"The patient sailor always has a fair breeze." So the seafarer's saying goes.
This morning, Stargazer's neighbour sailed west, bound for the Raz Blanchard (Alderney Race). With Erin still blowing thirty five knots from the west. Wisely returning three hours later, much the saltier. With a story to dine out on, of the 'survival seastate.'
During tomorrow morning, Erin is forecast to slip away. Leaving a light westerly as her calling card.
If this prediction proves correct, Erin's departure should coincide with the turn of the Channel tide. Rewarding Stargazer's patience with both a fair wind and a favourable tide, for an evening passage east.
Photographic Note
Apologies for the fuzzy focus. Today's wind was strong enough to shake the substantial railings, to which the camera was anchored. The camera was also operating at maximum digital zoom. Making it unusually susceptible to both shake and the 'wind shear' effect, not to mention salt, in the atmosphere.
N.B. All pictures are of the outer harbour. Within the considerable protection of the first of Cherbourg's three sea walls.
Hi Doug,
ReplyDeleteI have enjoyed your summer cruise and felt for you with the various problems you have encountered.
I owned a HR 34 Juniper until this year and sailed it, like you, single handed down into Brittany.
I first visited the area as a teenage crew with Adlard Coles on Cohoe lll in 1967. It is an area I loved and your photos bring back many memories.
It is wonderful to have you on board, Juniper. There is something magical about the Atlantic coast of France. Nigh on the perfect cruising ground. The more so, if first visited in the illustrious company of Adlard Coles, I would imagine. Now there's a tale to tell.......
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