Roscoff to L'Aber Wrac'h
02 September 2013
Stu & Shar
As we left Bloscom harbour the harbour master came rushing across yelling at us to stop. The lights for entering/leaving the harbour were red but you couldn't see them with the angle of the sun. A ferry was pulling into port so we had to wait until it berthed, this delayed us for 15 minutes as the Plymouth/Roscoff backed into its berth. Today we couldn't work the tides as they were against us and the winds were very light, maximum of 10kts, so it was a slow sail to L'Aber Wrac'h (eight hours to do 45 miles)......We motored through the shallow channel between Roscoff and the "Ile de Batz" a small island which boast a tropical garden planted over 40 years in the late 1800's by an Parisian businessman, but is predominantly a fishing and farming island of about 600 inhabitants. Clearing the channel we slowly moved westward. About 5 miles out to see a small bat, about the size of your hand landed on the main sail and crawled into the fold of the boom bag. I tried to take a photo of him but this scared him and he went forward and climbed in the mast end. He stayed there until we got close to the entrance to L'Aber Wrac'h and flew away near the entrance marker to the channel...unfortunately I still couldn't get a photo. I made a real hash of the landing when we got into the harbour and went around three times, until Shar could get a line on. Sailing is the easy bit....parking Songbird in a cross wind without a bow thruster is like trying to put your finger in the bum of an elephant...there is heaps of space but you just can't reach it, as you get blown away by the wind...