The Catamaran Adventures of Noel and Ceu

Archive for September, 2013

Current Location: Dalyan River, TurkeyCurrent Position: 36 47.89 N 028 36.16 E Click to view map. Distance sailed since last post: 16 nautical miles. View the map of our voyage track hereWe left the nice town of Marmaris just before lunch on Sunday Sept 28th en route to Ekincik. It was fun beating through the (Click to Read More...)
Current Location: Marmaris, TurkeyCurrent Position: 36 51.05 N 028 16.17 E Click to view map. Distance sailed since last post: 8 nautical miles. View the map of our voyage track hereWe were leaving the ancient town of Knidos on our last post. Well, we have since traveled a few more miles and visited more beautiful (Click to Read More...)
Hot in Marmaris and becoming a Turkish resident The reason we paid a visit to Marmaris by traveling inland and not waiting to sail there is because we had a strategy. We needed to apply for Turkish residency and it takes 2 weeks to complete. It will take us now 2 weeks to sail around (Click to Read More...)
Current Location: Orhaniye, TurkeyCurrent Position: 36 45.99 N 028 7.65 E Click to view map. Distance sailed since last post: 36 nautical miles. View the map of our voyage track hereAbout two years ago someone in Turkey had a bright idea. They were concerned about pollution from all the boat traffic, especially in the Marmaris (Click to Read More...)
Current Location: Knidos, TurkeyCurrent Position: 36 41.08 N 027 22.56 E Click to view map. Distance sailed since last post: 44 nautical miles. View the map of our voyage track hereOn my last post I didn’t have the photos ready to show off the finished work on the table. While I was gone Noel was (Click to Read More...)
Current Location: Cleopatra's Beach, Sehir Adasi, TurkeyCurrent Position: 36 59.6 N 028 12.22 E Click to view map. Distance sailed since last post: 34 nautical miles. View the map of our voyage track hereLegend has it that Anthony and Cleopatra loved this beach, and so she had her ships bring over some nice fine sand (Click to Read More...)
It was really nice to go home in the Summer. For the last 3 years we always went home in the Winter. Winter is nice too, because you get to enjoy the ski hills, but I was just so excited to be back and admire the truly beautiful place we live in. I am talking (Click to Read More...)
Most of the time the concern is that the anchor doesn’t stay where you put it. Sometimes it is the other way around. We were all set to leave from Asin Limani. It was very calm, so we had the mainsail up already. The engines were checked. The instruments were on. It was time to (Click to Read More...)
Current Location: Asin Limani, TurkeyCurrent Position: 37 16.71 N 027 35.55 E Click to view map. Distance sailed since last post: 93 nautical miles. View the map of our voyage track hereAfter nearly a month at anchor in Teos Limani while Josh came over and learnt to windsurf, and Ceu went to the Big Fat (Click to Read More...)