Well I am starting to forget what we have done. We arrived in Guernsey about 12 noon. A perfect time to enter the harbour but we stayed out as we wanted to leave on the tide at 08.00 hours French. (Still 07.00 in real money). We actually awoke early so were gone from the pontoon by 07.45 much to my annoyance cos 08.00 hours is 08.00 hours and I'm not sure I was ready to leave. The harbour master gave us a red light and has we did a pirouette decide to be play nice and changed it to green. We motored out in to a bright sunny day. Heading for Brittany and St. Quay d'Armour. Me grumbling, oats not in pan, lunch not made etc. Still we were able to put up the sails and managed to sail quite a reasonable speed on 10 to 14 knots of wind. 2 reefs in main and not a lot of Genoa out as we are still not friends the Genoa and I. We sailed all the way to just beyond Roche Douvre and then the wind dropped. So Genoa in. A bit of a performance as I was waiting for a disaster but it almost behaved itself and we motored on. I must say at this point there was a horrible swell and we both had a headache. Going below to plot, make drinks and food was pretty horrid. Wind over tide. Tide eventually turned and although we still had swell it was not so floppy. Then it got cold because the sun went in. The wind got up (not in forecast) Only 20 Knots but with big gusts.(not in forecast). We were only an hour away from St. Quay so decided to leave the engine on as we were both tired and the weather looked grim.
We arrived in a bit of a blow and really glad to be here, especially when harbour control said we could use the long pontoon!!!! I could get off and tie us up really easily. Wind blew hard all night and forecast not brilliant. We were in bed by 8.45 and didn't wake up until 06.00 hours.
Decided to stay a week. Friday became wash day as tomorrow not expected to be dry. Went to shower block and as we were the only people about and showers 7 minutes ( what a waste for one person) decided to economise and shower together. Halved the cost. Which proves two people can live as cheaply as one.
The skipper is sporting pink nail varnish on one nail and thinks it might start a fashion. More later.
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