Going West

[Chris_Robb]

We start the summer cruise on Friday evening, bound for South Brittany for the first time in many years.

As usual HUT (Him Up There) has determined that the winds will change on Saturday to Westerly.

Who else is starting off this weekend?

 

[Robin]

Hi Chris. It isn't just the winds either, we just heard from some friends who were delayed by fog waiting to cross from Dartmouth to Camaret!

In your case it looks like you need to get across Lyme by Friday night or latest Saturday morning if you can because it gets windier from SW/W after that. If it helps you can lay the 210 degs required for Chenal Du Four from Dartmouth with WSW and better, and W or NW is great. First priority though is to get across Lyme Bay!

Safe trip!

 

[Chris_Robb]

I think we will get to Studland and anoy the seahorses for the night, leaving early and plugging the tide. I think you are right that we need to be across by sat, or some much stronger winds will not gives us that holiday feeling!

Or we just hole up until Wednesday, and wait for the (hoped for) North Westerly winds..... Dead line is Brest on Sunday 12th AM to deposit one crew and pick up SWMBO. so not an ambitious schedule - perhaps time to explore the Isle De Uisant.

 

[Robin]

Optimum time to depart Studland for Dartmouth is 1hr45mins before HW Dover using the inshore eddy close in along from Old Harry to Peveril Ledge buoy, Anvil Point very close in and St Albans also. You might still have a little east going tide but very little and will get a nice big kick past Portland well into Lyme Bay. We usually go 4mls off Portland. If you've got to the 12th you can then wait for the W-NW winds that ECWMF sees for Wednesday on?

 

[Chris_Robb]

Thanks for the info on optimal leaving times - this fits in reasonably with the plan. If the wind get up Saturday, we may well dip in to Weymouth and hope that ECMWF is right for later in the week.

 

[michael_w]

Don't set off on Friday! Clicky

 

[Chris_Robb]

Whose he?

Now I have really gone and dunnit.......

 

[Angele]

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Don't set off on Friday! Clicky

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Hmm! Perhaps I should ditch my female, redhead, ordained first mate (whose one remaining left leg is flat-footed). When not skimming pebbles across the surface of the water, she spends her time flower arranging, stroking her pet cormorant, or giving manicures and talking about the day her father drowned at sea .... /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif

 

[Twister_Ken]

Not a naval officer, too, is she?

 

[Angele]

Didn't see that one.

Forgot to mention that she also has an unpleasant pastime of gutting the albatrosses and seagulls she catches and washing them in my buckets, except they (and the mops used to wash down the decks afterwards) keep falling overboard.

Also, I don't like her fashion sense. She really doesn't look good in her dad's clothes (the chap who drowned at sea).

 

[chubby]

Bon voyage, how long have you got overall? we have often wondered about south brittany but constrained by two week hols unless we go in for complex leaving the boat in intervening ports etc

 

[charles_reed]

I used to do Dyfi to Fouenesant and back on a regular basis within 5 days.

Mind you without a crew to slow one down helps.

 

[Danny Jo]

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Forgot to mention that she also has an unpleasant pastime of gutting the albatrosses and seagulls she catches and washing them in my buckets, except they (and the mops used to wash down the decks afterwards) keep falling overboard.

Also, I don't like her fashion sense. She really doesn't look good in her dad's clothes (the chap who drowned at sea).


[/ QUOTE ] There is redemption yet. She only needs to take her clothes off.

(I should be alright posting on two glasses of wine, surely?)

 

[Angele]

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There is redemption yet. She only needs to take her clothes off.

(I should be alright posting on two glasses of wine, surely?)

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... Damn. Our secret is out. /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif

 

[Chris_Robb]

We are doing from 4th July to 28th July, with two check pints for crew change, which is always a annoying in terms of having to be somewhere at a specific time. Brest on the 12th and Lorient on the 16th and then back to Brest by 23rd - then homeward bound. SWMBO did not want to do a passage up the Raz with just me..... Oh yee of little faith!