We met Ian and Yvonne in the Hisaronu Korfezi, a large bay to the north and north east of the Greek island of Symi.The bay has numerous anchorages many of which we'd see in the next few weeks. We managed a lunchtime reunion and swim before heading into Orhaniye. Possibly the only time you'll see Crazydream anchored with a Sunsail boat alongside!! We even moored on the Sunsail pontoon and became honorary flotilla members for a few days. It was great to catch up and reminisce over the trip along the Portuguese coast and our winter in Portimao. We followed the flotilla over to Symi to re-stock on beer, wine and pork but parted ways after that as they were going to windward!!
Back in Orhaniye Rashit of Anil Marine canvas work having measured for our spray hood fitted the finished article but sadly needed a little tweaking and would be back in a few days for the final fitting. We hung around in the anchorage meeting up with boats we hadn't seen in a while, needless to say a few sore heads all round. Orhaniye is an idyllic anchorage with numerous restaurant jetties, mini markets, a chandlery and weekly market. There's also a marina if you feel the need but with a quote of over 3000 euros for 6 months winter on the hard for Crazydream we didn't use it. We waited around in the area for the Spray hood and also Kathryn, aka windy witch who was joining us for 10 days. Both arrived on the same day, Spray hood fitting very well along with new hatch covers and a steering wheel cover, tarting (whoops G says smartening) the boat up nicely.
With the boat stocked and sea worthy we set off to different anchorages around Hisaronu Korfezi. Windy witch was not living up to her name and we had some pleasant light wind sails covering over 100nm in 9 days. Sods law as Kathryn left the wind increased!
We'd come to the end of our 3 month visa in Turkey and decided we'd head back to Greece and the Dodecanese islands in the hope that they might be abit cooler and to meet up with yet more cruising friends who are in the area
