19th May

Moved to Trebeurden yesterday. Good forecast wind in a reasonable direction and a spring tide running. (I have since found out it was one of the 5 highest of the year!!). Lovely day when we left St. Quay at 07.00 (not early then.) Cup of tea and porridge on. Sun shining and a little tide against until we got round the corner. But thick black clouds ahead. Tide running at six knots wind expected light but NNE so reasonable direction. But went South as we turned and guess what? On the nose and wind against tide. Fortunately light wind against tide so not too bad.But no sailing again. But I wonder where these weather forecasts come from? Phil uses several different reliable sources but at the end of the day you pays your money and takes your choice. We had a little confusion off Lezardrieux we had a mark ahead of us with a lot of rocks and neither of us could find it on the chart! We realised about 15 minutes later that it was a light house quite a way away and at a strange aspect. Phew, what a relief we were no where near it but I swear it looked as though we were heading straight for it. It was dull and not warm. It got lumpy in the channel behind Les Sept Isle ( I only counted 5 but it was murky). We had carefully timed our trip to get the full tide and arrive off Le Crapeau mark at slack. I had just started to feel cold and went to put on an extra layer.