39. Sailing from Greece to Turkey | Boat Problems | Sailing around the world | Sailing Kawai

Last time on Kauai we took advantage of the favourable winds and set sail from Paros to the popular party island of Mykonos. We are fortunate to experience this charming island out of season and have the anchorage to ourselves. We are able to wander the streets with the locals and are pleasantly surprised when some of them treat us to their Greek cuisine and ouzo at dinner. Yum us guys! This time we depart Mykonos as our time in Greece is coming to an end. While crossing the Cyclades en route to our final Greek destination of Patmos we meet a sleepy whale before discovering we have a battery problem. Three months in Greece sadly comes to an end but we are excited to begin a new adventure in Turkey. All right well we're out of Mykonos. We are. We've spent longer here than we expected and now we are off to Patmos, last day in Greece. Geez. Yeah, Turkey, here we come. There's a bit of crazy weather happening in the Med at the moment. Yeah, over in Italy in Croatia area. And the Ionian. It's pretty well just the Cyclades for a change that's not crazy so. But it's still been, it's been blowy but not. It's been like 50, 60 over in those other areas but this has only been 20 to 30 so we're feeling quite lucky. Yeah, we are. There's uh it's meant to be 30 currently but uh we got two. Our 65 nautical mile trip would take us past Paros and Naxos to the south and Ikaria to the north before we would anchor and check out of Greece in Patmos. i'm saying to you because i'm looking in your eyes you're looking past my eyes but i'm just trying why are you staring at the door that come in the way shit that's huge i'm a little bit scared now saw a massive whale babe look at the hole it's left you look to be gazing off there in the distance what are you fascinated with over there oh i'm just checking out Ikaria we almost got to go there but due to weather conditions we didn't and a skeptical anchorage so uh yeah we didn't get to go there but i really wanted to go there because i've uh heard a lot about it and it's just checking it out it's quite roughness yeah people have got to be tough over there only motoring motor sailing can't see much yeah it's a bugger um very disappointing windy has told us between 12 to 30 knots today depending on between wind and wind gusts and the most we've had is nine we arrived in Patmos in the dark and with no other boats in the bay found a nice spot to anchor after anchoring we headed down below and were met with an unappealing egg-like smell we were aware this could be a symptom of a problem with the battery after checking our monitors all seemed to be okay but within hours were woken by the battery alarm showing low voltage with our Schenger visa expiring in one day we would need to find a new starter battery quickly so we didn't overstay our welcome in Greece. Kauai still all right down there? yep she's with her goats on the foreshore got company good well tiny down there yeah we pulled her up down there we've been to see two electricians none of which are around today day off tomorrow saturday we were thinking get it done friday before saturday now the only problem we do have is that we're meant to be out of greece today so we're gonna have to just have a chat and see what they have to say at the customs office or we just sneak back onto shore don't tell anyone there's so many yachts yep tourists everywhere so yeah we're still gonna have one more shot and there's a guy that's in Athens who's coming back tomorrow he said he can bring us a starter battery back so it's a big hope yeah but it might be our only option no one else is here so fortunately Spiros arrived from Athens the next morning with a new starter battery and was so kind and helpful thanks Spiros you are a legend we had a good morning we had Spiros from in town in Patmos come out with these battery that he got for us yeah he picked one up came down here the winds have calmed it was blowing an absolute gale and i had to pick him up here with the battery on that little point on the edge and yeah took him out to Kauai and through the waves through the waves battery sorted and now we can leave and head to Turkey so we're pretty glad it's all done he was a champ though wasn't he it was a real champ we got back to the boat saturated and thought oh no he's not gonna gonna want to come out to our boat and he was really good yep just left his shoes on the end he goes i'll leave my shoes here i come and uh yeah sorted it out really quick he checked it and uh yeah Kauai is all ready to go and obviously now the winds are gone yeah it doesn't look like what it did there's some cute little cats with you you fluffy thing you gorgeous oh yeah you know it well batteries are all fixed and we're checking out of Greece all right let's go all right we're off again where are we off to now we've just come from police all right with a document to check out of Greece that's the plan anyway yeah and we've had our passports stamped we are back going back to the boat and we are off we've all signed out we're pretty happy our 44 nautical mile trip would take us from the western side of Patmos to Didim in Turkey where we would check into the country what a cracking start to the morning all the pinks it's beautiful and the cora up on the hill yeah the lights and the whiteness it's just enormous so what's so special about today it's a turkey it's real it's farting it's uh it's not that we like want to get out of Greece we love Greece but we have to love Turkey so we've got to go because uh our 90 days is up i think i think we're into our 91st or 92nd day we are in the passport control section just waiting for somebody to stamp us in and uh come across something unusual at passport control jace thought it was a turkey at first i did chickens well we've arrived to turkey and uh pretty excited we got here maybe an hour and a half ago two hours ago yep and we went into the building where apparently everyone is and no one was there there was one of the coast guard guys there and he called said i'll call someone was surprised that there was no one in passport control he called someone and a guy rocked up in uh distractis casual sunday attire and uh said he was an agent and we needed to use him to check in so um yeah we sat with him and he took our passports to a guy cooking a barbecue he came to the he was actually the passport officer and he brought us to the passport control office and stamped us in which was pretty cool different experience yeah it was and the main reason we couldn't do it ourselves is that it is the what date is it today uh 17th of november out of season and it's a sunday as well yeah and customs aren't here anymore well at this time so we're in didham and as of the first of october they head somewhere else about an hour from here so we would have to uh hire a car yeah and there was no one at passport control anyway to stamp us in so we would have been illegal yeah so it all worked out well in the end and we've unfortunately not checked in yet but uh and our agent took us to migros and we got some apples yeah we love these beers turkish beers so we've been missing it so we uh gonna celebrate tonight with a couple of beers and uh yeah just happy to be in turkey well we just arrived to our new anchorage here in turkey uh 4 a.m start so uh probably looking pretty shabby right now but uh that's all good we had to leave our anchorage near the marina near where we checked in we were waiting there for uh our agent to bring our documents back to us overnight at 4 a.m we got woken by large waves and um strong winds coming into the anchorage so we had to get out of there and we knew it was coming but we were just hoping it wouldn't get too bad until midday when he was bringing our paperwork back to us so yeah there was a big storm and there was also a big storm headed for us so and the anchorage had a massive fetch in front of it so the swell could have got very large in there so we got out of there while we could and we came nine nautical miles away to this lovely little anchorage where it's blowing seven knots so beautiful here it is very nice it's very different looks like lots of resorts or something there's a mosque and then just all the same similar looking houses cheers to turkey cheers to turkey it's been a really good day i showered today what a day that's a good day and um yeah we checked out the little town over there we're just having a sundowner watching uh obviously the sun go down so we're moving tomorrow did you say you showered today all i can see is the silhouette of your crazy hairdo well that's part of the reason his hair's got a whole lot of business going on at the moment it does i'm doing this just to spite your mum crazy hair i've grown my beard out i know she loves it she does she loves it a lot you're in the middle of dinner there what just happened well we were in our quiet time having food we were watching a bit of netflix how to get away with murder and um there was a spotlight on the back of the boat a siren siren came on that was the coast guard so it's always a little bit daunting when the coast guard comes and shines that big light six men um why we probably felt a little bit weird about it is because we tried to check in on sunday and there was actually nobody there and today is tuesday um so we got an agent on the day he's the paperwork he organized it for today but we are going to collect it tomorrow so um we could have really gone back to diddam today to get it because the weather's come down but we didn't we organized it for tomorrow morning to collect it so because we thought the anchorage might still be quite rolly yeah we don't have a blue card because there was no harbour master in the office at that point um i don't know i i guess i was just a what might happen how they just arrived on a really dark night in the furthest corner of a bay with our we've got the worst mast line in history and they found us so and there was a little sailboat today that cruise passed and um like really close to us and he was videoing us yeah it was really weird and um it just felt strange so yeah yeah i thought we might be getting set up for a fine and i worked out they left we they made sure that we put the turkish flag up we only had the yellow flag um so we were quick to put the turkish flag up very quick you almost fainted on the deck i think i was so stressed yeah it was a different experience um it's not what i expect i really haven't seen him yeah well i did say that guy oh i hope he's not sending videos back to the coast guard and you were like as if i did not say that pretty much exactly anyway we will be back there at 9 a.m sharp to get it and our blue card all right let's eat our food and back to normality well it is a gorgeous morning here in didim in turkey uh we are situated in our anchorage which is right outside of d marine in didim was very convenient anchorage because our agent is located in the marina and also the customs port police and the harbour master are in building just over there so it's all very handy and this morning we cruised into our agent and picked up our transit log and we also bought the blue card from the marina which is very important the coast guard definitely made a point of us getting that so we got that this morning this is what they look like that's the blue card it was 11.50 turkish lira which is pretty cheap about three aussie dollars and that's the transit log so we are ready to roll and today we are off to an anchorage near bodrum next time on kawaii we leave didim and sail south along the turkish coast stopping in at picturesque little towns on our way to our final destination for the season marmara thanks so much for watching and subscribing to join us on our journey if you 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