21st May

Reefs in mainsail The sail area is reduced in a strong wind by lowering the sail, then wrapping  and  tying it with ropes round the boom (bottom spar).
Gulf of Adramyti Gulf of Edremit in the northeast Aegean and the west coast of Turkey, straddled by the island of Lesbos  
Baba Babakale – Turkish village on the northeast Aegean coast.  Once a den of pirates.  Sultan Ahmet III built a fortress in 1723 to keep them out and populated the region with immigrants from Kazakhstan.