Left after early breakfast and found promising wind strength and direction. A big old 3 masted ship came sailing the other way, heading for Dournanez where there is a rally of old ships, starting today. Close-hauled all the way to the start of Chenal du Four, putting one reef in on the way. Carried on up this channel in fine style, with only a small patch of short choppy waves.
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| Le Four lighthouse at the N end of Chenal du Four |
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| On mooring at L'Aber Benoit looking towards the sea |
After the end of the channel we found more swell and eventually started our turn-off for L'Aber Benoit. We then found ourselves on a broad reach with following swell trying to pick up the marks. GPS makes this a lot easier! Arriving at the start of the moorings we started the engine and found no cooling water was coming out. Reached up and down for a while, thanks to a fortunate wind direction, to find that Pam had not put the filter basket in right way round, and then I had not tightened the cover up properly. Panic over - picked up a mooring and had an idle evening, not bothering to blow up the dinghy and go ashore. It's a quiet place with some moorings but quite a walk to any shops.
We have now passed the 2 major tidal/weather gates between South and North Brittany (Raz de Sein and Chenal du Four). Made an outline plan of where to go over the next few days. Wait and see - tomorrow is Ile de Batz, hopefully.
