When we woke up, sun was  welcoming us to the new day. Normally you think a sunny day would be kind of warm, right? NO . NO . NO.

Before the trip, they told us to not carry a sweater for each day and they were right. We all wore the same things all day and even at night, because it can be very cold and since our day clothes are the thickest ones.

I brought 2 sweatshirts to the boat, which were insufficient. In February, if your clothes get wet, they will stay wet (Lesson learnt). My first sweater got wet to the maximum in the first day (vomit festival). So I had to wear the other sweater each day. I didn’t feel skinky or anything but if that one got wet also, I wouldn’t have another one which kind of sucked. (Move away quickly if you see anything fluid-likeJ )

Coming back to Day 3, it was the coldest day of the trip despite the sun. My uniform didn’t keep me warm enough to let me think anything except “it’s damn cold!”. So I went to my room, and put on anything that is not much wet (dry was a strong word in these conditions).

So I kind of looked like Marshmallow Man from Ghostbusters:

We anchored in Dirsek Bay for lunch. Well, honestly anchoring was a lot harder considering the fact that anchor rode fell off without our control and we had to pull all the steel rode in. It was good practice because all the crew wanted to pursue career in weightliftingJ.

We didn’t want to spend the night in Dirsek Bay, and we wanted to do some more sailing. I guess we exegerated a little because the night fell when we were out in the sea, abay from safe bays.  Sailing a night is very different from daytime, it is riskier and much more difficult. Yet we had working GPS and hopefully we were not that far from Selimiye Bay. So after putting on lifesavers, using projector and gps we managed to anchor in a safe bay.

In the first days, for dinner we were having classical easy to prepare food like macaroni or scramble-eggs. As days went by, we discovered that some of the crew were really good at cooking so our simple dinners transformed to feasts.

Yummmy. I got hungry again.