Panulirus's Web Diary - Vannes again after 15 years

Vannes again after 15 years

Panulirus

CR and KN Williams

Mon 26 Aug 2019 14:10

47.39N 2.46W

26^th August, 2019 Vannes, Morbihan

Arrived back in Vannes, lovely as ever. We even have hot weather.

Spent 3 days in Port Halguen and saw Robert and family several times including a morning ½ mile swim across the bay with me escorting them in

Robert’s dinghy.

K

Blog Entries

2025

Jan 2025

Fri 24 Jan 02:52
- Big gap in our blogs!

2024

Apr 2024

Mon 22 Apr 16:39
- Back in PLF after winter lay-up

2023

May 2023

Fri 12 May 17:47
- Windy and rainy weather in Brittany

Apr 2023

Sat 22 Apr 15:36
- Back after a long stay in Blighty

2022

Aug 2022

Sat 27 Aug 08:30
- Piriac – Pornic – Cruesty – Vannes – Cruesty – Port Louis
Fri 12 Aug 13:05
- Lorient - Port Louis - Port Haliguen - Piriac
Thu 4 Aug 16:00
- In Lorient for new mainsail

Jun 2022

Fri 24 Jun 11:10
- Pornic
Wed 22 Jun 13:01
- Les Sables d'Olonne
Tue 21 Jun 12:37
- Back in Brittany for a month, now in La Rochelle.

Apr 2022

Fri 8 Apr 09:12
- Returned to PLF for 2/52

2021

Sep 2021

Sat 4 Sep 16:16
- Re-visiting old local haunts

Aug 2021

Tue 31 Aug 15:57
- Back again again!
Sun 29 Aug 16:42
- Returned after two months in Wimbledon

Jun 2021

Sat 26 Jun 09:43
- Survived Brexit and Covid, back in Port La Foret

2020

Sep 2020

Sun 20 Sep 15:24
- Back home for the Winter

Aug 2020

Thu 27 Aug 12:00
- Pottering around South Brittany
Wed 12 Aug 09:18
- Squeezed into France days before we were told not to travel!

Jul 2020

Sat 18 Jul 18:41
- A two mile sea trial to Concarneau
Mon 13 Jul 18:38
- Back in Port La Foret as soon as we were allowed to leave Blighty

2019

Oct 2019

Fri 4 Oct 18:01
- Back to PLF for 2 weeks of nesting

Sep 2019

Fri 6 Sep 09:45
- Back in Port La Foret = complete circumnavigation in only 13.4 years (apart from Somalia)
Mon 2 Sep 15:58
- Lorient

Aug 2019

Sat 31 Aug 17:22
- Four lovely hot days in Vannes, now in Crouesty
Mon 26 Aug 14:10
- Vannes again after 15 years
Sat 24 Aug 15:59
- Back in our old stamping grounds
Wed 21 Aug 15:06
- Left Ile d'Yeu for Pornic
Tue 20 Aug 14:34
Thu 15 Aug 08:22
- Back in La Rochelle

Jul 2019

Fri 5 Jul 15:46
- Boat left in La Rochelle until early August

Jun 2019

Sun 30 Jun 12:27
- Stay at La Rochelle for a break back home
Sun 23 Jun 11:13
- Gijon, 13 years on
Thu 20 Jun 16:36
- Shortish hop East to Ribidero
- steadily north against wind and swell
Mon 17 Jun 19:03
- La Corruna
- At last a decent hop Northwards
Thu 6 Jun 11:57
- Still in Muros, more breakages and foul weather

May 2019

Fri 31 May 12:23
- Back in Reas and keen to go North

Apr 2019

Thu 4 Apr 19:45
- Back in the Reas

2018

Oct 2018

Mon 1 Oct 13:58
- Journey's end for this year

Sep 2018

Wed 26 Sep 13:20
- Penultimate (for us) Ria
Fri 21 Sep 19:15
- Trip across the bay
Wed 19 Sep 19:07
- Vilagarcia, the next Ria
Thu 13 Sep 15:20
- Baiona, the first of the Rias
Mon 10 Sep 14:48
- Porto, 2nd city as is Birmingham - but nicer
Wed 5 Sep 17:38
- Half way up Portugal
Sat 1 Sep 18:23
- Nazare, after 39 years

Aug 2018

Tue 28 Aug 11:41
- Circumnavigation complete (sort of)
Mon 20 Aug 12:28
- Overnight to Lisbon

Jul 2018

Sun 8 Jul 14:25
- Lagos (Portugal not Nigeria)
Wed 4 Jul 14:23
- Anchoring near Faro

Jun 2018

Sat 30 Jun 14:20
- Go West old man (and woman)
Sat 16 Jun 17:19
- Back in the water at last

May 2018

Fri 11 May 11:13
- Back in Cadiz (again) hopefully with guarded good news
Sun 6 May 11:44
- Still waiting in Cadiz

Apr 2018

Tue 10 Apr 11:27
- Blown over by a tornado in Cadiz, big hole in hull

2017

Sep 2017

Tue 12 Sep 17:14
- Cadiz for the next 6 months
Sun 10 Sep 10:14
- Barbarte, back in the Atlantic
Thu 7 Sep 10:02
- next to, but thanks to the Foreign Office not in, Gibralter
Sat 2 Sep 11:40
- Costa del Crime

Aug 2017

Tue 29 Aug 10:54
- Further south down the Costa del Sol
Thu 24 Aug 10:34
- Cartagena
Tue 22 Aug 13:02
- Back on mainland Spain

Jun 2017

Sat 17 Jun 09:03
- FISHING NETS near Palma
Wed 14 Jun 08:38
- Soller with trams,trains and hotel
Sat 3 Jun 07:06
- Menorca to Mallorca
Thu 1 Jun 14:55
- Mahon / Menorca to Cuitadella

May 2017

Mon 29 May 14:35
- Menorca (mahon)
Wed 24 May 08:01
- Fertilia to Mahon/Menorca
Wed 10 May 14:15
- return to Fertilia (again)

2016

Sep 2016

Mon 26 Sep 11:49
- back in Sardinia

Jul 2016

Fri 15 Jul 11:24
- left Italy

May 2016

Sun 8 May 08:12
- Syracuse

Apr 2016

Sat 23 Apr 14:28
- Back in Gozo

2015

Sep 2015

Tue 8 Sep 09:06
- safely in GOZO = Malta

Jun 2015

Thu 25 Jun 06:51
- drifting South
Sun 14 Jun 08:15
- through the Corinth canal

May 2015

Tue 19 May 08:38
- safe in Athens
Fri 8 May 06:43
- mainland Greece (well Hydra)

Apr 2015

Mon 20 Apr 14:50
- Greece
Sat 18 Apr 08:06
- Back on track

2014

Oct 2014

Tue 7 Oct 15:15
- Not much to say in Bozburan

Sep 2014

Mon 15 Sep 07:16
- Bozburun
Thu 4 Sep 07:53
- back in Turkey

May 2014

Fri 16 May 14:56
- back in Turkey

2013

Oct 2013

Mon 14 Oct 08:41
- 6 weeks in Turkey, now back to the UK

Jul 2013

Fri 12 Jul 16:19
- various old haunts, back to Ciftlik
Tue 2 Jul 18:00
- Orhaniye

Jun 2013

Sat 29 Jun 10:08
- Ephesus and Pamukkale
Wed 19 Jun 09:08
- on our way to pastures new
Sun 16 Jun 14:48
- Back to Ogun's place
Sun 9 Jun 15:08
- Orhanye hopefully picture in the right place!

May 2013

Tue 21 May 07:17
- Still in Marmaris - everything getting better

Apr 2013

Sun 14 Apr 10:16
- Nesting in Marmaris
Sun 7 Apr 12:06
- Marmaris

Feb 2013

Sat 23 Feb 01:51
- Boat Lagoon, hopefully with pictures
Tue 12 Feb 10:09
- Cambodia January 2013
- Thai islands off Phuket, Jumbo prawns
Mon 4 Feb 08:45
- West coast of Phuket

Jan 2013

Wed 23 Jan 13:32
- back Boat Lagoon, Phuket

2012

Dec 2012

Wed 5 Dec 06:01
- Happy Face in Phuket

Nov 2012

Mon 26 Nov 02:36
- Thailand
Fri 23 Nov 05:45
- Phuket
- Replacing the loo outlet
Mon 19 Nov 01:01
- Langkawi
Mon 12 Nov 23:47
- still in Pangkor

Apr 2012

Wed 11 Apr 01:27
- back on the hard in Pangkor

Mar 2012

Sat 31 Mar 03:39
- caves at Mo Muk
Sat 24 Mar 01:26
- staying in, and leaving, Phuket
Sat 3 Mar 03:30
- Phuket

Feb 2012

Mon 20 Feb 04:42
- Langkawi - last stop before Thailand
Wed 8 Feb 05:23
- Pangkor to Penang

Jan 2012

Sun 29 Jan 11:03
- half way to Thailand
Fri 27 Jan 04:26
- Left Pureri Harbour, now in Port Dickson

2011

Oct 2011

Fri 14 Oct 11:15
- Singapore
- rally is over, on the way to Singapore. Sadly left the superb "Sail Indonesia"
Mon 3 Oct 02:43
- from Borneo to Belitung
Sun 2 Oct 01:31
- orang utans

Sep 2011

Wed 28 Sep 07:51
- Fw: Borneo : apologies to the Attenboroughs
- Borneo
Sun 25 Sep 13:29
- en route to Borneo
Wed 14 Sep 00:48
- from Lombok to Bali
Sun 4 Sep 04:07
- Dragons at last!
Fri 2 Sep 05:26
- SOG -0.2 at full revs

Aug 2011

Fri 26 Aug 12:58
- Riung with no dragons
Mon 15 Aug 03:58
- one Indonesian anchorage to another
Fri 12 Aug 04:10
- leaving Lembata
Tue 9 Aug 02:37
- recovering from a gala dinner in Lembata
Thu 4 Aug 09:35
- moved NE in Indonesia

Jul 2011

Wed 27 Jul 01:08
- now in Kupang, Indonesia - a new Continent! Joined "Sail Indonesia"
Mon 25 Jul 07:43
- half way to Timor
Fri 22 Jul 23:41
- leaving Darwin

May 2011

Sat 21 May 06:38
- safely in Darwin
Wed 18 May 03:07
- At sea
Sat 14 May 06:01
- run aground in Northern Queennsland
Thu 12 May 03:08
- North Queensland coast (and breakdowns)
Thu 5 May 01:26
- Cairns

Apr 2011

Fri 29 Apr 22:36
- Airlie Beach for new radar
Mon 25 Apr 05:57
- back on the sea
Sun 10 Apr 23:46
- sun in Queensland
Mon 4 Apr 07:50
- back in soggy Mackay for 2011

2010

Nov 2010

Mon 22 Nov 07:48
- still wet and windy in Oz
Thu 18 Nov 23:27
- internet free zone
Tue 9 Nov 07:44
- back in Oz, lots to do

Aug 2010

Thu 12 Aug 08:14
- Sydney
Sat 7 Aug 06:33
- in Australia
Thu 5 Aug 06:22
- inside Great Barrier Reef
Wed 4 Aug 12:58
- Great Barrier Reef
Sun 1 Aug 04:52
- half way to AUS

Jul 2010

Thu 29 Jul 02:02
- duvet & oilies
Tue 27 Jul 06:33
- leaving New Caledonia
Sun 25 Jul 03:21
- lobsters
Thu 22 Jul 22:04
- New Caledonia
Sun 18 Jul 16:43
- windy weather
Sat 17 Jul 19:41
- crowded seas and dangerous volcanos
Fri 16 Jul 16:39
- Is it a bird, is it a plane?
Thu 15 Jul 20:15
- open sea
- Fiji to New Caledonia
Tue 13 Jul 05:27
- waiting for a weather window
Sun 11 Jul 05:22
- back in mainland Fiji, leaving in the next day or so
Sun 4 Jul 20:02
- Nirvana
Sat 3 Jul 04:21
- Fiji. Moved from 'soggy Suva' to the 'Island side'

Jun 2010

Mon 28 Jun 02:38
- we are now half way round the world!
Sun 27 Jun 20:23
- Here be monsters:
Fri 25 Jun 14:18
- En route to Fiji after paella in Rapana Island, Nei' afu
Sun 20 Jun 03:33
- free at last
Thu 17 Jun 22:56
- starter motors
Sun 13 Jun 03:51
- Nei'afu,Tonga Sublime singing (not us) in church
Sat 12 Jun 06:54
- Tonga ignominy
Fri 11 Jun 11:51
- nearly there (Tonga that is)
Wed 9 Jun 11:37
- night watch
Mon 7 Jun 18:31
- en route to Tonga
Sat 5 Jun 17:16
- en route to Tonga
Tue 1 Jun 04:17
- Aitutaki

May 2010

Sat 29 May 03:25
- Aitutaki
Mon 17 May 00:35
- Rarotonga after absolutely vile CPCZ weather
Tue 11 May 22:46
- left Bora Bora for Cook Islands
Fri 7 May 20:41
- Bora Bora
Wed 5 May 20:56
- Off at last, from Raiatea to Bora Bora

2009

Oct 2009

Mon 26 Oct 19:08
- Taha / Raiatea
Mon 19 Oct 20:49
- moving from one side of Huahine to the other
Sun 18 Oct 04:14
- Polynesia for now
Thu 1 Oct 20:24
- Moorea, complete with (no) Tsunami and engine failure X2

Sep 2009

Wed 30 Sep 03:09
- moved at last! from Tahiti to nearby Moorea
Sun 13 Sep 18:24
- Back in Tahiti from UK

May 2009

Sat 30 May 03:02
- settled in Tahiti
Fri 29 May 18:56
- Papeete, Tahiti
Wed 20 May 22:32
- end of the last long bit for a while - Rangirora in Tuamotus
Tue 19 May 06:02
- 2 days out of the Tuamotus
Sun 17 May 04:13
- onwards to Tuamotus
Sat 9 May 03:20
- ARRIVED in Nuku Hiva, Marquesas. Guy left for UK
Sun 3 May 18:23
- 250 to go
Fri 1 May 03:31
- 5 days to go

Apr 2009

Mon 27 Apr 19:32
- only about 8 days to go
Fri 24 Apr 22:55
- nearly 2/3 rds
Wed 22 Apr 00:35
- almost half way
Mon 20 Apr 23:05
- over 1/3 the way
- mid-Pacific (still)
Thu 16 Apr 00:31
- 1st part of the big Pacific leg
Mon 13 Apr 19:02
- left Galapagos, en route to the Marquesas
Wed 8 Apr 00:26
- closer to Galapagos
Tue 7 Apr 00:05
- approaching Galapagos
Sun 5 Apr 17:51
- ... crossed the equator
Sat 4 Apr 00:27
- ... pacific ...
Thu 2 Apr 23:17
- Pacific - cont
Wed 1 Apr 19:55
- all quiet on the Pacific front

Mar 2009

Mon 30 Mar 23:40
- Pacific Ocean at last.Australian chap gave us a 200l fuel bladder
Sun 29 Mar 18:52
- Through the Canal, now in Panama City. Guy has arrived
Fri 13 Mar 18:30
- Shelter Bay, Fort Sherman, Panama

2008

Dec 2008

Thu 4 Dec 12:09
- 2/3rds the way to Panama

Nov 2008

Sun 30 Nov 20:16
- left Curacao, en route to Panama

Apr 2008

Tue 15 Apr 14:07
- Curacao

Mar 2008

Sun 2 Mar 21:55
- Seru Boca marina, fin de vacances, this bit looks like Isandlwala

Feb 2008

Fri 29 Feb 12:48
- now in Curacao
Thu 21 Feb 13:29
- still in Los Roques
Wed 20 Feb 13:37
- Los Roques
Sun 17 Feb 21:03
- Panulirus - tortuga
Wed 13 Feb 20:44
- piracy reports
- Still in Maragarita
Thu 7 Feb 20:05
- Islas de Margaritas
Tue 5 Feb 09:37
- Arrived in Margaritas, Venezaula
Sun 3 Feb 18:58
- from Grenada to Testigos islands, Venezula
Fri 1 Feb 17:18
- back on boat 2 weeks ago, now leaving Grenada

2007

May 2007

Thu 31 May 16:05
- end of trip in Phare Blue Bay, Grenada
Fri 25 May 15:38
- Union Island, Tobago Cays
Mon 21 May 15:42
- overnight to Bequia
Tue 15 May 22:56
- robbed in Martinique
Sun 13 May 22:20
- chic Martinique
Fri 11 May 21:30
- Dominica, May 11th
- aborted trip to Guadeloupe, in Dominica instead
Fri 4 May 21:15
- Long Gap! Catmarina in Antigua, after St Lucia,Martinique,UK,cricket WC,St Jame's

2006

Dec 2006

Sun 17 Dec 21:13
- days 20 to 22, arriving early tomorrow morning!
Mon 11 Dec 21:45
- Days 14 to 16, 850 nm to go
Fri 8 Dec 16:26
- days 11-13
Tue 5 Dec 15:19
- 1742 miles to St Lucia
Sat 2 Dec 17:41
- days 5 to 7
- day4_picture

Nov 2006

Wed 29 Nov 14:53
- log entry PANULIRIS ARC239

Sep 2006

Sat 30 Sep 15:37
- Fw: first try