JonA
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Re: Where\'s this?
Roscoff. The landing for the Isle de Batz ferry.
Jonathan
Roscoff. The landing for the Isle de Batz ferry.
Jonathan
Where's this?
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DeeGee
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Re: Where\'s this?
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Roscoff. The landing for the Isle de Batz ferry.
Jonathan
[/ QUOTE ]Location correct - are you sure of the function? I have only sailed past it a few times, and wondered what on earth it is. /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif
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Roscoff. The landing for the Isle de Batz ferry.
Jonathan
[/ QUOTE ]Location correct - are you sure of the function? I have only sailed past it a few times, and wondered what on earth it is. /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif
AlanPound
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Re: Where\'s this?
I've moored at exactly that point (and, by the way, anchored round the corner near the 'big ferry' terminal - but that doesn't seem available any more...). The moorings there are rather exposed (depending upon the state of tide), but Roscoff itself is well worth a visit....
... And yes, I've been through the passage south of the Isle of Batz several times, each time in a 18m ketch - and it never seemed to have the kind of vis that I would have liked there!
.... However, don't be put off by Tom Cunliffe's over-colourful description ("a rock-strewn hell-hole..." or something like that!) It is really quite an interesting channel, and very do-able to anyone who is able to maintain some level of attention for twenty-minutes or so (although I would recommend starting off with a fairly serious session checking the charts, and planning the waypoints and headings for the various sections of it...)
... a fabulous cruising area - that coast of Brittany...
Alan
I've moored at exactly that point (and, by the way, anchored round the corner near the 'big ferry' terminal - but that doesn't seem available any more...). The moorings there are rather exposed (depending upon the state of tide), but Roscoff itself is well worth a visit....
... And yes, I've been through the passage south of the Isle of Batz several times, each time in a 18m ketch - and it never seemed to have the kind of vis that I would have liked there!
.... However, don't be put off by Tom Cunliffe's over-colourful description ("a rock-strewn hell-hole..." or something like that!) It is really quite an interesting channel, and very do-able to anyone who is able to maintain some level of attention for twenty-minutes or so (although I would recommend starting off with a fairly serious session checking the charts, and planning the waypoints and headings for the various sections of it...)
... a fabulous cruising area - that coast of Brittany...
Alan
DeeGee
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Re: Where\'s this?
You will know, then, what fun it is to go through eastward on a dark night with the spring flood under your keel /forums/images/graemlins/crazy.gif
At least on the French coast at night, you don't have loads of house, traffic, shop lights. Black as hell, lights totally viewable. Dont get much fog at night...
You will know, then, what fun it is to go through eastward on a dark night with the spring flood under your keel /forums/images/graemlins/crazy.gif
At least on the French coast at night, you don't have loads of house, traffic, shop lights. Black as hell, lights totally viewable. Dont get much fog at night...