Le Havre stamp out?

[LittleSister]

. . . Liked what I saw. . . .

Nice pics and commentary via that link. Thanks.

 

[Daverw]

Is yours the Kelt tucked in on the less bouncy side of O? (Not jealous!) Will keep an eye on her, if you like. Not expecting to move before Thur, based on current Meteo Consult forecast. Alas, have used my 5 free Passeport Escales nights, between 3 nights on the way south and now the nights weather bound. But can't complain @ £25 a night. Imagine what that would be on the UK South Coast, a day's sail to the north!

Yes that’s me, Midnightblue, it’s more protected on this side of O pontoon, on Monday night ferry and then back on week on Tuesday then ready to go to Dieppe and then Boulogne before Dover and start heading back to hull, we’ve achieved nearly all we planned apart from not getting to Jersey, next years adventure is going to be Netherlands,
Yes price here is really good

 

[John_Silver]

Have the Oppies come home yet. That is when you have some fun,

It may be blowing 35+ knots, but this is France and the Oppies are out:



Is it any wonder that the French dominate solo offshore racing?



Hadn’t appreciated that the Optimist was a ‘planing design,’ until today!

 

[Daydream believer]

It may be blowing 35+ knots, but this is France and the Oppies are out:

Hadn’t appreciated that the Optimist was a ‘planing design,’ until today!

There is a foiling one about somewhere

 

[John_Silver]

There is a foiling one about somewhere

You’re not wrong:



Built in Sweden, the land of the ‘sedate’ Rassy, no less. Read all about it!

 

[John_Silver]

To finish the Le Havre stamp out story:

Booking a PaF appointment via the Capitainerie (which is the Le Havre MO) turns out to have several advantages:

1. It seems to re-enable today-for-tomorrow stamp outs. (Which seem to be a problem where PaF head office gets involved, after a form is emailed to a …dipn…email address). In Le Havre the form goes to the Capitainerie and, from there, to a local PaF officer ….
2. The PaF officer comes to you, at the Capitainerie.
3. A stamp out slot can be fairly swiftly secured. I had worried that, effectively, I’d need to commit two days in advance of departure. Which flies in the face of all sailors’ “check the morning forecast & go” instincts. But I saw an arriving boat (unexpectedly blown in by the last gale) PaF’d within two hours of approaching the Capitainerie. For a stamp out, asking for an evening stamp out (16.30, before the Capitainerie closes, seems standard) at mid morning was accepted without comment.