Tersane Creek

Description

Tersane Creek lies at the NW tip of Tersane island at the northern "entrance" to Skopea Limani. It is a charming creek surrounded by olive groves and with the ruins of what appears to have been a Byzantine or Ottoman dockyard and ship servicing facility at its head. Anchor on either side of the inlet and take a line ashore to a bollard. Most yachts seem to prefer the western side. If you can get far enough into the inlet, you may even be dropping anchor in as little as 8.0 – 10.0 metres. At the head of the inlet, there are two coves to the NE and SW which are full of underwater ruins and should be avoided. In the centre of the head of the creek is the Tersane Creek Restaurant, which has a (rather rickety) wooden jetty accommodating some 10 yachts on laid moorings. Shelter is very good here, being open only to NNW winds, which only have a fetch of little more than a mile. At night, if the creek is silent (for which read: "no tourist hotel gulets") you will hear tawny owls calling to each other across the cove. In addition, there are three further anchorages outside the gulf on the eastern side of the Kapidaği peninsula, which offer reasonable shelter in the prevailing winds but are open E round to SE.