Starting from Lesbos, a five month journey through the Dardanelles and the Bosphorus to Bulgaria, Romania, Ukraine, North Turkey and to Georgia. Highlights were gentility in the Sea of Marmara, crazy officialdom in Istanbul, three transits of the swirling Bosphorus (twice single-handed) and the emptiness of the Black Sea (enlivened by the coastguard boats coming to check papers). Less entrancing was paperwork in Yalta and thunderstorms in N Turkey. The land of the Golden Fleece? Batumi, Georgia was more like a modern Blackpool, thriving on escapees from Turkey's moral constraints. Go on, give it a go. The charts are there, the harbours are there, but the boats aren't. And you would be stupid to miss the Crimea.
Please note: Chris has kindly stepped in to replace the scheduled talk by Neil and Pat Lynn which has had to be postponed. If you have booked for the Mediterranean Seminar you will be hearing a shorter, more technically focussed version of Chris’s presentation on Sunday 10 March.
Individual lecture tickets: Members £4.00 , Non-members £7.00
To book contact Secretariat Tel: 0207 537 2828 or email office@cruising.org.uk