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Lady of Avalon
Guy & Deborah Tolson
Tue 7 Jul 2009 08:52
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Tuesday 7th July - 9.30am
Left L,Aber Wrach 2.30am (BST) on Sunday to get
tide to take us thru the big tidal gates of Chanel Du Four and Raz Du Sein,the
idea to do it on one tide span 6 to 7hrs
(imperative to take Raz Du Sein at slack water
with fresh to strong winds), anyway we did it in time and went on to Audiern 10
miles up the coast arriving at 9.30am
Spent a very relaxed day in the sunshine and
managed to sort out Iridium connection issues (in other words I made sure I
configured it properly this time)
That and getting a good clear signal made it happen
and a chance for you to read our riveting
log - I make no apologies for bad grammar/spelling and boring
the pants of you, and put it down to
sleep deprivation / double vision and account of me.
Departed Audiern 10.00am Monday 6th
July
Trough just about on us but winds now forecast
force 4 to 5 S/W and veering N/W later (not force 6 as forecast
yesterday), so decided to leave.
Tuesday had 4 to 5 N/W forecast
Had a Stonking sail, but quite tough at first
with winds S/W sailing at 45deg to wind
wind/ rough sea in 21/22 kts true. (fortunately the continental shelf is far out
-100 miles out from the French coast,where the depth drops from 150mts to
4000mts in just a few miles and the seas get awfully confused and rather large,
and by the time we got there things had eased a bit and we had no
problem
Winds eased off to West then WNW later and
dropped a little giving us a cracking sail.
We are averaging over 7 knots boat speed and
that's with one reef in the main/2 reefs in the head sail and a mizzen sail to
balance things, on course to do 170 miles in the 24hr period-
its crazy what one gets excited about!
But then I will not bore you with 200 or so miles
motoring to get out of the s---ing English Channel
The distance to Coruna from Audiern is 320nm so if
the winds keep up then due to cross Biscay in under 2 days
Will either head for into Coruna N/W Spain or
travel on round the coast to one of the Rias and visit
Bayona
Thanks for your patience
Debs and John are well if not a little tired - poor
things! Although Debs has a little mal du mer as she often does at the beginning
of a long trip
Guy
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