Le Pouldu, Laita River
31 July 2009
We headed here to meet friends of ours, another french-Swedish couple that we got to know last winter in Falsterbo, Sweden.
Le Pouldu is a small, drying port in the estuary of *La Laita' rivier. Our friend had talked to the harbourmaster and been told that it should work for us given our draft of 1,6 meters to enter at high tide +/- 1 Hour. So we did.
The channel is narrow, as it turned out, very narrow. At one point, we happened to touch the fine sand bottom and with the last of the tide from behind got stuck. Lucky enough a small, local fishing vessel arrived after a few minutes and helped us off this sand bar. After some discussion in the very tiny port we were directed to a mooring along a long rope between a number of bouys, where the depth shoud be enough even at low tide.
As it later turned out, the few boats our size that actually made it into the port, all had pilotage from the locals, since the sand bars move once in a while. No harm done though, except maybe some antifouling paint lost underneath *Röde Orm's' sturdy full keel.
the estuary and teh little town of Pouldu is beautiful, and we had a wonder ful time here, thanks to Annika and Michel and some of there friends and neighbours. There's quite a bit of new footage in the Gallery from here.
Everything has it's time, and after letting a cold front (yes, another one) pass by, we left early one morning.