2020

Legend

2020

Port de Morlaix, France ‐ Sep 23, 2020
At anchor outside Carantec ‐ Sep 22, 2020
L'Aber Wrach marina ‐ Sep 21, 2020
At anchor outside Audierne ‐ Sep 20, 2020
At anchor outside Lesconil ‐ Sep 19, 2020
Pont-Aven ‐ Sep 14, 2020

Pont Aven again
At anchor outside Port Manech ‐ Sep 12, 2020
Port Louis, Lorient ‐ Sep 10, 2020
At anchor outside Ile d'Houat ‐ Sep 8, 2020

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Islands Hoedic and Houat
At anchor outside Ile d'Hoedic ‐ Sep 7, 2020
La Turballe, France ‐ Sep 3, 2020
Port L'Herbaudiere, Ile de Noirmoutier ‐ Sep 1, 2020

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Biking around Ile de Noirmoutier
At anchor outside Ile de Yeux ‐ Aug 31, 2020
At anchor outside Les Sables-d'Olonne ‐ Aug 30, 2020
Les Minimes marina, La Rochelle ‐ Aug 25, 2020

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La Rochelle, Vielle Ville
At anchor outside Les Sables-d'Olonne ‐ Aug 24, 2020
Port Joinville, L'Île-d'Yeu ‐ Aug 23, 2020
La Roche Bernard ‐ Aug 9, 2020

Leaving La Vilaine

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At anchor in Ster Wraz, Belle lle ‐ Aug 8, 2020
At anchor outside Port Manech ‐ Aug 1, 2020

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Around Port Manech
Port de Plaisance, Concarneau ‐ Jul 30, 2020

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Ville Close, Concarneau
At anchor outside Ile de Penfret, Iles de Glenan ‐ Jul 28, 2020

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At anchor outside Benodet ‐ Jul 24, 2020
Port de Lesconil ‐ Jul 23, 2020
At anchor outside Audierne ‐ Jul 22, 2020
At anchor outside Camaret ‐ Jul 21, 2020
Marina du Chateau, Brest ‐ Jul 20, 2020
At anchor in the Aulne estuary ‐ Jul 19, 2020
Port-Launay ‐ Jul 13, 2020

Port Launay
At anchor outside Brest ‐ Jul 12, 2020
At anchor in L'Aber Wrach ‐ Jul 10, 2020

Thursday evening I locked out of Marina Morlaix and anchored out in the bay to get a good start Friday morning. I have been very lucky with the winds so far this year and today was no exception. Not so much northerly as forecasted to start with, so I had to shorttack between the rocks to get a good position for entering the channel between Roscoff and Ile de Batz. But after that I didn't have to tack until I reached the entrance to L'Aber Wrach. And fast sailing this day as well, I had long per [...]
iods with over 8 knots and passed five other boats. Atlantis sails really good when the wind pipes up against 10 knots and more, but in light winds she is a bit too heavy to compete with other cruisers. I am really yearning for a light wind sail, but other outlays comes in the way all the time. I have the design already made up in my head, around 100 square meter and only one colour, indigo blue. On a top-down furler, easily handled by myself. Maybe next year... I have been here a number of times now, but this is the first time I anchor. Maybe I go into the marina tomorrow.
Morlaix ‐ Jul 7, 2020

There was a sudden and unexpected change of my plans for going and fill up the tanks with tax free diesel on Guernsey. Good winds was forecasted for Monday, so I decided to leave Treguier marina and anchor in the river on Sunday evening. One hour before my departure a Dutch boat came in. They had been on Guernsey earlier in the week and told me all the Channel islands are now in complete lockdown, no foreign boats are allowed to go in there except in emergencies. Earlier foreign boats could go [...]
in, but crews had to remain on the boats in 14 days before they could go ashore. Now the lockdown is complete. Not even anchoring is allowed. The Dutch sailor was allowed to stay at anchor first after begging for his wife who was badly seasick. Four other boats that had planned to anchor was rejected at the same occasion. So no cheap diesel for me this summer. But at least I had a nice stay in Treguier, and the return to Morlaix on Tuesday offered very nice sailing in sunny weather. Here I will stay two days. I have mail to pick up and I have to get som hard-to-find stuff for the boat. Then I go west again.
Port de Treguier ‐ Jul 3, 2020

Conditions on my anchorage in river Jaudy became unbearable in the increasing winds on Friday. Because of stationary boats on buoys, I couldn't have as much chain that would be prudent, and when the wind came sweeping down the river, Atlantis started to move in an erratic way. The strong current pushed the boat one way and the wind in the opposite. In the strongest gusts the boat moved in an half cirkle around the anchor. No way I could sleep under these circumstances. I decided to go up the r [...]
iver to Treguier and take a berth in the marina. I was lucky to arrive at high water slack, otherwise it can be very strong currents in this marina and accidents are common I heard. The pilot books advice strongly to arrive at HW slack. Today Saturday I took a walk through the little town. It´s very pretty with many houses from the 15- and 16 hundreds. Many very well preserved. In spite of it's size, less than 3000 citizens, it has aslo a big medevial cathedral. My internet connection here in the marina doesn't allow me to post some pictures, but as soon as I find a decent wifi I will post some. Monday seems to bring good winds for going the 40-ish miles to Guernsey.

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Some nice houses in Treguier
At anchor outside Treguiere ‐ Jul 2, 2020

I didn't have patience to wait for the tide to turn in the English Channel this morning, so already before low water I was on my way from my anchorage in the Bay of Morlaix. After an initial rain shower, the sun broke through the clouds. I was making good speed out of the bay in the fresh westerly but it slowed down considerably after turning east around the last buoy. Not until after noon the tide turned. By then the wind had increased, gusting 20 knots and more, so a good part of the time I wa [...]
s making over 7 knots, even over 8 in periods when the current was at it's strongest. My goal for the day was to anchor in the river Jaudy, but coming close to the estuary I started thinking of going all the way to Guernsey. I figured I could be there just after dark, but a look at the weather forecasts made me cancel this idea. Most likely I would be stuck in St Peters Port for at least two nights, without being able to leave the boat. All visitors to Guernsey must stay in quarantaine on the boat for 14 days. It is possible to fill up the tanks ("without any physical contact with the staff") and they can give you a berth, but you are not allowed to take one step out of the boat. So to make my stopover there as short as possible, I will wait here at my anchorage until the weather makes it possible to go to Guernsey one day and leave the next. The distance is just about 40 miles. And it will also give me the opportunity to launch the dinghy tomorrow to visit Treguier, where I have never been. before.
Morlaix ‐ Jun 28, 2020

I was on the hard only one day, it was not much painting to do. Friday morning I was back on the water, but I had to wait for spare parts for the heat exchanger that I had ordered to the local boatyard, that is also the only Lombardini agent in Finistere. Which arrived as promised on Saturday, but then the wind was a bit too hard. Since I was in no hurry I spent the day biking around the aber, mostly on the eastern side where I haven't been before. The forecast for Sunday looked better, but I [...]
had to start in the dark at five in the morning to catch the tide back to Morlaix. Old sea from the north made the first hour very uncomfortable, but then I had nice sailing all the way back to Morlaix. There I stayed three nights. The spot on the map out in the Morlaix bay symbolises this time, it is getting to much lines in the narrow river to draw a new one every time I come and leave here. So it will be in the future as well, Morlaix is a place I like to return to. Today Wednesday I went out for anchoring in the bay, to catch the eastgoing tide tomorrow morning. I plan to go to Guernsey for filling up with taxfree diesel, then back west to the Atlantic coast, maybe with a stopover in Morlaix again. My plans are very loose for the rest of the summer, but most likely I will explore the French west coast until I find a place for the winter.
L'Aber Wrach, France ‐ Jun 24, 2020

When I took the ground in Vieux Port of Roscoff in May for changing the anods, I found that the antifouling on the keel has started to fall of. I am not allowed to do anything like painting or scraping, not even high pressure washing, while standing at the bottom, so I realised that I had to get the boat on the hard to fix that. The cheapest place by far around here to fix that is in Port de L'Aber Wrach, so there I went on the 24th. It was only the third time this year that I was outside Port [...]
de Morlaix. In March I was in Port Bloscon for replacing aft- and forestay, then came the confinement, and before that was over I had a gallbladder surgery with complications that kept me in port for some more weeks. So it was a nice feeling to be sailing again, especially since the wind was perfect and the sun shining. I spent the first night in the marina, and the following morning I was lifted onto the hard. It was only one day's job to scrape and paint the spots that had flaked, so on Friday morning I was back on the water. Hard winds stopped me from going east again. My plan was to go to Guernsey to fill up with tax free diesel, but instead I went biking around L'Aber Wrach a couple of days.

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Biking around L'Aber Wrach