Tuesday, 27 July 2010

23 July 2010 L-Aber Benoit to Ile de Batz

Geomonier outside L'Aber Benoit
Still could not be bothered to blow up the dinghy - it's a nice enough place but does not seem worth the trouble for a brief trip ashore. Motored out and started sailing just before Libenter buoy. On the way out we saw one of the geomonier's boats loading up with seaweed.

After a while we could bear away enough to put up the cruising chute - then the wind went light and we went the rest of the way thinking of starting the engine. On the way the French boat which had been outside us at Lesconil motored past, with lots of waving. Maybe they had stopped at L'Aber Wrac'h. Eventually arrived in Chenal de l'Ile de Batz, went into Porz Kernoc and looked round for an anchoring place, which I eventually found. Slight worry that some boat might turn up for the 2 small buoys near us. After the tide went down we discovered that these and other similar buoys are fixed to big chains running across the harbour. We watched a couple of boats whose anchors were near the chains remove their anchor and moor to the chain with a line which could be slipped - good plan.

In Porz Kernoc, Ile de Batz
Tomorrow: Still expecting light weather so Locqueric with an optional lunch stop in Anse de Terenez (in Bay de Morlaix)