Just been sailing...
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around the northern Britany shore of France, the cote emeraud. Absolutely stunning place. Particularly Isle Brehat, it is a place of such impossible beauty you would think it man made for a theme park: Google Image Result for https://media.routard.com/image/85/4/ile-brehat-bretagne.1545854.w740.jpeg[^] Google Image Result for https://cdn.artphotolimited.com/images/58bd704f04799b000f623d31/1000x1000/ile-de-brehat-2.jpg[^] Had some good strong winds and seas too, as well as some sunshine, so a good week all in all.
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around the northern Britany shore of France, the cote emeraud. Absolutely stunning place. Particularly Isle Brehat, it is a place of such impossible beauty you would think it man made for a theme park: Google Image Result for https://media.routard.com/image/85/4/ile-brehat-bretagne.1545854.w740.jpeg[^] Google Image Result for https://cdn.artphotolimited.com/images/58bd704f04799b000f623d31/1000x1000/ile-de-brehat-2.jpg[^] Had some good strong winds and seas too, as well as some sunshine, so a good week all in all.
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BTW greenland lost a lotta ice...while u were sailing...let us know if you found some...lol..
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That went in our Gin and Tonics. :)
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around the northern Britany shore of France, the cote emeraud. Absolutely stunning place. Particularly Isle Brehat, it is a place of such impossible beauty you would think it man made for a theme park: Google Image Result for https://media.routard.com/image/85/4/ile-brehat-bretagne.1545854.w740.jpeg[^] Google Image Result for https://cdn.artphotolimited.com/images/58bd704f04799b000f623d31/1000x1000/ile-de-brehat-2.jpg[^] Had some good strong winds and seas too, as well as some sunshine, so a good week all in all.
Talking about sailing.. A storm hit the lake on friday night, saturday morning we had to respond to a sail boat loosened from the buoye, and a motorboat which took the buoye with it on to shore: Sail boat[^] Sail boat tow[^] Stranded motor boat[^] Motor boat pull out[^] Motor boat tow[^]
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around the northern Britany shore of France, the cote emeraud. Absolutely stunning place. Particularly Isle Brehat, it is a place of such impossible beauty you would think it man made for a theme park: Google Image Result for https://media.routard.com/image/85/4/ile-brehat-bretagne.1545854.w740.jpeg[^] Google Image Result for https://cdn.artphotolimited.com/images/58bd704f04799b000f623d31/1000x1000/ile-de-brehat-2.jpg[^] Had some good strong winds and seas too, as well as some sunshine, so a good week all in all.
Beautiful indeed, but my memory of our holiday in Bretagne is that it rained most of the time. After camping there my uncle swore never to go on a camping trip again :-\
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Beautiful indeed, but my memory of our holiday in Bretagne is that it rained most of the time. After camping there my uncle swore never to go on a camping trip again :-\
We had a day and a half of rain, but a lot of cloud and wind, but then for sailing you dont mind so much, because you are at least going fast. Had a day and a bit of solid sunshine though, so all in all a pretty good holiday. Five mates on a boat drinking for a week anyway is always going to be a hell of a laugh! :)
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around the northern Britany shore of France, the cote emeraud. Absolutely stunning place. Particularly Isle Brehat, it is a place of such impossible beauty you would think it man made for a theme park: Google Image Result for https://media.routard.com/image/85/4/ile-brehat-bretagne.1545854.w740.jpeg[^] Google Image Result for https://cdn.artphotolimited.com/images/58bd704f04799b000f623d31/1000x1000/ile-de-brehat-2.jpg[^] Had some good strong winds and seas too, as well as some sunshine, so a good week all in all.
Oh do tell me more! I have my eye on a 41' Cheoy Lee. Were you the captain? Tagging along on a cruise? Curious about the currents in the area. Jealous in a good way....
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Oh do tell me more! I have my eye on a 41' Cheoy Lee. Were you the captain? Tagging along on a cruise? Curious about the currents in the area. Jealous in a good way....
Charlie Gilley <italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape... "Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783 “They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
As the most experienced (been sailing since I was 4) I had the final say, though two others on the boat had experience, one a recent convert to sailing, and very keen, who had organised the trip, tended to run things minute to minute. But I was happy with that, he wants and needs experience. So I would take the boat in and out of the pontoons for example, or stand by while one of the others had a go. The currents were surprisingly not too bad, given the massive tidal range there (up to 14 meters), we had a fairly lowish tidal coefficient (half moons) and had at most a knot of current, with a bit of confused water round one headland (but we were very close in sight seeing). It is a fantastic area to learn to sail though, and navigate, more rocks, bouys, markers and lighthouses than you could want, and also very pretty, with good food! :)
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around the northern Britany shore of France, the cote emeraud. Absolutely stunning place. Particularly Isle Brehat, it is a place of such impossible beauty you would think it man made for a theme park: Google Image Result for https://media.routard.com/image/85/4/ile-brehat-bretagne.1545854.w740.jpeg[^] Google Image Result for https://cdn.artphotolimited.com/images/58bd704f04799b000f623d31/1000x1000/ile-de-brehat-2.jpg[^] Had some good strong winds and seas too, as well as some sunshine, so a good week all in all.
Munchies_Matt wrote:
it is a place of such impossible beauty you would think it man made for a theme par
So what would the theme be?
CQ de W5ALT
Walt Fair, Jr., P. E. Comport Computing Specializing in Technical Engineering Software
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Munchies_Matt wrote:
it is a place of such impossible beauty you would think it man made for a theme par
So what would the theme be?
CQ de W5ALT
Walt Fair, Jr., P. E. Comport Computing Specializing in Technical Engineering Software
Like this: Google Image Result for https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/2400/1*mel6_Sx8a0ywoD0yQd6jMA.jpeg[^] See the rocks, the water, the greenery. OK Ile Brehat hasnt got a giant dinosaur ride in the middle, but you get the point :)
