PIER HEAD JUMP FOR NEW CREW
Aquila
Alan and Sarah Bennett
Tue 22 Jul 2014 13:03
Sunday 20 July. Myf and Ian’s travel plans on 19th worked as advertised, and despite the skipper’s best intentions of helping them with their bags, they were suddenly on there on the jetty for the ‘pier head jump’ (phots). This enabled AQUILA (with Myf at the helm - phot) to slip her berth no more than 3 minutes after their arrival, in a bid to make the 35nm to Raz de Sein before the tidal gate shut around 2330. Not at all what I’d normally ask a crew to do on joining, so full marks to the Adams for their pluck and flexibility!
Conditions were flat calm, and with the donk pretty much flat out we made good progress round Pte de Penmarch and across Baie de Audierne – and just made it through Raz de Sein in the gathering dark before the tide was running really hard against us. So Myf and Ian’s sacrifice of a meal in Sainte-Marine was not in vain!
Once through, we felt our way in the dark to a nearby anchorage in the Baie de Trepasses – Ian’s sharp eyes spotting at the last minute an unlit boat in our planned spot. Once settled, we turned in for 5 hours while the foul tide ran, and weighed at dawn (phot) with the first of the fair tide to continue our journey north – still under power in a flat calm.
More later.
