Now in the yacht club rafted up with a motor boat that has a 10ft gap stern to the pontoon and so well secured to a buoy at the bow that the gap can’t be closed. We had expected to be moored out in the harbour with bow and stern lines to bouys but were hailed to raft up by our agents man (Sahid). So when I was taken ashore by Sahid to be shown the facilities we had to use a gang plank improvised from an old wooden ladder. Said is also fairly old and has plastic vertebrae in his spine so we both struggled.

The yacht club has good showers, and a washing machine but only one small decrepit pontoon to which a few old motor boats are tied. We had thought that Suez could be an option for leaving the boat while we fly home but that idea has been sunk in the last dribble of the Red Sea.