Unwritten Rules of Yachting

In our country, where everyone worries about everything but very few things really matter, Emir Kunt has been trying to interpret the problems of our seas and coasts for years. As someone who has spent years on boats, there are not many people who observe and write about change and transformation better than him. He believes that there is a problem of manners at the root of the damage to nature, wrongdoing and plunder, and he does not refrain from satirizing such situations and reminding the rules that everyone knows very well with his sweet and stern style. We have gathered the lessons we have learned from the books Emir Kunt has written so far.
 
 
  • The way to protect nature, the way to approach each other with respect, the way to ensure justice, the way to protect the future of our country does not change when we buy a boat and go out to sea.
  • You don't ask for anything from another boat unless there is an emergency. Helping each other at sea is essential. But in times of emergency and hardship!
  • If you are trying to land stern first in a narrow place, between other boats, and everyone on the next boat stands up and watches you dock, it means they are "booing" you! If you like that spot very much, you should wait there away from the spot and dock when the other boat comes out.
  • Everyone has learned about the Windy program, the Poseidon sea forecast website, but if the weather they see is not what they want, they apply infuriating pressures such as "do you think we can pass on dark green", "can we go on light orange if we push". To who? To me. Who am I? I am the person who, like them, looked at that program and said that you should never go, that stormy weather should not be pushed.
  • Boat friendship is a friendship with one sea, one course and one mind. They are people who feel and act as if they are on their own boat when they come on your boat.
  • You should never see your boat friend as a competitor, but you should also keep being competitive. 
  • Nowadays, as boats have become more luxurious and complex, there is a greater need for captains with a "yachting culture". For instance, once the boat is launched, whether the owner is on board or not, the skipper must wake up every morning with the same discipline and planning. Unless they are very desperate, they should not make the boat owner feel the negativities, they should host their companions like a guest and create a pleasant holiday environment.
  • The greatest source of pride for those who live on their boat is that they have not bought a summer house. But they themselves do not move an inch for fear of losing their buoys or their anchorage. Dear yachtsmen and their precious skippers... When you settle in the bays like those who live on their boat, you prevent other boats from benefiting from the bays and you disrupt the balance of nature.
  • Peeping at the next boat with binoculars is as shameful as entering a boat without taking off your shoes, and not doing it is one of the unwritten rules of boating.
  • The best way to avoid drones harassing you at sea is to throw green plums at them. If we throw a hard object, it's a pity, it might break, after all, they are expensive devices. But the size of the green plum is ideal thanks to its shock absorbing and deterrent properties.
  • When docking, do not shout at your mooring sailor like a shepherd shouting at his flock on the plateau. Please use the hand-held radio.
  • Canoeing, windsurfing, sailing, wakeboarding, water skiing are activities where your child is least likely to make an attempt on their own life or the life of someone else. Sailing is the most useful occupation for learning to tackle the sea and gaining self-confidence.
 
In short, when we go out to sea, we are looking for people whose faces excite us with the possibility of learning something from them. Today, we are looking for those eyes with the seal of seafaring, where we can see their experience, their seamanship, even the storms they have experienced. Beautiful people looking at those deep eyes... Real sailors... boaters!
 
Photographs: Emir Kunt Archive