On 2012-04-01, Bruce wrote:
On Sat, 31 Mar 2012 16:47:22 +0100, Justin C
wrote:

On 2012-03-31, Bruce wrote:

The following was received from a friend now sailing up the Red Sea.

Interesting reading, Bruce. Out of interest, what is the
guy sailing?

Justin.

He has a 36ft Prout Cat, solar panels, a wind generator, and a
watermaker. He has, I believe, a Honda portable 3 KW generator set and
he cans most of his meat himself. The boat has a 4 cyl. Yanmar and
that outboard looking single leg drive to the prop.

A cat?! I hear that cruising cats don't point, that would explain the
difficult forward progress... but burying the bow as far as the mast
- that probably doesn't help either?! I'd have run for cover *long*
ago.

Good luck to him, I hope he gets there soon, spring is upon us and
summer in the med could be quite nice... though maybe expensive.

I'd be interested to find out how Egypt has changed following it's
revolution. Is travelling Suez any easier? Are they still trying to
rip you off at every turn? (not that I'm going that way any time
soon).

Justin.