27 foot sailing cruiser -suitable for anchoring in Turkey?

[zeehond]

Thinking of going to turkey to spend a season on my Jeanneau and want to ask whether such a light cruiser ( quite frisky at anchor) is suitable for what I understand are busy and quite deep anchorages? Planning to come across next spring and wanted to go Bodrum to Marmaris area. All responses will be welcome with facts about suitable anchores and length of chain. Are there any recent changes to legislation for Uk registered boats? How are prices these days , marinas , cost of living..? Any new restrictions?

[mandlmaunder]

if filled with enough concrete it will make an excellent anchor.

The secret to anchoring success is to over size your anchor and chain, if you are worried that your anchor is not adequate then go up a size or two.
All boats will sail around when the wind picks up so it wont only be you sawing around.
Now you started another how to stay still thread I'm going to get me hard hat and gas mask and watch with baited hooks the results.
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[webcraft]

[ QUOTE ]
The secret to anchoring success is to over size your anchor and chain, if you are worried that your anchor is not adequate then go up a size or two.


[/ QUOTE ] Or . . . invest in a decent anchor of the right size that will be easy to lift and that will set in most seabeds and always put out as much scope as you can in the circumstances.

I would go for 8mm chain and a 10Kg Spade or Rocna, or same chain and an 15Kg Delta. As much chain as you can fit with enough space in the locker left over for 20-30m of rope for really deep anchorages.

Upsizing your chain will give you backache and you will get less in your anchor locker.

General rule for deep anchoring: 25m plus the water depth.

We have a light-ish 27ft boat with a 10Kg Spade and 33m of 8m chain spliced to 23m 12mm anchorplait. We have never dragged, and have often been anchored in 25-30 knots and/or situations where the tide has reversed and the anchor has to reset. We sleep soundly.

- W

[Moscowman100]

Add a good long floating stern line - 50m is not too long You will generally anchor in 10-15 m water so size your rode accordingly. Holding is generally ok but a "pointy" type anchor is good to penetrate weeds etc.

[MASH]

Seadog, why should there be a problem with boat size? Just anchor where you can - Smaller boats have the advantage of getting into smaller places so it works both ways. There are loads of suitable places that no one ever goes to if you take the trouble to search them out. Google Earth to spot potential places, remote bays/coves with shallow water show up well. As said above a good long floating stern line is essential, and preferably a choice of anchors. I like to double the stern line around something (maybe a becket around a rock) and bring it back aboard so I can slip it in a hurry if it blows up at night as it sometimes does.

Some places are busy, either shoe-horn yourself in or avoid. Up to you. Beware finding a nice empty spot and having a vast noisy gulet or a 50' Bavaria full of bellowing Germans park 5 metres away and begin a party. Be prepared to make an Agincourt salute and move. Gulets and disco-blaring grockle boats can be very aggressive in barging their way in to "their" anchoring spots - and are sometimes handled in an utterly unseamanlike manner - beware.

Nothing has changed re bureaucracy recently providing you don't weigh more than 10T for the Transit Log. Suggest you have something official to prove you weigh less - bill of sale, Part One Cert etc.

Prices. Rocketing. Still pretty good value, but becoming noticeably more costly every visit. Cheap chandlery and services/work especially. Inflation is high which accounts for some, but they are getting wise to the idea that Western tourists will pay absolutely anything if asked with a straight face.

Marina prices? Going up faster than you'd believe possible. Mine have doubled in two years, but still way below rates much further West. Most marinas post price list tables on the net. Look at Kos too, that's a nice one. There are many smaller yards/mini-marinas where it is possible to leave a boat too, so don't fixate on the big ones.

If you buy local produce from local shops and stick to local as opposed to touristy restaurants it's going to be cheap. Use local markets - find where and when.

Come on over, you'll love it!

PM me for more.

[zeehond]

Thanks for all good advise . Just one more question. We have heard from Americans that there are nowadays agents getting involved and you have to pay a certain fee. Anybody any idea about this issue?

[MASH]

Agents don't apply to boats under 10T (though they'll still try to tell you otherwise, I expect!). Look at the checking into Turkey thread - it's there chapter and verse!