Enjoying Loctudy
ULA
John & Jackie Richards
Wed 6 Aug 2008 21:53
Position:047:50.338N 004:10.547W
We had a great sail around to Loctudy yesterday.
Given the forecasts we have had, the trip at least got us through the Raz
de Sein and we are now well placed to get across Biscay once the forecast
improves. Hopefully we shall be setting off tomorrow heading for La Coruna
or Baiona
The Raz was quite calm and we came through with at
least twelve other boats all heading in the same direction, including a French
navy boat and a pleasure boat. Having motor sailed down from
Camaret through the Raz, once through we sailed nearly all the way. We
decided to come in to Loctudy rather than the better known Benodet situated
about three miles away as we have been here before some years ago and really
liked it. Everyone is very friendly, it is much less touristy and berthing is
not such a Russian roulette in the tides. We were here in 2000 with Tim and
Helen and had a very lazy lunchtime/afternoon eating a lunch of langoustines
from the local fish market and far too much Muscadet I seem to remember! Happy
days!
We have had a day sorting out the boat, exploring
and provisioning up for the next few days at sea as well as trying to help Andy
who has stayed at home for some uni resits, sort temporary accommodation etc.
What did we do before the internet?! The local supermarket was very
small but the marina have bikes available so I had one of these and headed
off in the direction of 'Champion' some 1-2 km out of town. This was great until
I needed to stop and realised the brakes didnt work! Fortunately the beer
weighing down the basket on the handlebars helped on the way
back!
We have had dinner with the crew of Libertad for
the last two evenings who are here in Loctudy with us. Last night we went to the
marina restaurant which we subsequently discovered in Le Routard - very nice
food, and tonight we have cooked on board Ula which has been fun.Laura, Jake and
Tim have been out fishing but have yet to catch anything other than a
mackerel!
Hopefully our next blog will be from Spain in about
three days time.
Jackie
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