Wednesday 22 May 

Up at 6:15 to leave before the sill closes at about 7:00.  We have had a free night because the marina office doesn’t open until 8:30, so there is no one we can pay for our berth.  Odd system they have here in France.

The weather is nice in that the sun is shining, but it is still cold.  The sea is awfully lumpy.  It isn’t rough, but we are rolling around so much you can barely walk when you go below.  Richard is anxious for us to get in to L’Aber-Wrac’h before the tide turns.  The wind is only the bottom of a 4, so we motor sail virtually all the way.  As we approach the harbour we see a number of boats coming out and turning west toward the Channel Du Four, the route past the end of Brittany going south.  We toy with the idea of going straight on, but neither of us can face another long passage.  We can be in harbour at lunchtime if we stick to the plan, otherwise we wouldn’t get to Camaret until between 7 and 8 tonight.

So we go in to L’Aber-Wrac’h as planned.  This probably means staying here until Saturday because the weather forecast is for strong winds over the next two days.  It isn’t an ideal place to stop because there are few shops and not much to do.  But it is a pretty harbour and there is one nice restaurant, where we can go tomorrow night.

So here we are.  We have had a nice walk, found where we can buy gas and have had our meager low calorie fasting day supper.  Only problem is that the heater is still not working and the fix Richard was taught to make is also not working!  Maybe we can find an engineer here?