On Sun, 1 Apr 2012 10:12:56 +0100, Justin C
wrote:

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.

I wouldn't know. All I can say that he had the boat for about 5 years
now and seem perfectly happy with it.

As for running for cover there isn't much of anywhere to run. Neither
coat is what one would refer to as welcoming.

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.

He doesn't stay in marinas much.

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.

Being ripped off is all in the eye of the beholder. On one side it is
"Jeasus, do you know how much that is in American money". On the other
side, it more like, "Ah, here is one of those guys that just blew hell
out of my brother in law."

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Cheers,

Bruce