A catch up now that we are home

Having limited internet access and quality it was hard to get pics and videos uploaded so now that we are home we will catch up a little. The birthday cake....
Then we bashed through some tough weather before arriving at Cameret for fuel and a meal ashore. Cariad is centre picture. And of course the £60 kettle! Then a sail up the west coast of the Brest peninsular and into the English Channel. Home is about North West and the wind was North West 4-6; spring tides add to difficulty in making ground.....



....and home to the needles for sunrise. And some final statistics: We ate the last tomato in Southsea and had a Spanish orange left as a gift for the marina staff - we ate everything else!! First leg Coruna to Cameret (Biscay crossing) 370 miles in 68.5 hours is average speed of 5.4 knots. Second leg Cameret to Cowes (pushing NW half gales in Channel) 232 miles in 46.5 hours s average speed of 4.99 knots. Final hop Cowes to Southsea (a waft and Bucks Fizz) 18 miles 4hour average speed 4.5 knots. So roughly overall it took 5 days to do 620 miles at about 5 and a bit knots. MJF

On the way to the Solent

Easterlies in the channel in summer! No kite runs here just bashing into F6 eaterlies :( and......top of springs so big tidal streams which when against more or less stopped us. All miles very hard won and we were happy to get into Cowes after 2 days and long nights. (I cant get the video to upload so hope that Glynn can when he comes on)
MJF

Leaving Cameret for the Solent

We had a few breakages and defects crossing Biscay and top of the list to fix was the broken kettle AND Roger was up early to get the replacement - £60!!!!!! My challenge is out there for a more expensive kettle and I am sure that, like me, you can still feel the warm glow that is the guy in shop pocketing the cash.