A good choice of Boulangeries in Hennebont. It also has a very large market every Thursday, but we missed that. After breakfast we went back down the river to Lorient where we hoisted sail. Fine clear cool sunny day and we had a good sail, close-hauled all the way but mostly on one tack, to the bay where the Belon and Aven river come out. We anchored at Port Mannec'h to wait for the tide. Towards half tide we crossed the bar into the Belon River. Instructions for this were contradictory: The pilot books said use the SE side of the river, a neighbouring boat said use the NW side of the river, the chartplotter showed a dredged area but at a low zoom level said it was dredged in 1987! Anyway we found a minumum depth of 1.9m which was plenty
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| Some of visitors moorings and "Chez Jacky" restaurant |
The Belon River is said to be very beautiful and famous for its oysters. The beauty is a bit spoilt by every spare corner being filled with fore and aft yacht moorings. We eventually used one of the big visitors moorings and were glad of help from the harbourmaster as it's difficult to thread a rope onto a big steel buoy without bashing the boat and even more difficult to fix the other end of the boat to the other buoy without 2 very long warps.
Went ashore for a quick beer and then took a quick look at the famous "Chez Jacky", which is an expensive seafood restaurant specialising in Belon oysters. They also run a shop but it was closed.
