To Finike and beyond

Another social evening and then skipper's best cooking. So all ready to leave Gokkaya behind and press on the Finike.

It turned out to be a delightful brisk sail, mostly reaching and finally a goose wing run for the last few miles.

As usual the forecast light winds were mythical. The final fling seemed to be F5 or 6, which allowed us to fly along with reefed mainsail. The crew had to use full throttle on the engine when we had to turn into the wind to get the sail down. She was proud of that.

We arrived in Finike in time for the Saturday market, which turned out to be enormous, with every sort of fruit, veg, and clothing on offer. We managed to confine ourselves to tomatoes, onions, aubergine, courgette, onions, red pepper, peaches, figs, dried figs, and dates.