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Mark&Catherine
Admiral Joined: 18 January 2013 Location: Turkey Status: Offline Points: 1200 |
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Posted: 30 October 2014 at 06:51 |
Catherine and I have started our new adventure aboard ubulukutu, we have joined the Red Sea Sailing Safari and will live aboard until May next year, except for a visit home at Christmas. Here we are in Ishmalia half way down the Suez Canal. The picture is taken from the flybridge of a motor 'trawler' that is coming with us, so were about the same height as my lower spreaders! We do look a bit odd compared with all the other boats that sport gantries with solar panels and all sorts of cruising gear attached, there is a book running on when we will have something fitted to ubulukutu (currently nothing planned) |
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385 ubulukutu sail number GBR 3350L in Turkey and Greece with Mark and Catherine
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Mark&Catherine
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Here is one of the 10 boats in Egyptionn waters as we approached the coast |
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385 ubulukutu sail number GBR 3350L in Turkey and Greece with Mark and Catherine
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Mark&Catherine
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Motoring down the suez canal. We have to have pilots, ours were fine but one boat had a bad experience, and one lost a jacket they lent to their pilot.
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385 ubulukutu sail number GBR 3350L in Turkey and Greece with Mark and Catherine
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Mark&Catherine
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Twice we have anchored in the middle of a reef, an odd feeling because all around there is just water, we have snorkeled and seen more fish than ever. |
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385 ubulukutu sail number GBR 3350L in Turkey and Greece with Mark and Catherine
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Lippe
Commadore Joined: 05 September 2009 Location: Finland Status: Offline Points: 356 |
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Hi.
If you will sail until May I guess it is not only Red Sea you will see. Best Regards Kari |
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Mark&Catherine
Admiral Joined: 18 January 2013 Location: Turkey Status: Offline Points: 1200 |
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Hi Kari,
we are in Hurghada now and will stay in this area until the 10th January, then we will go south for 2 months after which we are hoping to go up to Jordan to see Petra, we will sail back out the suez in April and go back to Cyprus, and eventually back to Turkey in May
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Fendant
Admiral Joined: 03 November 2012 Location: Switzerland Status: Offline Points: 1617 |
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Hi Mark, are you 007 ??
Please keep up posting, I think there are a lot of forumites who envy you ! rgds from the snow
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Frank
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Mark&Catherine
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Hi Frank,
Yes we are 007, it was by chance as the numbers were allocated in the order in which we agreed to come, but Albert and Sheena who organised the rally say they thought it was appropriate, due to the massive undertaking of shipping from Dubai and getting ready for the start - we only just made it, arriving in Limassol 2 days after everyone else. Follow us on facebook 'red sea sailing safari' and I will post here also when we get good connections. Im thinking of writing a short piece on 'living on a Hanse', or maybe just a long post here. Most of the other boats are heavier cruisers who tend to take a straight line to where they are going, and sail if they can. We sail when we can, and take what ever line that means. Overall we get there at the same time, we go 20% further and use half the diesel. We have 10 boats, 2 US, 1 Canadian and 7 British (although one of these is an Irish couple who also fly an Irish flag of the port spreader). We are all getting along well and having a great time. Good parties, great sailing, new experiences, its warm, its cheap. Most locals are very happy to see us and welcoming, their economy is shot to pieces and no one is coming because the news makes it sound dangerous. Im starting my PADI diving tomorrow, for half the price it would cost me in Thailand! Ive never dived, but this is too good an opportunity to miss. If we come again, Id be happy to show other MYHANSE users how. By the way, Im 2 berths away from a 470 German flagged |
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Mark&Catherine
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Prevailing wind in the Red Sea is from the North, so downwind all the way, next February and March its all upwind to get back
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Mark&Catherine
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This is me learning to dive at Hurghada. I wanted to learn so that i could dive on the boat, but I've found that its great fun just diving and looking at the sea bed and fish. Egypt is a very cheap place to learn, PADI open water for less than 200 US. There are lots of dive centres, and a lot of Russian tourists. There are very few 'westerners', I think we are put off by the news, but in fact it feels very safe here. The Navy are interested in who we are and what we are doing, which Cathie says is a good thing, and the people want to know why there aren't more of us here. Getting here is of course a bit of a treck, but we are still in shorts and t shirts at the end of November, and we are eating cheaply (but well) and we can by wine and beer without any problem. The sailing is pretty good, Northerlies 10-20 Kts most of the time, and there are lots of reefs and islands to search out. Other boats that we meet are very welcoming because there are so few of us. One thing to watch though are the local boats, fishing, diving, tourist, I dont think any of them have read the COLREGS. Even when local meets local, its like the roads, lots of hand jestures and shouting, no rules. We called up a motor boat yesterday that was bearing down on us, we were under full sail and they had apparently no clue what to do. I called on 16 and they were completely shocked that I had done so, but did back off and go round my Stern. The authorities are not used to us, and therefore there is a bit of confusion about how to deal with us, but that is about the worst of it, otherwise its an interesting place to be for a season.
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