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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Rod Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 24 November 2014 at 05:06
Sounds like a tough life Mark - I presume all the racing gear is rigged down?
How's your Arabic , must be fluent after Dubai and now being put into practice!!
Will have to meet up for a dive, as now have my advanced diver certs and need some warm water with more fish, although I was chatting to an Egyptian colleague who said to watch out for the sharks - in the Red Sea!
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Mark&Catherine Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 24 November 2014 at 06:49
Yes Im back to self tacker and only 2 of my red and white sails on board!  Also loaded down with all sorts of BBQs, chairs extra water and fuel, the dinghy and so on.  But we still managed 8.4 knots upwind the other day, and surfed at 14 downwind with the Furlstrom up (see my facebook for a few shots.

Diving here is quite cheap, we will be hanging around in Hurghada in March next year if you want to pop over, we have some good contacts.

Haven't seen a shark yet, local advice is to stay low and still, assume its the same everywhere? 
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Lippe Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 25 November 2014 at 16:04
Good to hear that you sailed again downwind with furlström. Referring to what we wrote in "downwind sails" I ordered furlström also. It is coming soon from Denmark.

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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Mark&Catherine Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 26 November 2014 at 05:21
Hi Kari, You will love it, we use it a lot because its so easy, and adds boat speed in light winds.
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote monty7442 Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 26 November 2014 at 07:38
Hi mark
I'm just trying to work out how you got the boat from dubai to suez? Did you sail south out of the gulf and north up the red sea but that wouldn't make sense with your postcard. And maybe a bit dodgy route!
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Mark&Catherine Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 26 November 2014 at 14:11
Hi Monty,

No we didn't sail because we didn't want to risk pirates, although we know someone that will sail boats round into the red sea for you, but he didnt want to go at the time we needed.

So we shipped the boat with SevenStar to Turkey.  My sister has a flat near Bodrum, so we re stepped the mast there.  It wasn't the cheapest place to go, it was much cheaper to go to somewhere like amsterdam because more ships do that route, but we wanted to join the rally which started in Cyprus.  
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote monty7442 Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 26 November 2014 at 14:46
Hi Mark,

That makes sense now. It seemed to me it would have been a a very big adventure to go round the horn but you hadn't mentioned it therefore I was trying to figure out how you had got to the top of the Red SeaConfusedConfused
Anyway keep the postcards coming, its certainly more exotic that what is a very wet, dreary Blighty at the moment.  


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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Mark&Catherine Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 11 January 2015 at 07:10
Hi all, we are back on board after Christmas with family and friends.  Six boats have set off south from Hurghada, after completing paperwork it was a gentle 3 hour downwind cruise to our first anchorage.  Its nice to be out again, we have a lot of repacking to do, finding long term storage for suitcases and boat cover that we might not need until April or May.  

We are staying here in Marsa Abu Makhadiq today, will bake bread, inflate the tender and tidy the boat.  Our next leg south is designed to find us a great BBQ spot for one of our many parties.  Life is good.

For those interested our multi entry visas and cruising permits appear to be OK, although the officials are concerned that we 'flee' egypt without the proper forms (the agent will be in trouble if we do).  We have no intention of doing so, but they are more used to transiting yachts than those that just come for sun and a sail round!

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Here are the Photos of our anchorage.  


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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Mark&Catherine Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 20 January 2015 at 07:25
Here is our new Mossie screen, covers the cockpit and all the side windows so we can get most vventilation.
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