Summertime Voyage

Skip to content Yacht Summertime Voyages Four go Greek It seems that there has been some sort of failure with Blogspot. My last post appeared to publish as normal but when it was viewed as a web page, the title and intro were visible on the site, but when opened up the text and pictures had vanished. I have tried to correct this but to no avail. So we seem to have successfully migrated to WordPress. This is a bit more complex for me to use but I will just have to learn. I think there had been some public concern that the disappearance of the post was to avoid the poor taste of publishing a post in which we sunk and perished, but not so! We were due to sign out of Turkey and emigrate to Greece on 1 st  May. We have previously used Mr Gurkan Demitras of perayachting in Bozburun and contacted him again. The 1 st  May was the first day of the police imigration service in Bozburun opening for the season so that all worked well. High winds were forecast over the next few days so we moved to

Something seems to have gone wrong with my blogspot. For the time being I have migrated to wordpress. The link is  https://summertimeyacht.wordpress.com/ Colin

Wet toilet paper Colin - 01/05/2023 So what happened to your Dynamic Duo and the flooding boat! Jumping catfish, they were in a pickle. I rushed below and inspected all the seacocks. We have a lot of through hull fittings, four in each heads, two under the sink in the main cabin and two supplying the engine. In addition there are various other fittings for the bilge pumps, engine exhaust, speed transducer, heater, scupper drains, vents for the various fuel, water and waste tanks. As we had been sailing well heeled, any of these could have been under water, however the most inportant are the permanently submerged ones. I went round them all and switched them off, opened up the engine compartment to see if there were any leaks there and drained the bilge with the electric bilge pump. Up came all the floor boards to inspect the keel bolts. At this stage I had not identified the source but it was clearly quite a substantial leak as the ingress had been significant. Well heeled. Having done

So what happened to your Dynamic Duo and the flooding boat! Jumping catfish, they were in a pickle. I rushed below and inspected all the seacocks. We have a lot of through hull fittings, four in each heads, two under the sink in the main cabin and two supplying the engine. In addition there are various other fittings for the bilge pumps, engine exhaust, speed transducer, heater, scupper drains, vents for the various fuel, water and waste tanks. As we had been sailing well heeled, any of these could have been under water, however the most inportant are the permanently submerged ones. I went round them all and switched them off, opened up the engine compartment to see if there were any leaks there and drained the bilge with the electric bilge pump. Up came all the floor boards to inspect the keel bolts. At this stage I had not identified the source but it was clearly quite a substantial leak as the ingress had been significant. Well heeled. Having done all this there did not seem to be a