Thursday 29 May 2014

Whistle Stop Cruise: live update 1

29.5.14 Quai de la Hune, Cherbourg.








There's a fair breeze for France as we leave Studland in the misty dawn.




The sun breaks through mid channel...





... and a piratical tan sailed silhouette, on the horizon turns, out to be the pilot cutter Jolie Brise - maybe heading for the Old Gaffers gathering in Yarmouth.




The breeze veers from NE to W and I break out Stargazer's cruising chute...




....as we cross the eastbound shipping lane and....




....slither across the sluicing channel tide and in under Cherbourg's stalwart Napoleonic battlements.

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Location:Quai de la Hune,Cherbourg-Octeville,France

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