Giles and Paula's Great Retirement Adventure

[goosehd]

…someone has mentioned oysters and I haven’t seen a pic yet. I can’t be the only one waiting

[endo]

If he starts posting pictures of oysters now, my envy will explode.

[goosehd]

Yep…sitting at a table, good company, a cold beverage or two, and a plate full of freshly shucked oysters…couldn’t be that bad

[Giles]

Yeah, sorry. Will try to correct that soon.....

We were taken out to dinner in Barfleur bt our old Haslar Marina neighbour. I have (just) 6 Oysters, followed by Tuna...

[Giles]

Tomorrow, we sail around the Cherbourg Peninsular, and through The Alderney Race to Dielette. Some of the trickiest waters in Europe to navigate, it will be a day off Spring Tides, so the currents will be strong, but luckily there should be very little wind to make things even more complicated....

This is current map at about 90 mins into our passage. Red is strong, dark red/black, extremely strong....Going to burn some fuel...

Later in the day, and at last we will have current pushing us....

[goosehd]

@Giles you get two free passes from me for that post! Old friends always is a plus in my book

[Giles]

And we are off.....

https://vimeo.com/manage/videos/1205703905

[Giles]

Gatteville lighthouse in Barfleur (tallest lighthouse in Europe), which is where we had dinner last night (the town, not the lighthouse)…

[Giles]

Entering The Alderney Race.....

[motojobobo]

You are now past the strong currents !

[Giles]

It is still Spring tides, so large flows for the next couple of days, and we have to be in St Malo for Friday. And there are some pretty treacherous reefs between here and there. So we will do a 20nm run tomorrow to Carteret, which leaves us about 45nm to do to get to St Malo. Winds on Thursday are forecast to be strong, so that leaves us the Carteret-St Malo passage to do on Friday, we'll likely leave Carteret at 04:30ish on Fri to get the best conditions. Carteret is at waypoint 4, St Malo is the waypoint after waypoint 8. It'll be a challenging passage....