Anne Mann

Left our berth at 07:45 from a triple rafted St Helier. Motor sailed to Corbiere in light wind. Then boom turning the Corner from Corbiere got wind and sailing 10+ knots. Then the wind died, and it was a slow sail all the way to St Peter Port and not the weather forecasted ! Shown into an alongside berth in St Peter Port and it’s HOT HOT HOT !! 🥵

For the first 4 hours on leaving St Cast it was like being in a washing machine and on spin. Rough and lumpy and horrid. Wind bang on the nose too. But when we got to the Minquiers, full main and Genoa and sailed to St Helier with the sea state gradually calming nearer to Jersey. Full sun and warm

Left St Quay at 05:25 in the dark. Then we had dense thick fog all the way. It cleared just enough to see Cap Frehel in the murk along with dozens of Fishing boats. Loads of large clumps of thick rubbery seaweed to contend with too. Moored up but very short pontoon and no harbour master out to help.

The plan was to go to Paimpol today. The lock at Paimpol was 07:39 which meant leaving Lezardrieux about 05:00. However, with very big Spring tides this week, the water and High tide at Lezardrieux was 07:36 and a 9.84m tide. At 05:00 hours the tide was flowing very fast up our chuff so a change of plan needed and we decided to go back to St Quay. The weather forecast was thunderstorms and rain and no wind too. So we motored back to St Quay. It was Fog and murk. A calm sea and windless with what wind there was 2-4 knots on the nose! Also humid. On the plus side we saw dolphins between Ile De Brehat and Paimpol area.

Left in horrid conditions. Gusting 19-20 knots, raining and foggy with poor visibility. Motored all the way. Towards Lezardrieux the rain stopped and due to the protection of the River the wind died to 7 knots. No harbourmaster out, so we went onto the waiting pontoon and called him up. A Yacht was just leaving so we were able to get a berth inside.

A flat calm sea. Grey, cool and showering ! Wind from behind up to 16 knots. Genoa out & sailing. Anchored at Ile De Brehat Now looking at the weather as up to 55kmh later as to whether to move … ?

A force 3/4 for the afternoon was forecast. We had maximum wind of 9 knots but mostly 3-6 knots, except for berthing up and the wind blew to 12 knots !! A flat calm sea, and hot sunshine all the way except for a cloud bank over St Quai but that cleared.

We had winds of 20-21 knots SW leaving Cherbourg to Cap De La Hague, and a cracking sail but sadly nose to wind turning towards Alderney from there. At least it was dry except for the spray over the boat at

Left at Full moon at 03:15 leaving the Anchorage at East Head. Through the shipping lanes of the Isle of Wight and anchorages. Then it was sun rising, blue skies into dense fog, blue sky and a further dense fog bank nearing the French Coast. The sea was lumpy and the winds picked up to 18-20 knots with the barometer going from 1022 to 1016 on arrival nearing Cherbourg. A busy Marina and by 19:00 all of Q pontoon was full.

Head to wind all the way and the wind picked up and the tide turned creating lumpy conditions with waves over the boat !