Viva Espana

It's been a while since the last post. A lot of water under the boat. The echo sounder failed again and we had to return from Guernsey to Cherbourg, get the boat lifted out and get the echo sounder moved to a new spot on the hull!!


Enough of that - we have now been in Camaret for 2 weeks after a 29 hour sail direct from Alderney. We had planned to visit some of the Brittany rivers but now we want to get moving, We have had a great time here but the last week has been a wait for the storms and strong winds to abate.

There are worse places to wait



 


We have met lots of people, most notably Walter and Monica and their dog Chipsie - they will be going to La Coruna the same day as us.



Also Adrian and Jane from Brightlingsea, with whom Scruffbag has many friends in common  including our good friend Brian Turner who joined us on the first leg of this journey way back in the distant past.

Now the future beckons and the winds are favourable so we will brave the 3 metre swell that is forecast and set of across the Bay of Biscay. It will be my longest ever sail so I approach it with a mixture of excitement and trepidation.

I will let you know how it goes.