Dolphins leap, riding Stargazer’s champagne bow wave. Surfing the swell.
Stargazer sweeps majestically north. Making eight knots over the ground. Sixteen knots of breeze on her quarter.
The playful pod ride the waves with Stargazer. Lingering alongside. We catch the free ride together. Exhilarated by the surge, of forward thrust, followed by the downward rush, on this sea-borne roller coaster.
La houle is pumping hard today. Rolling in unchallenged from the Newfoundland Banks, two and a half thousand miles to the west.
At its height off Ile Vierge, where the tide runs hardest and the dolphins sport.
Stargazer beat out of the Rade de Brest, in the wan light of dawn.
To catch the turn of the tide, at the foot of the Chenal du Four.
We ease sheets and hoist the kite, beneath the cliff top towers of Pointe de Saint Matthieu.
Chasing that magical six knot average. Which will unlock nine hours of favourable tide, when bound north.
The breeze obligingly builds through the day. The tide ‘refreshes’ beneath us.
Stargazer swoops past the Ile de Batz, at slack water (the hour before the tide would turn against us), as the sun begins to set. Diving down into the shelter of Roscoff. Past its unsmiling shore.
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