Les Sables d'Olonne shrinks time. Just as the Vendee Globe records have fallen (see Ad Lib 92), Stargazer's week in port has flown by. Le Quatorze (Bastille Day) will soon be upon us. It is the time, in our annual migration, to turn north.
The faithful Vent Nocturn, which bore Stargazer south, can no longer a helping hand. Now that it has become a headwind.
Fortunately, after a middle of the day stalemate, whilst the Vent Nocturne and Vent Solaire tussle for supremacy, oft as not, a south wind springs up during the afternoon.
Stargazer intends to partially test a Vent Solaire driven strategy tomorrow. Within the constraints of timing our arrival to coincide with high water. For, the tide is not to be trifled with in our next Vendee port of call.
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