Acts 27:7

"When we had sailed slowly for. good many days, and with difficulty had arrived off Cnidus" The distance from Myra to the island of Cnidus was 130 miles, and could have been covered in. little more than. day, but the sailing was slow and tedious because of. contrary wind. Cnidus was. harbor on the Carian peninsula called Triopium. "To reach this place they have coasted along Lycia and gone through the straits between Rhodes and the mainland" (Reese p. 895). "Since the wind did not permit us to go farther" "A look at the map will show that at Cnidus the coast of Asia Minor trends away to the north. Once. ship passed Cnidus it would not longer have the shelter of the land; instead it was exposed to the full force of the Etesian winds" (Reese p. 896). At this point the crew has two choices, either spend the winter at Cnidus, or head in. southerly direction until they came under the shelter of Cyprus. "They could gain another hundred miles toward Rome, with the possibility that by that time the winds will have changed and blow from. direction that would permit the rest of the voyage" (Reese p. 896). "We sailed under the shelter of Crete" "Rounding Cape Salmone, they hugged Crete's south coast until they reached Fair Havens" (Stott p. 388).