Chuffin’ hot here this morning.  We are both under the weather 🤧 but the floor show is interesting … the motor yacht from San Marino has clearly not had his passport stamped - probably several months ago … it’s not the Olympics but it’s possibly a high tariff manoeuvre  Jim!

5:30 alarm this morning, boil the kettle, make cup of tea, cast off and out through the harbour by 6am.   Glorious morning!  

Just enough wind to gain wind assistance from the main as we motored out beyond the “pot area” and far enough out to turn north and go fairly hard on the wind towards the Point de Barfleur.  With tide assistance we had a cracking sail up to the ‘corner’ to meet the west going tide which would take us to Cherbourg.  The sunrise was spectacular.

Within sight of the Barfleur lighthouse the tidal chop was quite intense for a few minutes, but we were soon through and easing slowly west.

After that point I can no longer comment … I went below… we might have been making 8 - 10 kts over the ground but what wind there was was behind us and the boat speed through the water was less than 3kts.  I’m not a lover of slop!

Mr C woke me half an hour out from the Cherbourg breakwater- by now he had engine assistance although the tide was ripping us along. Sails away, the entry to Cherbourg was fairly unremarkable and we found quite a few empty spaces on pontoon Q.  Remarkable!!! We took Q28.  Berthed, all the lines sorted and tidied, electric on, shorts on (it’s bloomin’ 🥵). 

… then I remembered to turn SailTies off!

… when morning gilds the skies

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