▲The Maserati Marina Yacht Club Cup sail races ended with a grand party, like all good sailing events tend to do, thus ending the summer series of sailing races hosted by Milta Bodrum Marina. The happy faces of prize winners can be seen in the photo (inset). It seems there were no foreign flag participants. No interest, competition too keen? Or perhaps wider publicity is needed? ☻A new organization with a curious name has been established in Bodrum. In Turkish Dünya Denizler Eğitim Derneği, translated it means World Seas Education Society. Clearly it is not meant to educate the seas, but with known long local tradition of reliance on on-the-job master-apprentice training as opposed to any sort of formalized education, the founders are likely to hit the rocks of indifference – so in the end the name may not matter much.

∞A week-long symposium on such arcane subjects of theoretical physics as chaos theory, complexities, or systems in disorder taking place in Yalıkavak? Yes, apparently so, and academics from Istanbul University and all over Turkey are taking part in it. But the very names of the subjects seem too complex for the Yalıkavak Municipality Public Relations Department who could not give us any information, except that it is indeed taking place. Nevertheless, interested parties could descend on the Yalıkavak municipal conference hall and try to make some sense out of the chaos.