Stargazer has discovered her very own anchorage. Not mentioned in any of the pilot books. But looking suitably sheltered and craggy on the chart.
We leave the sylvian delights of the La Penze river an hour before low water. When the depths in the channel will be at their shallowest - but the hazards within it, most visible.
Winds are light. Perfect for this kind of intricate pilotage. There is time to reconcile what the eye sees with what paper chart and plotter say is there.
And time to marvel at our surroundings.
Stargazer faces a wall of tumbled granite. I bring her over to starboard, about thirty degrees. A gap opens up. A jagged rock head is visible to port. The chart says that there’s a submerged rock off the starboard bow. Where a pot marker buoy bobs. That will be over the shoal, I reason. The pots are laid among the rocks which shelter crab and lobster.
The bay opens up to either side us, as Stargazer feels her way in. Two arms of riven ‘granit rose’ jutting out to sea - like a protective lobster claw. At its head, a broad sandy beach - where we anchor.
PS. If the layout looks odd today ‘Please Do Not Adjust Your Set’ - as TV stations used to say. To conserve laptop battery, whilst at anchor, I posted the photos from the laptop and added text via the phone app. Worked OK for the previous two days - but not today. No matter, we’re on pure phone app now - until we next see mains electricity.
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