15/5 Day sail from Brest
Awful nights sleep in one of the rolliest anchorages we have ever been in followed by a fantastic days sailing today with some interesting pilotage between various rock formations and with some serious tidal gates to get the timing exact for.
The pilot book states that you MUST arrive at the Raz de Sein within 15 minutes of HW Brest -1/2 and that if you miss this you should reconsider your transit for another day or risk boat sinking overfalls !!! Difficult to achieve such exact timing on a sailboat with variable winds, but we managed it almost perfectly and whistled through with a slack tide wondering what all the fuss was about.
Perfect days sailing with F4 NW winds, blue skies and sunshine all the way. We were convinced today was going to be a dolphin day but alas they decided not to grace us with their presence. ;-(
We arrived in good time at a place called Saint Evette just down the river from Audierne. Very pretty place with beautiful beaches, we are currently anchored just off the visitors buoys as we are too tight to pay !!
Tomorrow we will explore by dingy and try to get a decent 5 day forecast so we can plan our Biscay crossing.
This is our current position - http://maps.google.co.uk/maps/mm?hl=en&ie=UTF8&sll=53.800651,-4.064941&sspn=6.881357,14.941406&ll=48.007755,-4.557996&spn=0.015705,0.058622&z=15
This is our current position - http://maps.google.co.uk/maps/mm?hl=en&ie=UTF8&sll=53.800651,-4.064941&sspn=6.881357,14.941406&ll=48.007755,-4.557996&spn=0.015705,0.058622&z=15
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| Obstacle No.1 |
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| Light house at Raz De Sein |
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| Pretty anchorage just outside Audierne |
It sounds fantastic and would sound even better if i knew what you were talking about with all of those sailing terms :-) sounds like you are enjoying yourselves anyway
ReplyDeletegreat to see the regular updates - makes me sooooooo jealous sat here behind my desk. Take care :-)
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