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It’s an ill wind that blows no good Before we could depart Les Sables d’Olonne we had to wait, once again, for a storm to blow itself out on [...]

An evening trip to Les Sables d'Olonne The next day the storm abated sufficiently for us to make an uneventful trip down to Les Sables d’Olonne. Having left Île d'Yeu [...]

The last leg to Les Sables d'Olonne The conditions for the second leg of our trip to Les Sables d’Olonne were meant to be a little bit nasty in the [...]

The weather finally calms down After five days on Belle-Île the storm conditions had abated and our much-anticipated appointment with Alubat, for a factory tour of Yuma’s birthplace at Les [...]

Off to a new island After a bouncy night in our now unpleasantly exposed bay we headed across to Belle-Île-en-Mer, a couple of hours upwind and to the south [...]

Another tidal stream We left Vannes on a sunny morning and motored down the river to the Golfe du Morbihan. Out there, on the slightly more open water, the [...]

Motoring into Vannes A couple of hours further east of our anchorage off Gavrinis lies Vannes with its fantastically preserved and impressive walled old town. [...]

Into the Golfe du Morbihan A short and unremarkable sail took us from La Trinité-sur-Mer around the Locmariaquer peninsula and into the Golfe du Morbihan, a shallow maze of [...]