Bodrum marina

This guide to Bodrum marina follows Erol Agan, born here in nineteen thirty-six and apprenticed to a master boat builder after his sea-captain father drowned, who kept working after an accident took his right hand and earned the name One-Armed Erol. It covers the sponge-diving boats he studied on this harbor and the changes he made to their hull when he opened his own yard in nineteen sixty-one, twenty-five years old, widening the deck and lowering the freeboard for room to sleep and eat below. His first boat, an eighteen-meter vessel, launched with no fanfare.