Chartering out of Fethiye or Rhodes

[cpthook]

hi All

I'm in Dalaman in June and thinking of chartering a 27 to 32 out of Fethiye or Rhodes. I have Day Skipper, the Gf has no experience at all. So I'm looking at a fairly leisurely potter about in nothing more than a F4 ideally.

Am I better off getting a ferry to Rhodes or sticking in Fethiye and are there any chartering companies you'd recommend? I know the Greeks require two qualified skippers in theory but in practice this is not observed. Also I note that the Turks seem to do spot checks and I'd rather not have any agro! Any advice appreciated, or if you're interested in chartering to me let me know please.

Best
Dude

 

[Victoria Sponge]

Personally I'd go for Turkey. There's not that much happening out of Rhodes, whereas Turkey is much better set up for it.

I'd also go for Flotilla as there's so much you don't know about sailing in that area, I don't mean you personally. We've been with Sunscape and so long as you can demonstrate you know what you're doing they're fine with you doing your own thing, but with the back up at all times of the lead crew.

 

[Tranona]

Plenty of choice in Fethiye, Goecek or Marmaris. As suggested a flotilla might be the way to go.

 

[Whiskey Bravo]

hi All

I'm in Dalaman in June and thinking of chartering a 27 to 32 out of Fethiye or Rhodes. I have Day Skipper, the Gf has no experience at all. So I'm looking at a fairly leisurely potter about in nothing more than a F4 ideally.

Am I better off getting a ferry to Rhodes or sticking in Fethiye and are there any chartering companies you'd recommend? I know the Greeks require two qualified skippers in theory but in practice this is not observed. Also I note that the Turks seem to do spot checks and I'd rather not have any agro! Any advice appreciated, or if you're interested in chartering to me let me know please.

Best
Dude

We've chartered from Fethiye through Nautilus in the UK. The local firm was Yildiz Yachting and very good they were too. We sailed a Bavaria 32, as we'd not been there before we took the Flotilla option but it was very relaxed, we had several free days to do as we pleased, once they knew we were ok.
The yachts were very clean and no problems.
Winds were quite consistent, but no more than F5/6, but mostly in the F3/4 range. If you don't want long days there are lenty of short hops, but longer trips are available.

Enjoy it.

 

[KellysEye]

I definitely wouldn't charter out of Rhodes, it's in the boonies. If you want to charter in the southern Aegean Kos is the place to start.

 

[exfinnsailor]

If it's your first time try a flotilla holiday out of Turkey. You will learn a lot for when you do it alone. Ours this year is a two week flotilla followed by a week on our own. You will have lots of tricks to learn like mooring stern to or stern to with an anchor and a line tied to a tree. Plenty of restaurants with a jetty but all stern to with a lazy line so possibly not something you covered on day skipper. Navigation is reasonably easy as there are no tides to worry about. Provision the boat well as the food ashore at some of the restaurants is expensive and not that good. We bought 15 x 3 ltr bottles of water at the start of the holiday 2 weeks and had to buy extra which is expensive in bars etc. You need about 2 lts a day each person. You do not drink the water from the water storage tank.

TAKE PLENTY OF MOSSI REPELLANT ( TROPICAL MIX with high DEET works Well ) MAKE SURE YOU USE IT ..

ALSO TAKE SOMETHING YOU CAN HAVE IN THE CABIN IN THE EVENING ..

Don't under estimate the little b*gg*rs they are everywhere

Depending on time of year but in August you can expect 38 - 40 in the shade
but it drops down to 30 ish at night. Cooler out on the water. Wind starts about 12 oclock so you always get a sail in the afternoon.

 

[cpthook]

Many thanks guys, I'm checking out Yilidz. I'm really looking for a 27 if possible to save money, but if 32 is the smaller, that will have to do.

I've done a lot of stern-to mooring in the Adriatic and Ionian over the years so should be ok there. As long is its not blowing a hooley !!! Got caught in a seven in Corfu a few years ago - don't fancy that again! lol

Cheers
Dude

 

[Victoria Sponge]

Have a look at Sunscape as well. We were very impressed. They sail out of Gocek, Marmaris and Orhaniye, all within easy distance of Dalaman. This area is brilliant for sailing with everything you could wish for in a fantastic sailing holiday. Enjoy.