October 4, 2005
What’s going on in Cairo guys?
And then we’re off… erm…. Well sort of.
After leaving the port for about 20 minutes the engine broke down. The masts were down as we had hopefully prepared for a Nile paperwork miracle. There were 2-3 metre waves. Overall prognosis: not good.
Possible solution: Tow with inflatable. Mmmm…. Not much movement occurring except the Anna rolling from side to side.
Adventure over? Uwe managed to get the engine up and running.
Not quite the line towing the inflatable broke and quicker than you can say “Thank-goodness-we-never-have-to-go-back-to-the-stinky
-port-in-Alexandria” the rope wrapped itself merrily around the propeller. After a bit of nifty maneuvering, Leo was able to get into the abandoned inflatable and we could again. Imagine my delight when Captain Heiner announced that we would return once again to the commercial port.
So here we sit on anchor just outside the port. Tonight Uwe will work his magic on the engine, Leo will sort the propeller and we will all put up the masts. At first light tomorrow we will really be off……… not his time I mean it.
What’s going on in Cairo guys?
Donna Mattfield
Posted by Hussein at October 4, 2005 1:45 PM
Comments
A lot has happened in Cairo.
While you were wrestling boredom and the elements in Alex port, we managed to pull off the exhibition.
Anna and its crew were never absent from our talks.
I hope we can meet sometime.
Posted by: Ahmad Gharbeia (volunteer) at October 7, 2005 6:13 PM
Suggestion.
I saw your posters in Tel Aviv, I was aching to write about your landing in Israel for local papers, but I found no contact numbers! PLEASE try and make your voyages more media friendly, so that people know when you come into port.
Karin Kloosterman
Freelance Journalist
Posted by: karin kloosterman at October 10, 2005 8:46 AM
Hi Karin,
You can get in touch with us via email through
my adress- ido.gideon@il.greenpeace.org,
or call the office (working hours) at
03-6298220.
Ido.
Posted by: Ido Gideon at October 16, 2005 6:03 PM