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Tuesday, 20 October 2015

Arrived in Marmaris (the start)

Not sure where to start, but it's been a little manic getting here! We finally made it to Marmaris, absolutely exhausted after all the planning over the past few months. (Not for the faint hearted this venture, if you've got a dicky heart, don't do it! ). First night onboard we slept rough with no pillows and just a coat as a blanket! First morning the sun was out ( which helped!) We stood on the deck of our new boat 'Christina' and had time to take it all in, we'd finally made it! The boat was as beautiful as we had remembered and all our hard work getting here over the last few months was definitely worth it. But still more to do as she needed completely kitting out from scratch! We needed a kettle ASAP! 

We are planning to set off from Marmaris in about two weeks time so there's been plenty to do. First day was at the Bizarres getting stores, supplies and kitting the boat out. Second day we headed out to look for a bed shop. The mattress's onboard are rock hard and we're both having trouble sleeping, they don't do memory foam in Turkey! Friendly guys out here, the man from the hardware shop gave us a lift back to the boat with all our stuff and another guy in the bed shop gave us a piece of foam for our bed on the condition he can come down tomorrow to measure up for awnings!! We also bought two foldaway bikes this morning which are great fun and ideal for getting about. 

The yacht broker came to see us  this morning to finalise all the paperwork for owning and moving 'Christina' out of Marmaris and on to Greece. Quite a complicated venture! Changing the boat from a German flag to English, setting up a ships log,  proving VAT payed, copies of  skippers certificates and so on! When we sail out of here alGl paperwork has to be in place....or we can't go! 

Weathers been great again today, around 28c ! (On October 19th 2015), We had a chance to get some of the sails up as the winds were light and they didn't look too bad so we're now itching to get her out into the bay and give her a 'Shake Down'.

I will upload some images when I've figured out how too!

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