Gumusluk pronounced Goomooshlook is a lovely little protected harbor on the Carian coast of
Turkey. It’s round the corner ffrom Bodrum and unlike Bodrum which has become a bit like Blackpool/Atlantic City, it’s a peaceful little place.
If you haven’t been sailing in Turkey, go now! It’s excellent. Great winds, good sea, nice little harbors, fantastic food and very nice people.
A young Brit guy called Paul Easton has created a site for Gumusluk that’s worth a surf. Here’s a bit about Paul.
Please note: I was not the sunsail sailor he rescued. As if!
"I used to run a sailing and windsurfing centerer at the end of the bay! I once had to rescue a sunsail yacht with all their drunken staff on board from the rocks! They managed to get prop rap! I am now at university in Sheffield in my final year, I have just launched a website for Gumusluk with accommodation etc."
Quite agree: spent a week sailing the Lycian coast and wrote it up for the Yorkshire Post (well known in America, I believe). Write up here:
http://www.wildbard.com/slowboat.html
The coast is incredible, and you’d probably get a few charter bargains beecause the occassional bomb in Ankara has put people off. But you’re certainly very safe on a boat charter pn the coast.
During the night decribed in the the piece, a scrum of Sunsail flotilla boars came into the bay,, ignored the advice of the local boat boy about anchoring, made a horlicks of it and as we sailed out they were into their second hour of trying to unscramble four hopelessly fouled anchors. The skipper I recognized from my yachtmater course. I passed a remark or two. His reply ended in ‘off’.
Beware the Gulets – they think they have right of way in all conditions and are usually full of pissed up Brits.