Day 295 – 19. February 2014

After a really needed sleep we woke up and planned to sail to Tel Aviv.

A friend of Elad was coming with us and while we waited for his arrival I was looking at the other boat at the marina.

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Some nice established gentlemen invited me for a tea and listened to my story. We had a nice conversation and they offered me help to find a boat back to Turkey.

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After Elad´s friend Roni arrived we had breakfast. We left the harbour and set sail.

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Today the wind was excellent. Steady northern winds of 15-25 Kts. After we got out of the Haifa bay we shifted the sails to so called butterfly and had a very smooth and fast ride to Tel Aviv.

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It took us only 10 hours with an average of 5,5 Kts to reach our destination.

After the sunset we had an amazing view on the skyline of Tel Aviv.

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Roni had to go back to Haifa and we said good buy. He picked the best day to take a day off and sail with us.

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Day 295: 55,17 Nm (102,17 km) sailing  all: 9803 km