Failure to Launch -- Again

Wave estimates for Saturday ... Purple is 7+ meter waves

Our plan was to leave Herzliya on Thursday morning for Turkey – bypassing Cyprus – about 325 miles. We’d leave around 10 am and arrive at the tip of Cyprus about a day later, then another day or so to get to Turkey. Unfortunately, we waited until Thursday because Jessie was playing her final soccer game on Wednesday evening. The challenge is that there’s a big storm coming from west of Italy stirring up good sized winds (not really the problem) and massive waves. 

Wind from the west 30-35 knots

After consulting a number of people including the local North Sails guy (a terrific guy ... I wish I could have bought a sail from him), Easy Swissa, who strongly advised us to stay …. We decided to defer our departure day for somewhere between 4 and 7 days. The Mediterranean is fairly shallow and when a strong westerly blows, it has a thousand or so miles of fetch … and that makes the waves big. Very very big, like 10 meters high. That’s enough to ruin your day, so we opted to stay here in Herzliya until the next opening in a few days from now.