dpb
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It already seems a long time ago, but we spent the last two weeks of June whizzing around the Golfe de St Tropez in glorious sunshine from our rented Port Grimaud base. I thought I would share a few details and photos of our trip for those who are interested and may be thinking of doing similar trips themselves.
Whist there was sunshine a plenty there was also a lot of wind, even by Med standards with most days blowing force five with higher gusts and several days of sevens gusting eights often with no respite even at night. This meant that we were confined for the most part to the Golfe de St Tropez itself where shelter was to be found. However as we had cruised the region before, and the main objective of this holiday was to relax, we were not too disappointed.
Anyway, the piccies!
Starting with how we got there and back:
Portsmouth \ Le Harve night crossing followed by two days drive, stopping at Valance on way out, Chalon on return.
Launch and recovery site at Port Grimaud (PG):
And where we stayed:
A couple of pics of PG itself:
A few anchorages where we sheltered and generally passed the time of day:
We visited St Tropez twice, being offered a free mooring both times for a few hours by asking at the capitanarie. To stay longer and make an evening of it we took an overnight berth, even though we left for PG at 2:00 am.
St Tropez from the sea:
and from within the harbour, the first showing one of our short visit berths on the superyacht quay :
A calm day in the Golfe! The cloud is actually a brush fire in the hills.
And St Maxime where a similar short term free berth was made available whilst we explored the town.
Part two of the post will feature some of the boats that caught my eye whilst we were there.
Whist there was sunshine a plenty there was also a lot of wind, even by Med standards with most days blowing force five with higher gusts and several days of sevens gusting eights often with no respite even at night. This meant that we were confined for the most part to the Golfe de St Tropez itself where shelter was to be found. However as we had cruised the region before, and the main objective of this holiday was to relax, we were not too disappointed.
Anyway, the piccies!
Starting with how we got there and back:
Portsmouth \ Le Harve night crossing followed by two days drive, stopping at Valance on way out, Chalon on return.
Launch and recovery site at Port Grimaud (PG):
And where we stayed:
A couple of pics of PG itself:
A few anchorages where we sheltered and generally passed the time of day:
We visited St Tropez twice, being offered a free mooring both times for a few hours by asking at the capitanarie. To stay longer and make an evening of it we took an overnight berth, even though we left for PG at 2:00 am.
St Tropez from the sea:
and from within the harbour, the first showing one of our short visit berths on the superyacht quay :
A calm day in the Golfe! The cloud is actually a brush fire in the hills.
And St Maxime where a similar short term free berth was made available whilst we explored the town.
Part two of the post will feature some of the boats that caught my eye whilst we were there.
