17 Sep - 18 Sep 2006 Nuweiba

Northern Red Sea
Gulf of Aqaba
Africa
Sinai Peninsula 
Nuweiba el-Muzeina
SY "Kamu II" at anchor, west of the ferry pier, at 9 m depth, on sand and coral.

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Short-tacking into 30 knots of head wind, bang on the nose, along the edge of the Sinai reef, between 10 m and 100 m east off the fringing reef, thus avoiding the bigger ones of the infamous short and steep waves of the Gulf of Aqaba/Eilat and sinning against one of our own sailing rules: “If the wind is forward of the beam and twenty knots or more, forget it.”

“To reach a port we must set sail
Sail, not tie at anchor
Sail, not drift.”
(Franklin D. Roosevelt)



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