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 […]
It’s always good to have the safety and protection of a marina but after staying in Kaş marina for 2 weeks we were ready for a nice quiet, clear water bay. We untied our lines and set off 14nm along the coast to Yeşilköy, an anchorage that we stopped in last year on our way […]
With visitors on their way we spent the day preparing the boat to make space for everyone, the front cabin is always used as a storage area so that had to be cleared in order to use the bed. With children arriving, netting was attached on the guard rails around the boat. Last year it […]
Finally it was time to slip our lines and leave Finike marina. Before we set off there was just a few routine checks to be done, one being the sails. We had left the sails on through the winter so on a nice windless morning we unfurled them to have a look how they had […]
When we arrived at Finike for the winter, it was nice to meet up again with some of our friends from Sicily. Having discovered that Finike is very traditional and mainly dry town, it wasn’t long before we had organised a minibus to take us on a trip to the local winery near Elmali. On […]
Sailing ZigZag 