One has to leave at high tide, needless to say, so we woke up at 5 AM to the alarm on my cell phone, and in the first daylight at 6 we where already under way. Slowly motoring in a drizzling rain and a light fog. Everything went fine through the channel this time, and soon enough we where in rhum sea again.

Not much wind today either, so we ended up motoring all day long. This far on the voyage, we have either had headwind or no wind at all, but we expect this to change once we turn south over the Bay of Biscay.

The plan was to go to the *Isle d'Houat' (The Duck Island) today but since the forecast mention NW wind tonight we changed our plans and continued to the river 'La Vilaine' (The Evil) instead. This meant motoring five hours more over a dead calm Sea. After noon the sky cleared though, and it was sunny and very warm the rest of the day. After entering the River Estuary (at high tide, mind you) and going a ew miles up river we arrived to the town of Arzal where there is a lock and a dam, so the rest of the river upstream is calm and tide-less. The construction was made in the 60-ies to put an end to the regular floodings that gave the river it's name.

After passing the lock at 8PM, we anchored at the first spot we found, quite close to the town.