We finally got around to taking our Promise last week. Pete had been successful in bidding on the days sailing which had been "promised" by the forums's Kaptainkrunchie (Peter Jackson) who is a RYA sailing instructor with Gocek Sea School which is part of Portway Yacht Charters.
Peter and his lovely wife Marion picked us up in Calis on the Tuesday morning and we drove to Gocek where we boarded the Orla Grey, a very nice 37' Bavaria yacht. After motoring out of Gocek we put the sails up and had a lovely few hours sailing around the bays before stopping off at the small restaurant at Kucuk Sarsala bay for a delicious pide lunch and drinks which was all included in the promise. By the time we left the restaurant after a long relaxing lunch where we found we had no end of friends in common, we set back for Gocek. Unfortunately the wind had dropped by then so it was a motor back - but still very pleasant to be out on the water.
We would like to thank Peter and Marion and the Gocek Sea School for providing a fabulous promise which we thoroughly enjoyed. We understand that Portway Yacht Charters has 22 yachts and cats to charter and that the sea school provides a full range of Royal Yachting Association sailing courses leading to qualifications including the International Certificate of Competence (ICC) so if anyone wants to take up sailing we would reccomend both the competence of their instructors and their boats.
