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... sail well close to the wind.8 + They sailed best with the wind abeam or astern and would have had great difficulty sailing into any sort of head wind.8 85 As for sailing seasons : there was a generally accepted season from late March ...
... sail well close to the wind.8 + They sailed best with the wind abeam or astern and would have had great difficulty sailing into any sort of head wind.8 85 As for sailing seasons : there was a generally accepted season from late March ...
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... sail towards Cyprus , which as Patricia Bikai has pointed out , is certainly one of the easiest routes in the Mediterranean.9 It may be supposed that it would be easier to sail along the North African coast . However , sailors have ...
... sail towards Cyprus , which as Patricia Bikai has pointed out , is certainly one of the easiest routes in the Mediterranean.9 It may be supposed that it would be easier to sail along the North African coast . However , sailors have ...
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... Sailing along the south coast is possible , where there were probably reasonable harbours in antiquity , but strong gusts that came down from the mountains mean that it is best to sail at least 5 miles offshore . ' 110 It should be ...
... Sailing along the south coast is possible , where there were probably reasonable harbours in antiquity , but strong gusts that came down from the mountains mean that it is best to sail at least 5 miles offshore . ' 110 It should be ...
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