Two meters under the narrow streets of Bodrum lies 5000 years of history. In ancient times Bodrum was known as Halicarnassus, it was the birthplace of Heredotus and the site of King Mausolus’ Tomb. The city thrived under the rule of Mausolus and his wife Artemisia II (also his sister). After Mausolus’ death in 353 […]
As our journey continued north we headed towards the the long narrow Datça peninsula. There are many small bays and coves along the peninsula, the main town Datça, lies on the southern shore which was our next stop. The heat is now a stifling 40°C but whilst out on the water we had a nice […]
After almost a month, we finally left Marmaris and motored out of the bay in flat calm water. It was very hot with a light breeze, unfortunately not enough to sail but we were very happy to be underway again. We headed west along the barren and rocky coast towards the tip of the peninsula […]
Paul had spent a few days out in the anchorage then went back in to the marina ready for my return. It was nice to have (almost) all the jobs completed and ZigZag nice and clean. The national holiday was now over and everyone was back at work, so the engineers returned to investigate the […]
Work on ZigZag continued this week, we had boat parts everywhere, all the floorboards were up and workmen coming and going. Everyone that we have spoken to who have had work done in Turkey have found that it took a lot longer than scheduled so I decided to take an impromptu visit back to the […]
It was extremely hot in the boatyard and watching one person scrape all of the old antifoul off in 3 days bought back memories of when we did this in Greece back in 2020. We both worked at it for a week trying to scrape and sand the old antifoul off. Our efforts were nothing […]
Sailing ZigZag 