I collect Stargazer's new Hydranet jib from Crusader Sails' loft and rush aboard to hoist it.
Feeling pleased and hungry I duck below for lunch. A ripe Brie beckons.... But there's something missing. I need a crusty French baguette to go with it.
I cast off Stargazer's lines. She beats down harbour to Blood Alley in a NE 5.
The wooded cliff shelters our anchorage as I work out the tides for Cherbourg.
We leave at dawn. It's blowing an Easterly 5. Stargazer romps across Channel - she reels off 67 nautical miles in nine and a half hours.
Our new sail pulls like a train!
Stargazer barrels in past the breakwater.....
.... to arrive amid the relaxed industry of Cherbourg by mid afternoon.
I make her fast.....
.....and walk in to town, with salt spiked hair and a broad grin,
...to find a crusty French baguette and juicy sun ripened tomatoes, to eat with my Brie.
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