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After getting up an hour too early (confusing French and English first light times!!!), we sailed from Ile de Brehat for St Peter Port on Guernsey. The sail around the north east corner of the Ile de Brehat was notable f…
Up from St Quay-Portreaux to Ile de Brehat. The Ile de Brehat is a small island on a rocky shore. Somewhat similar to Sark (no cars and a very small population like Sark but no cliffs).
After a light wind start, a lovely sail down from St Helier, Jersey to St Quay Portrieux on the Brittany coast. Sailed under cruising chute for most of the way. St Quay has the huge advantage of being an "all tide" port…
A sail across from Salcombe to Roscoff in Brittany on David K's trimaran Triskelle. We had been planning to leave to 4am but at 3am Prawle Point NCI were recording F7 winds. We waited an hour and the winds started to dro…
As we left Roscoff the fog came down pretty hard putting the kibosh on our plans to go through the Chenal De Batz. Shame. So up round the north of the Ile De Batz and on to L'Aber Wrac'h. The sail into L'Aber Wrac'h was…
We had to wait in L'Aber Wrac'h for four days until we got a weather window where there wouldn't be wind against tide in the Chenal Du Four. With the tide turning earlier in the St Mathieu narrows than higher up by L'Ab…
Across from Camaret to Brest. The weatehr was mizzly and murky with visibility of about a mile. As it was light winds and only about 8 miles, we motored across the south side of the Goulet De Brest. Brest is still a nava…
A lovely sail down from the Exe to Salcombe on David K's trimaran Triskelle ahead of sailing across to Roscoff in Brittany. Spent the next day on a mooring buoy off Salcombe Yacht Club making a few preparations ahead of…
The wind was invited but failed to show. The tides were calculated to arrive but we didn't see much more than a knots worth in the Chenal Du Four. Once out of the lee of Ushant we got a tiny bit of Atlantic swell to spee…
Up early to catch the east going tide. Enough wind to sail for the first dozen miles and then motoring sailed on to Roscoff. Too misty to go through the Chenal De Batz and we hadn't quite made the tide. A few more dolphi…
The long trip back from Roscoff to Salcombe. Bit of everything really. I'm not mad keen on dead runs and suspect trimarans aren't either. But the first 40 miles were goose winged (with the first 15 or so having a littl…
And, finally, back to the Exe from Salcombe. The forecast wasn't too promising with northerly winds so we expected a lot of tacking. It was slow for quite a while after we rounded Start Point - from there to Berry Head s…