For more than 40 years, Abdel Moneim Abdel Halim Sayed sought evidence to expand our knowledge of ancient Egyptian seafaring in texts, images, and along the Red Sea coast. His work in this area provided the first, and for many years, the only physical evidence of a second millennium BCE presence on the Red Sea and inspired a number of students and scholars to further explore questions related to the nature of Egyptian voyages on the Great Green. This brief contribution assesses the impact of Professor Sayed's discoveries at Marsa Gawasis on our understanding of the business of going to sea in the Middle Kingdom through an evaluation of relevant finds from the joint Italian–American expedition at Gawasis currently directed by Rodolfo Fattovich of the University of Naples l'Orientale and Kathryn Bard of Boston University.