capnsensible
Well-Known Member
Arrived home yesterday from a most enjoyable 10 day ride from Horta to S. Brittany.
The Challenge. Me cooking for 3 French (well one a bit Swiss, really) and an Italian. Especially first night out in a downwind bumpy sea. Yess, got it right for the whole trip and impressed our European Cousins who now have a different view of our traditional inabilities! One pot saviour.
Anyway. Lovely yacht, aluminium Allures. Handles downwind very well, we used a Gennaker to good effect and also a Parasailor. That was a first for me, excellent mover of boats. I didnt see any windward work but the others mentioned that earlier in the trip with heavy airs and a drop keel, lotsa leeway and pointing bit poor.
Getting there was....interesting. At 1308 two tuesdays ago, I was sat in Lanzarote airport. Flight to Madrid. Change for Lisbon. (People of Lisbon, have a whip round and buy your capitals' airport a decent terminal) Five hours in a transit 'guest house' and early flight to Horta.
1308 Wednesday, after arriving, very good safety brief and show round, passing Marina breakwater.
9 and a tad days of passage to the Solent of France! Very busy with French Holiday in swing. Looks a lovely place to cruise around, the bay South of Trinite. Good food and totally brill wine!
Getting back, a simple taxi, train, bus and plane. (People of Nantes have a whip round and sort your grubby airport out!)
So keep up your one pot skills, you never know.....
The Challenge. Me cooking for 3 French (well one a bit Swiss, really) and an Italian. Especially first night out in a downwind bumpy sea. Yess, got it right for the whole trip and impressed our European Cousins who now have a different view of our traditional inabilities! One pot saviour.
Anyway. Lovely yacht, aluminium Allures. Handles downwind very well, we used a Gennaker to good effect and also a Parasailor. That was a first for me, excellent mover of boats. I didnt see any windward work but the others mentioned that earlier in the trip with heavy airs and a drop keel, lotsa leeway and pointing bit poor.
Getting there was....interesting. At 1308 two tuesdays ago, I was sat in Lanzarote airport. Flight to Madrid. Change for Lisbon. (People of Lisbon, have a whip round and buy your capitals' airport a decent terminal) Five hours in a transit 'guest house' and early flight to Horta.
1308 Wednesday, after arriving, very good safety brief and show round, passing Marina breakwater.
9 and a tad days of passage to the Solent of France! Very busy with French Holiday in swing. Looks a lovely place to cruise around, the bay South of Trinite. Good food and totally brill wine!
Getting back, a simple taxi, train, bus and plane. (People of Nantes have a whip round and sort your grubby airport out!)
So keep up your one pot skills, you never know.....
