On New Year’s Eve, we went to Turkey for a regatta with the Wind Power team. These guys organize yacht-related activities under the slogan “making yachting accessible.” Whether it is expensive in the end depends on what you compare it to, and I didn’t have anything to compare it to. It was my first time going on an organized vacation like this.
The regatta started with meeting the team and buying food for the week. We cooked on the boat ourselves, except for the mandatory dinners at marinas, where boats were allowed to dock for free in exchange for teams going to local restaurants. Organized activities like summer camp competitions such as “guess the melody” and “ping pong tournament” took place at these marinas. There were 13 boats in the regatta, with about 8 people on each boat, so there were a lot of people.
The transitions themselves turned out to be short. About 40 minutes each. Perhaps this was intentional, as we almost always arrived at a place where we could take an interesting walk, or maybe we were just unlucky with the weather. The sun was shining and there was no wind all week, so we couldn’t hoist the sails and as a result, we couldn’t learn to pull the ropes.
We went on walks to see Greek ruins. There were both ancient temples and abandoned settlements from a hundred years ago. Some say they left on their own, while others believe they left the same way the Armenians did. In any case, all that remains of them are ruins, smoothly transitioning into a lively Turkish town, with the Turkish flag waving at the highest points of the abandoned settlement.
Overall, I didn’t bring any interesting stories from there, but I have a bunch of beautiful photos.
