5 August - Morgat to Ste Evette
48: 00.55N
04:32.42W
The wind was “meant” to be northwesterly; but turned out to be WSW – which meant the wind was on the nose out of the bay of Douarnenez to the Pte de Bretagne. Once into the Raz de Sein and the southgoing tide we were able to bear off but the wind was light, and it was clear that the trip down to Penmarc’h and round to southern Brittany was going to be too long. So we peeled off and went back down the Pte de breatgne abot 7 miles to Audierne, where we anchored outside at Ste Evette. There were some buoys, but they were very close together so we elected to anchor with a trip line but made very heavy weather – the trip line fouling the anchor chain twice.
Starting to run out of UK food. We ate almost the last of the passage food at lunchtime – sausage rolls and pork pies. A trip to the supermarket calls! The benefit of the freezer felt this evening – I cooked a chilli using mince from the freezer, and then froze the remains in a jar for later use. The freezer doesn’t appear to be particularly heavy on electricity and the reassurance from reserve food stocks is immense. The vegetables are holding up well although I had to throw out a mouldy rotten carrot this evening.
The wind was “meant” to be northwesterly; but turned out to be WSW – which meant the wind was on the nose out of the bay of Douarnenez to the Pte de Bretagne. Once into the Raz de Sein and the southgoing tide we were able to bear off but the wind was light, and it was clear that the trip down to Penmarc’h and round to southern Brittany was going to be too long. So we peeled off and went back down the Pte de breatgne abot 7 miles to Audierne, where we anchored outside at Ste Evette. There were some buoys, but they were very close together so we elected to anchor with a trip line but made very heavy weather – the trip line fouling the anchor chain twice.
Starting to run out of UK food. We ate almost the last of the passage food at lunchtime – sausage rolls and pork pies. A trip to the supermarket calls! The benefit of the freezer felt this evening – I cooked a chilli using mince from the freezer, and then froze the remains in a jar for later use. The freezer doesn’t appear to be particularly heavy on electricity and the reassurance from reserve food stocks is immense. The vegetables are holding up well although I had to throw out a mouldy rotten carrot this evening.
