Graptolite - Are We Nearly There Yet?
Graptolite's Sailing Log
Martyn Pickup & Heike Richter
Fri 29 May 2009 21:46
Another overnight motor last night got us to the anchorage of Marsa
Thelemet.
We slept all day to catch the northbound tide this evening up to Suez
(hurray!) but 5 miles out this evening we got walloped by 40 knot headwinds
(boo!) which is too much even for the salt-crusted seadogs that we are. We
retreated with our seadog tails between our legs back to where we started.
M