dancrane
Well-known member
It's raining again, so no painting this week. Time for idle day-dreaming, instead...
...now that it's near the start of the summer when I'll finally get sailing properly... ...I'm naturally dreaming again about loopy cross-Channel adventures in the dinghy.
I've family in France, far down the Biscay coast, and I'm not planning on sailing round to see them, although that thought is interesting. But what I notice, now I come to focus with Googlemaps on the Northern Brittany coast, is how alarmingly studded with rocks the whole place seems to be.
Assuming the nut-case dinghy sailor doesn't sail Ventnor to Cherbourg, but works down the UK coast to, say, Salcombe, then aims to sail 100 miles, roughly due south...
...there scarcely seems to be a single safe landing, without first steering and hoping not to hit a hundred outlying rocks. Easy enough in a motorboat with GPS, but how the heck did sailors and fishermen use this coast before such additions?
The ferry port Roscoff and old port of Paimpol are the only names I'd think of, the latter being alarmingly well defended by rocks. Is there no way in, without GPS?
...now that it's near the start of the summer when I'll finally get sailing properly... ...I'm naturally dreaming again about loopy cross-Channel adventures in the dinghy.
I've family in France, far down the Biscay coast, and I'm not planning on sailing round to see them, although that thought is interesting. But what I notice, now I come to focus with Googlemaps on the Northern Brittany coast, is how alarmingly studded with rocks the whole place seems to be.
Assuming the nut-case dinghy sailor doesn't sail Ventnor to Cherbourg, but works down the UK coast to, say, Salcombe, then aims to sail 100 miles, roughly due south...
...there scarcely seems to be a single safe landing, without first steering and hoping not to hit a hundred outlying rocks. Easy enough in a motorboat with GPS, but how the heck did sailors and fishermen use this coast before such additions?
The ferry port Roscoff and old port of Paimpol are the only names I'd think of, the latter being alarmingly well defended by rocks. Is there no way in, without GPS?