http://www.followtheboat.com Tales (not just) from the high seas Tue, 07 Feb 2012 11:30:12 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.followtheboat.com/2010/06/13/yacht-marina-manager-killed-in-shooting/ http://www.followtheboat.com/2010/06/13/yacht-marina-manager-killed-in-shooting/#comments Sun, 13 Jun 2010 17:15:52 +0000 Jamie http://www.followtheboat.com/?p=20106 In case our yotting friends haven't heard the shocking news, we received an email this evening forwarded on by Gaby and Paul, who are based in Yacht Marina, Marmaris, Turkey. Yacht Marina is where Liz and I wintered in 2007-08. The email reads thus:]]> http://www.followtheboat.com/2010/06/13/yacht-marina-manager-killed-in-shooting/feed/ 11 http://www.followtheboat.com/2009/01/24/a-tale-of-two-cities/ http://www.followtheboat.com/2009/01/24/a-tale-of-two-cities/#comments Sat, 24 Jan 2009 12:08:35 +0000 Jamie http://www.followtheboat.com/?p=4374 It doesn't seem to matter where you are this weekend: Turkey, England, Germany... it's wet wherever you go. If the weather's not ripping pontoons apart in Marmaris it's holding up traffic on the M25 and making the autobahn a dangerous place to travel. For those who haven't seen it we have some video evidence of the damage that wreaked havoc across Marmaris, recorded by Mike of 'Roam', hot off the press. In stark contrast to that we have a great movie of 'Ilios', 'Viva Solo', 'Esper', 'Full Flight' and 'Lady Jessie' all demonstrating what we like doing best. Any opportunity to send Liz off up into the air attached to a bit of string , camcorder in hand, has got to be worth the effort and she captured some fantastic video clips, which we present to you here. A pleasant musical refrain replaces the dirty-mouthed Liz battling with a shaky video camera.]]> http://www.followtheboat.com/2009/01/24/a-tale-of-two-cities/feed/ 19 http://www.followtheboat.com/2008/08/15/can-someone-please-turn-the-oven-down/ http://www.followtheboat.com/2008/08/15/can-someone-please-turn-the-oven-down/#comments Fri, 15 Aug 2008 12:39:34 +0000 Jamie http://www.followtheboat.com/?p=4078 We've been chilling out in some beautiful places though, taking in Kas, Kastelorizon, Kalkan and other places beginning with 'K', with plenty of pics to accompany stories of ancient Lycian tombs and angry French cons.]]> http://www.followtheboat.com/2008/08/15/can-someone-please-turn-the-oven-down/feed/ 0 http://www.followtheboat.com/2008/06/14/start-me-up/ http://www.followtheboat.com/2008/06/14/start-me-up/#comments Sat, 14 Jun 2008 16:55:17 +0000 Millie The Cat http://www.followtheboat.com/?p=3559 I am still cock-a-hoop about having the whole boat to myself and the total attention of both of my parents all of the time. It's great. They can be a bit over-protective sometimes though and seem to think that I'll fall overboard at any second... pur-lease, I am a salty-sea-cat these days and I know what's what.]]> http://www.followtheboat.com/2008/06/14/start-me-up/feed/ 0 http://www.followtheboat.com/2008/06/11/skopia-limani-one-great-big-playground/ http://www.followtheboat.com/2008/06/11/skopia-limani-one-great-big-playground/#comments Wed, 11 Jun 2008 12:56:45 +0000 Jamie http://www.followtheboat.com/?p=4086 Regular readers of FTB will be familiar with the term 'The Black Hole of Marmaris', a term invented to describe the fate of the majority of boats who enter the bay and never leave, for one reason or another. Well, we've finally done it: Esper has left the building! ]]> http://www.followtheboat.com/2008/06/11/skopia-limani-one-great-big-playground/feed/ 0 http://www.followtheboat.com/2008/06/05/leaving-marmaris-for-gocek/ http://www.followtheboat.com/2008/06/05/leaving-marmaris-for-gocek/#comments Thu, 05 Jun 2008 15:59:32 +0000 Jamie http://www.followtheboat.com/?p=3530 I can only assume it was the sudden shock of my body having to do physical exercise, whilst flexing my mental muscle over simple navigational tasks, all for the first time in a number of months. Jees, I'm both physically deformed and mentally retarded.]]> http://www.followtheboat.com/2008/06/05/leaving-marmaris-for-gocek/feed/ 0 http://www.followtheboat.com/2008/06/04/back-to-pupa-good-holding-bad-germans/ http://www.followtheboat.com/2008/06/04/back-to-pupa-good-holding-bad-germans/#comments Wed, 04 Jun 2008 15:52:05 +0000 Jamie http://www.followtheboat.com/?p=3528 A dragging boat is not a pretty sight, especially when it's your own. It's even worse when your outboard has only half the revs it's supposed to and, like a scene from a Hitchcock thriller, the more you rev, the faster your boat drags.]]> http://www.followtheboat.com/2008/06/04/back-to-pupa-good-holding-bad-germans/feed/ 0 http://www.followtheboat.com/2008/05/31/escape-from-eternity/ http://www.followtheboat.com/2008/05/31/escape-from-eternity/#comments Sat, 31 May 2008 15:45:45 +0000 Jamie http://www.followtheboat.com/?p=3524 My last weekend, however, was marred somewhat by a couple of idiots I met in the bar on Friday. New boat owners hailing from Essex and London they had nothing good to say about the sailing community. Or Turks for that matter. I sat and listened as they slagged off Turkish workers for being lazy, and yotties who help each other only for personal gain. Eh?]]> http://www.followtheboat.com/2008/05/31/escape-from-eternity/feed/ 0 http://www.followtheboat.com/2008/04/04/gwen-of-kw/ http://www.followtheboat.com/2008/04/04/gwen-of-kw/#comments Fri, 04 Apr 2008 09:13:22 +0000 Jamie http://www.followtheboat.com/?p=2091 Gwen is a first generation Swedish American, though she does now claim to be Canadian: “Since Bush came to power I refuse to be acknowledged as an American. I worked in the foreign service on hardship programmes and trained in Washington before being posted to West Africa. A great experience marred only by the eleven obligatory injections. Despite majoring in a variety of subjects for 16 years I never actually got a degree so officially I wasn't allowed to become an officer in the foreign service, but I'd built up so much experience they made me an officer anyway”.]]> http://www.followtheboat.com/2008/04/04/gwen-of-kw/feed/ 0 http://www.followtheboat.com/2008/02/08/the-simm-family-of-%e2%80%98storm-dodger%e2%80%99/ http://www.followtheboat.com/2008/02/08/the-simm-family-of-%e2%80%98storm-dodger%e2%80%99/#comments Fri, 08 Feb 2008 17:21:32 +0000 Jamie http://www.followtheboat.com/?p=2052 "It's a real eye-opener", commented Astrid. "Another time one of our girls used to get up at four in the morning to get the milk in off the door-step. When I told her she didn't need to do this she explained that her mother had taught her to steal milk from people's doorsteps. She was three." Sadly another of their foster children got into a fight in an underground station and was knocked to the tracks and killed. “Of course that was very sad", says Astrid, "as he'd only left our care a week before.]]> http://www.followtheboat.com/2008/02/08/the-simm-family-of-%e2%80%98storm-dodger%e2%80%99/feed/ 12