Wonderful August sailing (10th&11th)

A windy weekend expected with increasing wind throughout the day, both Saturday and Sunday
For the first time, Giang is joining us, flying from Denmark. After 3 years hearing about this boat, she finally gets a chance to see and feel what is happening on this famous Yasasin’s project. Thank you Ardic for making it happen.
Short crew again that weekend = lots of “sport”

Saturday, August 10^th
– Meeting time 10am at the hotel to taxi to the harbour
– crew: Ardic, Izzet, Senol, Sinem, Giang and X

As you can imagine, we are ready to fight hard to hoist, trim, steer, maneuver and so on.
Lucky us the wind is decent, and we don’t have to worry too much.
We start with 2 reefs in the mainsail and J3. A slight hesitation occurred to begin with 3 reefs but I figured it would be too cautious.
Quickly the wind decreases and we go for reef 1 and J1.
Nice fun with rather high speed, toping 24-26knots and above, “racing” some cargo-ships around, or/and slaloming between some of those ships anchored. Excellent exercise, for sure. Tacking, Jybing, adjusting laylines, choosing proper angles to keep clear …. Great fun. Ardic is concentrated at the helm, smiling and shouting when above 25knots.
Giang enjoys every minute, is not sick, finds her way on the boat and is really eager to work hard, pulling the ropes, turning the winch-handles when ever needed. She has good time, for sure. And with Sinem, they make a great team together both talking and working hard.

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– Sunday, August 11^th
– Same meeting time at the Marmara hotel (10am)
– crew: the same as yesterday minus Sinem ( 😦 ) plus 2 of Ardic’s friends coming for enjoying the weather, the speed, the clean air, the company.
Again, 2 reefs in the mainsail and J3. Far enough for toping 28,6knots, record of the weekend held by Ardic.
The wind is not regular so we can take one reef off.

We decide to check out an island Ardic would like to do business on.
As we approach the area, the wind picks up and we really start having fun. Few tacks through the narrow straight dealing both with the shallow water and the boats all over the place and we can accelerate easing off the sheets a little, racing some ferries for the pleasure of their passengers waving, shooting us with their cameras.

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Short crew on July 26&27

For the first time, Loïc (my son) is joining a training weekend.
Not completely new on board as he was taking part of the delivery back in 2014 from Malta to Didim. A pleasure to having him with us.

Sunshine, light breeze, then wind allowing us to have our usual fun. That was great.
Saturday, a short crew with Ardic, Senol, Sinem, Loïc and myself
Yes, hard work for all, but smile and joy the whole day, followed by a night-walk in Istanbul with a visit of the museum of illusion and a nice dinner (Sinem, Loic and myself)

Sunday
crew: Ardic, Senol, Sinem, Batuhan, Loïc and X
Today we have the visit of one of Ardic’s friend, Mario from Ecuador, and his lady, Angela from Colombia
Again, the weather conditions are perfect and everyone can enjoy the ride at its full.
Thanks for the shots taken that day (videos and photos)

(photos & videos coming soon or later)

July, 13th-14th

Quiet sailing weekend on Yasasin as the weather was forecasting some light rain and breeze.

Saturday 13
With our “short” crew we have lots of work but everything went fine until a tack where the J1 leech caught the leeward 2 spinlocks on the mast and broke them both. So strange how it could happen considering their high position. Strong sail yes, but damaged slightly.
We top almost 19knots but it ismore like 14 to 15knts in average

Sunday 14
Lot more wind that day so we do not need the J1 (lucky because of the little damage)
Not much to talk about. Everything went fine.

A nice weekend. Thank you all

photos-videos to follow shortly

June 1st and 2nd 2019

After a long winter and a full weekend to repair/calibrate the electronic (thanks to Laurent), we finally can enjoy the pleasure to sail at high speed.

Saturday, despite a light wind prediction of the weather forecast, we really can feel the great potential of the boat, with its beautiful mainsail hoisted with no reef.
Fabulous sensations at 25knots in a perfect flat sea.
We have a little minus though, the helm is not smooth and we need to be very concentrated (and strong) to not let us taken by a hard point coming now and then at high speed. We MUST find out what the problem is ASAP.

Very short crew that day, but enough to enjoy every minute.
Ardic, Senol, Izzet, Levent (a new crew) and myself.
Better not forget the 3 scary “stop&Go” occurring at 25knots where the leeward hull AND the bow went way under water surface due to a late reaction bot at the mainsheet and the J1 sheet combine to a no-reaction at the helm. WOW. Bad luck no camera was running ;).
The J1 was replaced by the smaller J3 after the first alert and eventhough, we had 2 more …
The wind picked up in a bay West of our marina forcing us to take a reef (which became 2)

Sunday, the weather forecast announced a very light breeze and so it was from the morning to 2pm where we got a nice NNE of 10-12knots.
Same people as the day before plus Izzet’s gf until Ardic’s sister, Bike, and 2 of their friends joined, sailed by Bike’s motor boat.
A very nice ride with the maxi-genaker topping 20 to 21knots in very safe conditions.

A wonderful sailing weekend, except that we could not trust the B&G auto pilot which seemed to have worked pretty well the previous weekend.

Let’s see what the 15th&16th will have to offer.

Here are some pictures of the weekend
Check out the videos at the bottom

1) Saturday

2) Sunday

 

Electronic weekend (18-19 May 2019)

Together with Laurent, our “witch” (wizard), this weekend is reserved for setting up and calibrating all electronic which had suffered bad treatment the past few seasons.
Lucky, the wind was very light and he (wizard) could “fly” some hours on top of the mast, enjoying the view.
The sailing itself was ….. not much fun for the crew as we deployed the J1 once for a very short period, unable to find wind enough.
Instead, we could practice flying the drone and take some few shots. Not top quality but unusual angles of Yasasin we had never seen before.

The crew:
Ardic
James  – Ardic’s British fellow (on Sunday)
Sena (on Sunday)
Laurent
Izzet
Senol
Levent (new on board)
Xavier
Kerem (on Sunday)

Saturday

 

Sunday

June 2nd and 3rd 2018

Saturday June 2th wind: up to 20-22knots ENE – NE
crew: Senol, Izzet, Kerem, Ali, X (+ taxi driver)
the expected wind does not come as the weather forecast predicted.
Very happy about that so we can hoist both genakers and look at them, check the drum-system and roll them properly.

Sunday June 3rd wind: 10-12knots NE – ENE – E
crew: Senol, Izzet, Kerem, Batuhan, Cem, X, Özlem and her son Ruzgar 5yrs old  (“wind” in Turkish)
The weather is mild and we cannot reach high speed even with full sails. We cannot go so far then, due to the time agreed with our driver, so we only manage a 40miles trip that day.
Still we have some good sailing, where Izzet non-stop keeps the helm with no rest.
That day, we have the visit of Ozlem and her son Ruzgar (5 years old). Second time for his mother, he needs long time to feel confident and let his mum away. With patience and convincing expressions, we manage to get him to play with all (see videos and pics). The way back to town will see a very tired boy falling asleep almost right away

Photos taken Saturday

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Video 1 (fast sailing): https://youtu.be/hCac3stMUsc
Video 2 (fast sailing): https://youtu.be/7ylvLyinBQ4
Video 3 (fast sailing): https://youtu.be/EEFuF0YfbVo

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Photos taken Sunday

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Photos from our new young sailor Ruzgar, taken sunday – slideshow

Some videos of Ruzgar’s day
Video 1: at the helm
Video 2: On the fordeck
Video 3: Single hand sailor?
Video 4: Winch handling practice
Video 5: Single hand hard work

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April 28th and 29th

2 different days are scheduled for this weekend
Saturday and its training session, fun and windy
and
A strange Sunday where the crew more than the weather will play a big role
Today will see Yasasin with 16 people on board with 5 teenagers who will enjoy every second

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Saturday’s videos

Video: Deck view
Video: Fordeck view
Video: Approaching traffic
Video: Speeding above 21 knots
Video: Total stability above 21knots
Video: West Marina approach

 

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Sunday’s videos