Guestblog Bob Maclaren
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Guestblog by Bob Maclaren.
Eskimos have more than sixty words to describe snow. On the red sea to describe the wind we used just two “fucking wind”. On my three week crossing with The Green Miles from Eritrea to Suez we shouted these two words every day, while the wind hung in our rigging and swore and screamed back at us like a mad Imam. To sail the red sea from south to north is one of sailings “wrong way” challenges. Most people avoid it and go around Africa to get to Europe .The other group are either mad, religious fanatics or drunk. My first meeting with Arjen en Florian at least removed religious fanatics from the list.
Florian and Arjen I met for the first time balanced on the edge of east Africa in the port of Masawa Eritrea. I was arguing with a policeman about being illegal in a port zone without papers ,he listened politely, nodded wisely and then fined me thirty euros cash on the spot . Arjen and Florian showed up in the most dilapidated ........