We left Esenköy at around 6:30am. The forecast showed a pretty calm day, but because it was Mom’s first time out in a long time she decided to take a Dramamine just in case – that was the end of Mom. She ended up sleeping the majority of the day and passed out without a problem once we reached our anchorage.
The sail itself was pretty uneventful. Instead of having the wind on our nose, we had no wind at all and there was no current to really push us along either. So we just sort of motor sailed the 10 hours to our next port.
We were headed towards Saraylar which is a harbor on Marmara Island. We hugged the southern part of the Sea of Marmara on our way in so on the way out we decided to branch out and visit the island. Once we got there we decided that we didn’t really need to get off the boat to explore the town, but what we saw was pretty awesome anyway.
This is what the anchorage looked like when we got there. The sun was setting and there were two other boats anchored out already. Saraylar is a town where they mine for marble. A majority of the marble in the Aya Sofya was actually quarried here.
This is a view of the marble quarries in the morning. We decided to sleep in instead of trying to find the man who drives a four-wheeler and takes you around on a tour of the quarries. So we took photos from the boat as we were leaving.
We had another uneventful sail the next day. We went back to Kemer to anchor out and break up the trip to the Dardanelles. The first trip through Kemer there was a lot of swell and fishing boats circling our boat at night. This time around it was an incredibly pleasant anchorage to spend the night.
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