Our friend, Tazeena, who we visited in Key Haven, was back
at Yat Marine and after getting a new motor in her beautiful yacht, Bathsheba, she was back on the
water. Bathsheba is a Freedom 33 Cat-ketch, quite an unusual boat with
unstayed rigs, masts made of carbon fiber and wrap around sails with wishbones
instead of booms, like a windsurf board.
Tazeena bought the yacht new in 1982 and still at 79 can sail
her single-handed but much prefers crew.
So she invited Bob and I to join her in a two day shake-down cruise
before she headed out to Greece. We
jumped at the chance to see how this pretty and uniquely rigged boat sailed. She sailed beautifully and was so easy to
tack – no rolling in of genoas – just steer where you want to go and the
wishbone does everything for you.
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| Bathsheba under sail |
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| Bob enjoying the ride |
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| Tazeena at the helm |
Our first night we stopped at the lovely bay of Serçe. It was a quiet, tiny fishing village with
nothing but a small pontoon, some moorings and a single over-priced restaurant.
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| Serçe harbour |
The next day we rounded the Bozburun peninsula along with
about 50 other boats heading to Simi, Bozburun, Datça and beyond.
We headed up to Bozburun harbour having a
lovely downwind sail.
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| Bob in manly pose |
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| The fleet behind us |
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| Gull wing going up to Bozburun with the wind behind |
After an early dinner and a great few days of sailing we
caught a bus back to Marmaris – two days sailing but only 1 hour and 20 minutes
by road!
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