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From: P.Mazagran (no email)
Date: Wed Apr 06 2005 - 21:10:00 EDT
You are right, it is on the northern side of the Gulf of Aden, 550nm
long, but only 80nm wide in the west, 240nm in the east. Usually yachts
stay more north as Somalia in the south is even more dangerous. They did
not have any government for almost decades, the country is controlled by
war-lords. I was quite afraid when we passed there and we stayed exactly
in the middle of the gulf, no lights at night. Maybe for
American-flagged yachts Yemen became much more dangerous, but recently
some German businessmen were held for ransom too.
On the western end is Djibouti, a former French territory, the UN-aid
for central Africa is unloaded here, very poor, dirty, sandy, corrupt
dry place, at least in 1999. Most yachties suggested to buy food here,
it was terrible expensive. A few days later we had wonderful fruits and
veggies in Port Sudan and a very friendly welcome. The meat market might
not be to western standards.
It is very easy to forget any crew members here, no country ever asked
for a crew list, so, if you forget to count them yourself....
Nowhere else we caught as many fish as here
Peter
KenJames wrote:
> I belive that Yeman lies in the way of the transit of the Red Sea following
> a Suez transit....no way to avoid it I suppose, unless you would rather deal
> with the Cape. Maybe somebody has already pinted this out.-Ken
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