Channel Islands & France 2025

326.5 nautical miles travelled, 64 hours and 3 minutes sailed, 2 islands, 1 anchorage and 2 countries.

At the start of May 2025 there was a Starcross Yacht Club "cruise in company" to the Channel Islands and France. Derek H kindly offered me a place on his Westerly Fulmar yacht. The table below links to GPS tracks and some photos from that trip.

Click the links below and then perhaps click the "GPS track details" tab on the left hand side of the page to read some overview details of the sailing and then maybe try the "Photos slide show" tab on the right hand side of each page.

There is a "How to use this page" help link at the top of each of the linked to pages - try it out for ideas for things to click!

Activity	Activity date	Activity description
Sail down to Brixham	Thursday 1st May 2025	A sail from Starcross down to Brixham ready for the channel crossing to St Peter Port - Guernsey. Quite a noisy night given it was the lead up to Pirate Weekend at Brixham.
Brixham to Guernsey	Friday 2nd May 2025	A fairly light wind, down wind sail across from Brixham to St Peter Port in Guernsey.
St Peter Port to St Cast in Brittany	Monday 5th May 2025	From St Peter Port on Guernsey across to St Cast in Brittany. Another down wind sail but with stronger winds.
St Cast to Granville in Normandy	Wednesday 7th May 2025	From St Cast on to Granville on the Normandy coast. Heading east to get a better wind angle for the trip back to Guernsey.
Granville to Havre Gosselin, Sark	Thursday 8th May 2025	From Granville around the south of Jersey to the anchorage at Havre Gosselin on Sark.
Sark to St Peter Port	Friday 9th May 2025	From Havre Gosselin, Sark back to Victoria Marina in St Peter Port, Guernsey. We arrived in time to catch much of the 80th anniversary celebrations for Liberation Day.
St Peter Port back to the Exe	Sunday 11th May 2025	No lack of incident or excitement on the long trip back from St Peter Port to the Exe! Almost no wind meant that this was mostly motoring.