Archive for August, 2010

Over and Out

It was the forecast that decided us. If we left L’Aberwrach at tea time , we could take a gradually veering SW until just past Portland bill, drop the hook somewhere off the Purbeck coast and take the next days sea breeze all the way home in time to see Bryony before she left for […]

Dipping a Toe into History

Festinas progress home is somewhat erratic . Our sunny idyll in the Morbihan was eventually disturbed by rain ( a completely alien concept!) so we sailed 40 miles North to the lovely sandy archipelago of Glenans which nestles under the overhanging Penmarch peninsula. It is another wonderful sailing area with loads of places to anchor […]