Saturday, November 17, 2007

INTO THE GULF OF AQABA


Friday 16th November
An early, pre-dawn, start was made for Tiran island at the foot of the Gulf of Aqaba. The brightest things around the lagoon at 0600 were the lights of a jack-up rig with its tenders, stacked just outside the East passage out. A pleasant sail to the end of the Gulf of Suez was followed by near calm in the Gulf of Aqaba and the three crews were pleased to slip into the water in the anchorage on the West of Tiran island.

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