We’ve heard that the Turkish Ministry of Interior has eased its position regarding residency permits for cruisers. In a document published 14/5/12 they openly state that cruisers are beneficial to their economy, and that’s the reason for the change…
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GREEK ISLANDS OF TILOS AND NISIROS
All is going well – summer is now starting to settle with temps around 25d, although the sea is still a slightly breath-taking 21d. We’ve had a week of unsettled, windy weather causing us to pay close attention to the forecasts, as out here in the …
FIRST SQUALLY THUNDERSTORM OF THE YEAR
Photos for this posting to be added in a few daysI forgot to mention in the last update that here in the Med we get a lot of quite violent thunderstorms (far more than we are accustomed to in New Zealand), especially during Spring and Autumn. These are…
MED MONSTERS OF THE DEEP
Several days ago another Nordhavn came into the bay we were anchored in – the first time in over three years of cruising. This was a Russian-owned, three year-old, 85-footer, with five full-time crew, and powered by twin Detroit diesels. Cruising at …
THE SPY CONNECTION AND ENVOY WINE
We left the marina last Thursday for a four day cruise around the very picturesque Marmaris Bay local area in great weather, and plenty of swimming.On our first day out we launched our large RIB, weighing 350kg, from the boat deck using the boom winch….
OUR FIRST UNEXPECTED PROBLEM
Here is a great view we get during our morning walks.Now we do have an unexpected problem – with the water maker (see under Technical) – so our departure has been held up for a few days until about the middle of the coming week. But meantime we’r…
BATTERIES DUE IN A FEW DAYS AND THEN WE’RE OFF
With this posting I’m having problems with spacings for paragraphs, photos and photo captions.On Wednesday morning we had a southerly gale here with winds up to about 50 knots. The normally flat-calm sea to the south of the marina raged with breaking 2…
ENVOY ABOUT A WEEK AWAY FROM CRUISING
Things are going great as we complete our second week since returning to Marmaris. Our only hiccup is that the eight new “Deka” batteries, imported from USA for our 12V house and 24V bow thruster battery banks are held up in Customs, and nobody can…
“ROGUE” WAVES & ENVOY NEARLY READY TO LAUNCH
We are both well here in Marmaris, Southern Turkey – the weather is mostly fine and sunny in the low 20 degC, and progress getting Envoy ready to launch is on schedule..ROGUE WAVESThis paragraph about the sea from a Clive Cussler novel appealed to me:
BACK ABOARD ENVOY ON MARMARIS
We had a long, but event-free journey from Auckland, and arrived back in Marmaris, southern Turkey, on Saturday morning, finding that everything aboard Envoy, out of the water on the hardstand was pretty how much we’d left her four months ago – clean…
