To go  to Marmaris, you first go to Dalaman by plane and then you have a one-hour drive. My flight was very early and I couldn’t get any sleep at all (Lesson Learnt: Always sleep before a sailing trip).

Since we plan to spend a whole week on the boat, a group went to shopping for vital supplies. Chocolate bars, chips and alcohol are very important in our survival as the shopping bags show. One-week supplies for 8 people cost almost 500 Euros and to give you an idea we took 25 water bottles of 5 liters.

All the supplies are taken, the paperwork finished we were ready to sail at noon.

We untied the ropes but wait, a rope was stuck to motor fan. In order to leave the marina all the rope must be set free of the motor or motor could be damaged.

Solution: One must dive in the sea (Rainy day in February) and cut the rope.

Victim: Our captain of courseJ

At last, we could leave the marina and get on the way. The weather was very windy, that was not the problem, but the waves on the sea have caused trouble in our stomachs.

40 minutes sleep + hunger + giant waves for 3 hours = VOMIT

I was not the only one of course; half of the crew has vomited. We were all wet, all kind of panicked of the harsh weather conditions and most of us were tired.

Most importantly at that moment, we would all prefer to watch tv in the house, than sail there. I kept asking myself why I was in this trip.

And then, we noticed our main sail was ripped. When a sail on the boat is ripped you have to fix it, otherwise it could be dangerous. You may not control it, yet it may be unusable. So we decided to turn back to Albatros Marina, the place where we left off 3 hours ago.

After a hard day, we were all begging for some hot soup and some food. When our stomachs were full, and our clothes were dry, we thought:

It wasn’t that hard, was it?