Wednesday, May 11, 2011

Brest!

150 miles in the last 24hrs and we are nackered!
A good fast crossing from Falmouth, but the wind didnt veer as predicted so we spent 15 hours bashing upwind against proper Atlantic swells. Magnum and Heidi handled it all with aplomb keeping up a good average with no interference from us which was just as well as we took a bit of a pasteing and I have never seen so many ships, most were courteous and altered course to give us room, but one caused me to take avoiding action by trying to pass 300ft in front of us, git!
Still here safe and we also managed to make the tidal gate at chenal du four so we carried straight on to Brest without stopping. Currently anchored in a beautiful bay with just birds for company....bliss :-)

What a spectacular site 2 hours out of Falmouth - The Bounty on passage to Plymouth

The container ship stopped to take a better look! 

 Queen Victoria passing very closely in the middle of the night on passage to Barcelona



1 comment:

  1. Hi Both,

    Congratulations on your trip! The boat looks great.

    Bon Voyages
    Greg

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