Tuesday 21 May

Up at 5:30 to leave for Trebeurden.  Funny thing is that many of the other boats on the pontoons are going at the same time.  I guess that is a good thing.  We manage to have a bowl of cereal each and I make a sandwich for us both.  Then we just have a long, tiring and cold day on the sea.  Everything is grey.   The sky is light grey.  The sea is dark grey.  The only wildlife we see are gulls and they are mainly grey also!

We are both tired due to the cold wind and early start so we take turns going below to sleep and warm up a bit.  The journey goes well.  Mainly a force 4 on the beam.  We sail most of the day and boost our speed for a time with the engine.  The journey takes 10-11 hours, which isn’t bad, but we are exhausted when we arrive.  But we have finally made it to France. We also arrive half an hour after the marina office closes! So no shower and if we do leave early tomorrow morning, no chance to pay a berthing fee!

We are both desperate to get warm.  The heater won’t turn on again, so Richard has to do his playing will the system to start it up.  When he tries to do that we have another little problem.  The catch for the lock on the panel falls out and he can’t open the panel to get to the heater mechanism!  To get around this he has to take the headliner over our bed off to give access to the lock.  He manages that but then it does take 2 tries to get the heater going.  But we have now heated up the boat so much that we are in short sleeved t-shirts!  

Dinner on board - Caribbean Chicken Curry - nice and warming after our super cold day.  We even get WIFI on our new system and have spoken to Colin in Norway.  

Must get to bed early because we have another very early start and the sill out of this marina closes at 7:00am tomorrow!