Transit of the dardanelles and into the Sea of MarmaraJ

Jack Tar has made it from Ayvalik to the Sea of Marmara via the Dardanelles, an exceptionally busy strait with many merchant ships transitting to and from Istanbul and the Black Sea. Naturally, despite a favourable forecast, the wind turned and blew from right ahead at a steady 15 - 20 kts and so we battled that and a current against us of up to 3.5 kts. Enroute, after a night sheltering from the wind in a bay near Assos, opposite Lesvos Is., we overnighted on the island of Bozcaada, just short of the strait, and then at Gelibolou at the north end, and then at Karabiga, a town on the Asian shore of the Sea of Marmara. Today we have tacked upwind a short distance to the island of Avsas. The weather has been sunny but cold i.e. 12 -15C, with a significant chill factor. We are told that this is unseasonable weather. No consolation.