General:

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Sea Space Solutions Canvas Bags
Sea Space make stylish, hardwearing canvas rail and railing bags, storage bags, laundry bags, peg bags, mini bags, document bags and cases, shower bags, washbags, perfect for yachts, boats, motor boats and all outdoor activities. Moshe and Claudia also do wonderful canvas work - see under Turkey.

Forward looking sonar. Echopilot Platinum
Really useful bit of kit and first class backup service. www.echopilot.com

UK:

Hamble Point Marina

Yachting Sports can do just about everything you want. Very good at coming up with ideas to solve problems - and everything on a boat is a compromise anyway. Ask for Derek Moreland and insist on Nick doing the work! 023 8045 6050 derek@yachtingsports.co.uk

Aztec Marine are the boys for anything electrical or electronic. Dave Freeman who is something of a legend around these parts is the man you need to speak to and try overlook that he is Cornish and you will have no problems. 023 8045 5112 davef@aztecmarine.co.uk

Gas Systems - Marine Systems Engineering who are really David Stopard and his van are first class when it comes to anything at all to do with gas systems. Your biggest problem will be getting him to talk to you in the first place and then do the job in the second place! Lovely bloke but far too busy because he bloody good at his job. Frustrating but worth trying. 02380 83941. Mobile (best option) 07971 624 295

Drinking Water Filters - Seagul IV. There is only one place to go for this General Ecology. Call Harald Charters on 01293 400 644 or email charters416@aol.com or visit www.purewateronline.co.uk. Forget ever buying bottled water again. makes the big gin palace crews look so stupid as they struggle to carry the cases of water! This filter cleans up all potable water and will save you a fortune and so much grief as you cruise anywhere in the world.

Greece:

Athens/Piraeus
Adonis is a marine engineer (Yanmar, Volvo and Mastervolt) who speaks pretty good English, is very competent and is extremely pleasant and diligent.
Phone +30 6977 233 161

Turkey:

Istanbul - Marinturk City Port Istanbul (Pendik Marina to you and me) Still under construction whilst we were there, but nearing completion (July 2009) and very pleasant and helpful staff and just a 3 TR train ride from the city attractions. Also just a few minutes from Sabiha Godek airport (Easyjet). 0090 5327422 381

Kusidasi Marina Restaurant on the quay. You need to folow the quay round from the reception heading past the tennis courts and hardstanding area. Brilliant food and great service and not too busy as it is so hard to find!

Yacht marine - Marmaris

This is the place to leave your boat for the winter. Huge and sometimes a bit impersonable perhaps, but the marina is well run and has every facility for yachtsmen doing what we do. Excellent on site restaurant as well as a staff canteen you can use which is very basic but sound food at a fixed price (7 euro per head in 2010) which is just the job if you are trying to live on the boat whilst it is out of the water at the end or start of the season. On the social front there are so many boats based here throughout the winter that there is a thriving community and all sorts going on with frequent social events. The bar has a happy hour to rival any we have seen!

There are also any number of very good companies based here and in Marmaris itself who can do just about any job you can name.

We can fully recommend Demir Marine here. They are a large and well run outfit and whilst you need to keep on their case all the time (never make the mistake of letting these companies work on your boat when you are not there) they do very good work. not the cheapest but out here you tend to get what you pay for! Stainless steel work, rigging, carpentry and electrics etc. Pretty much the full range. Ask for Ilhan or John.
DEMIR Marine 0090 252 422 0055 ilhandemir@demirmarine.com or visit www.demirmarine.com

Boat Electrics. We bought cable and bits from Aydin Marine (ask for Mesut Silin) who were really helpful and full of advice and suggestions.

Raymarine have an agent at yacht marine who are first class (but very busy).

Sailmakers: Moby marine who are agents for Elvstrom Sails are very prompt and effecient. They laundered and looked after our sails for the winter and made us a new gennaker of which we are very proud. www.mobymarine.com.tr 0090 252 419 2351. Ask for Yelin but they mostly speak good English.

Malta:

Great place and some first class engineers etc. (and they all speak proper English!)

Computers:

Brilliant little shop and more importantly a workshop where they can repair and recover most problems!
Link 2000,bate Rigord Street, Ta' Xbiex, XBX 1128
Phone: 356 21 - 339165
Email: info@link2000.com.mt

Raymarine:

RLR Yachting are the agents in Malta and at the time of writing this, Matthew Gusman is the operations manager. They are your first port of call for anything to do with Raymarine and they on the front near the bridge to Manoile (pronounced Manuel) Island.
156 Ta' Xbiex Seafront, Gizra GZR 102o
'Phone:00356 2133 1192
Email: matthew@rlryachting.com
www.rlryachting.com

But you really need to know that the man they then call out to your boat is called Kurt Casapinta and his mobile is 00356 9942 9584. Kurt is an electronics wizard and appears to be trained by Raymarine, Mastervolt and a host of others, so for most electrical and electronic faults he is the man you need, but getting hold of him is another thing.
I recommend using email first kurt.marinetech@maltanet.net

Marine Electronics:

See Kurt Casapinta above, but also we had fantastic service in fixing our Icom SSB unit from:
Medcomms Ltd. Their best engineer for such things was Stephan and I cannot praise him highly enough. These people are agents for Garmin etc. so between them and Kurt you have pretty much everything covered!
4 Msida Road, Gzira,
00356 2133 5521 or 00356 2133 0147
admin@medcomms.com.mt
www.medcomms.com.mt

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