Saturday 25 May

We have been in L’Aber-Wrac’h for the past four days.  The heater is working as long as we don’t turn it off.  Not ideal, but we have kept warm in truly awful weather.  The weather forecast was bad, but the weather has been worse.  On Thursday it was bright, but very cold and very windy (up to 32 knots).  We had long walk up to the town to buy food, but the shop is bad, and we get very little.  We have dinner in the nice seafood restaurant and manage to get on and off the boat for that.  To do so is something of a miracle in the conditions.  The boat is being blown off the pontoon and the wind is too strong to pull it in.  Also the sea splashes up in huge waves just near us and we have to run across to avoid getting soaked.

This all gets much worse on Friday when the winds stay up at about 20-28 knots all day.  The boat lurches with the wind.  Richard keeps putting more and more lines on.  We seem safe enough but it is not at all comfortable.  And it has started raining.  Not continuously, but in showers.  We go out to lunch for a snack, just to get off the boat.  But it is hard to walk in the bad weather.  Ugh.

The weather forecast for today was much better.  Sunny and settled winds.  Richard wanted us to go to Camaret today, but I have rebelled.  The forecast for the seas is terrible.  There is said to be waves of .6 to 1 metre high on top of a swell of 2 metres!  This is in one of the worst bits of water we will encounter.  I am unwilling to spend 5 hours in those conditions.  It turns out I am not the only one who decides we should wait for the sea to calm down.  Not one boat has gone out today!

But the weather is nice enough for us to have a long walk along the headland to the sea.  We are fasting, but are allowed a dozen oysters each for dinner which finally makes me think I am on holiday in Brittany.

We will leave very early tomorrow morning.  Richard wants to try to get through the Four and the Raz in the same trip.  That means going to Audierne, again skipping a town which is good for provisioning.  We are running out of food!