Arzal to Haliguen 23rd August.

After a quiet night at Arzal when it finally rained overnight having threatened all day and not much to keep us occupied we left Arzal on 9.00 lock. nothing coming out and not many going in. Needed rising tide and above half tide so that decided the time.Ended up against a wall again with a French couple rafted but they knew what they were doing or had been bullied by the lock keeper before as they not only had fenders but ropes!!! Lock keeper in great hurry to get rid of us so I found myself scurrying from one side of the boat to the other. Tying off ropes round chains starboard side and raising fenders on port and taking lines. In the end Phil took over the chain and rope attachment as they have to be moved down the chains as the water runs out of the lock and they needed standing on at times as they were very tight.
It was then a steady slow procession down river as nobody wanted to get to the bar too soon. One French chap did decide to sail(there is always one) which was an absolute pain with little spare water. They day seemed fine and the forecast had been for light winds and we knew we would have a motor across Quiberon Bay because of the direction of the wind. What we hadn't expected was a rising sea and a rising wind. It was very grim. But fortunately the showers forecast didn't happen so at least we were dry!!! By the time we got to Haliguen we were both pretty fed up more an endurance feat than a days sailing. We were late getting in so ended up rafted to a French Feeling and the couple were very kind and took our lines.

A calm sea the day after our travel

TiGrA early morning

A fountain.
The French are good at frivolities (Art?)

The vieux port.
Small boats only

The pilot is right about the distance to the Capitainerie. It took half an hour to walk there and it was even further for bread the following morning. We had intended to be there a couple of days. The beaches looked superb but the forecast was good for 24th and atrocious for the rest of the week and so we decided to move on.