Camaret sur Mer to L'Aber Wra'ch

Mira's Web Diary
Gordon and Catherine
Sat 28 Jun 2014 14:00

48:35.98N 04:33.64W Camaret is delightful, a slow easy French town with fresh croissants and still-warm bread every morning.  Still, we need to tackle the Chenal du Four, yet another infamous tidal race, so we take the opportunity of a weather window to make the hop up to L’Aber Wra’ch, another 35 miles.  We’re swept up the channel and at one point our speed over the ground is 8.1 kts despite very light wind.  The sea is slight but you can still see the overfalls beginning to bubble.  The channel markers fly by and we’re tied up 2 hours earlier than expected.  Total miles from Gibraltar 1181 – progress indeed.