see mountains far away and the ship echos align with their AIS location
Boat speed electronics repair, drawing its circuit diagram
New expansion vessel for the drinking water circuit
Sanding 100 white caps for the genoa traveller track
The result
Every year cleaning and greasing the winches
Lucky, I like diving
and have a compressor and diving bottles on board
So, every few months I scape the barnacles from the underside of the boat
Gulluk town, no tourists
What a privilege to be here
Nice walks too
Covid cases soon rose to 60.000 infections per day so Turkey in lockdown, stayed at this safe anchorage for 40 days
Same anchorage, nobody there
And it seemed to work: the number of offical cases was back to 5000 a day. Moved just around the corner, at anchor near the anchient Greek town of Iasos
This city was once completely surrounded by a wall until the stones where reused to build the port of Constantinopel. Here is one of the few remaining pieces
This amphitheater was still in tact in 1880 but also here the stones where reused to enlarge the port of Constantinopel
Walled street lines with pillars
It is here, the heart of politics, where the city council met
The main entrance gate, on the side of the harbour. More info on: https://iasoskazisi.selcuk.edu.tr/en/dahafazla.html
The old port of the Greek town of Iasos. The Turkish government wanted to make a seaport here, but the people of the town said No: we want to keep it as it is
Also no tourists near Port Iasos
Stocking up already for the journey to Ireland
When the fresh food is gone it will be time for lentils
And chickpeas and beans
A fine start but
will buy much more for the upcoming journey.......
