9 July 2010 - Houat to Sauzon

It's time to start heading back home, slowly. Before moving, the diver took a look at the keel but found nothing. She called for a knife to move a few barnacles, but that did not make any difference, so she rigged a rope round the wing and led it aft. I took up tension on the rope and then the keel came up OK. Then went down and up again as normal. Worrying but seems OK now - hope it does not stop working at a critical point...

It's handy having a diver on hand, however the diving stuff took up some time and with light headwind we would have to motor all the way to get to Etel, so went to Sauzon (that's on Belle Ile, remember) which is on the way.
Fine race boat full of jolly people overtook us - we were doing our best but it was longer than us and looked quite a fast boat. Moored in the inner harbour again and this time we touched the bottom at low tide (first time this trip).
Pam bought a chunk of Lotte which is Monkfish from the extremely busy fish stall. The Monkfish was a good buy - very meaty texture. Lots of people were buying Lotte and also Arraignee (If you have been attending you will remember that's spider crab). Music and small craft market on the quayside.

Tommorrow we plan to leave the inner harbour early before we go aground, pick up one of outside buoys to have our breakfast and maybe then go to Etel (as I have said before).