Throughout a storm swept day, crews seek shelter.
As black squalls darken blue skies.
The Camaret visitor pontoons steadily fill with an eclectic diversity of craft:
A sampan up from the Vilaine.
A Norweigan flagged Neel trimaran down from Oslo. Her scale dwarfing that of a low slung Outremer catamaran of similar length. Which opts to stay on the outside (to leeward) of the wave break.
The French pilot cutter Pegasus arrives from Falmouth. Neatly picking up a mooring buoy.
Which lies part way between the relative calm of the Vauban Tower berths (windbreak required, in the form of sprayhood or sweater) and the total tranquilty of the Vieux Port (polo shirt and perspiration).
Whilst the substantial, steel-built, Rara Avis drops anchor off the beach. To a chiming of ship's bells. There to ride out the gale, beneath the cliffs of the Crozon.
One step ahead of the rest, La Recouvrance made her stately way up to the Rade de Brest, during Sunday's calmer conditions.
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