In April we left Abu Tig marina and did a 30 hour passage to Port Suez.  We arrived in Port Suez on the 6th. of April and spent 2 days on a mooring while we waited to enter the canal.  The transit took another 2 days with an overnight stop at Ismaliya.  When we reached Port Said late in the afternoon of the second day, we dropped the pilot and kept going, arriving in Tel Aviv the following afternoon, the 10th. of April..

 

Approaching the Gulf of Suez...lots of oil rigs and shipping.

 

 

Moored nose to tail at the Suez Yacht Club

 

 

The club house at the Yacht Club

 

 

A French submarine leading the morning convoy heading north

 

 

Our friends on "Zampa" entering the canal next to an LNG tanker

 

 

Fishermen on the Great Bitter Lake playing chicken with a car carrier

 

 

Our pilot hard at work

 

 

Fishermen sailing home on the Great Bitter Lake

 

 

Soldiers exercising with a pontoon bridge.  There must have been at

least 30 pontoon bridges along the canal.

 

 

Guard post...there were armed sentries at least every 500 metres.

 

 

Approaching an Anzac bridge lookalike

 

 

Over taken by the  Queen Victoria.  Ships do nine knots in the canal,

and we did 7 -8 knots

 

 

Ismaliya Yacht Club  - run by the Suez Canal Authority

 

 

The historic Port Authority building at Port Said

 

 

Mosque at Port Said

 

 

Israel patrol boat checks us out

 

 

Approaching Tel Aviv