We took a mooring buoy overnight offshore San Xulian on the Isle of Arousa. There were probably half a dozen other boats in the Anchorage, but because we wanted to be near the shore, so as to limit the impact of the wind, we ended up mooring just ahead of a Dutch couple in a…

So when we came around the corner of Spain, having crossed the Bay of Biscay, we realised that the storm’s path afforded us an opportunity to head further south and avoid being Stormbound in A Coruña. We sailed past, and headed down to Muros, a quaint old fishing town where we felt we would be…

A significant journey. A bit of wind, a lot of wind, no wind. Blue skies, red skies black skies. 0.5m swell, 2m swell. Some sleep. No sleep! 354 N Mile. 48 Hours. Average speed of over 6.5 knots. Having left in a bit of a rush on Wednesday evening, we dined on Pasta & Pesto…

We have just finished the repairs. Refuelled and filled the water tanks. Sourdough is in the oven, mackerel has been converted into Patè. Sadly we cannot find horseradish, so we have instead used wasabi and it works well! We need to leave tonight, as a very low pressure system is heading our way and we…

Nice and humid here! Our dinner in Andre’s was wonderful. Woke to fresh croissant and coffee, boiled on the hob. Then in the morning we; – fixed the water maker tank sensor (was supplied upside down!) – lubricated the bow thruster controller (had suffered water damage previously) – transferred our reserve fuel to the main…

Dinner of pheasant crumble (One of Mrs R’s best dishes👍), followed by bananas and custard! We might have gone slightly over the top with provisioning 16 L of custard🤣 Isle D’yeu is a beautiful forested island. Different from anything we’ve seen so far. It’s noteworthy that we haven’t seen a single English yacht nor tourist…

Le Palais is, by a long way, the prettiest place we’ve visited. The town sits on the opposite side of a canal, under a massive citadel. It was built by the French in the 18th century, to defend the island. Within two years of its completion, the English captured it. We then sold it back…

In times of old, a sailors biggest fear was attack by sea creatures – The Kraken and its like. As the sea was tamed by better and bigger boats the reality was revealed that bad weather was the cause of most maritime losses. With the advent of more sophisticated weather modelling like the ones we…

We had a great sail from Concarneau over to the islands. 18 kn of wind and we were travelling at 8.5 kn. The islands are described as being as close to the Caribbean on this side of the Atlantic. The look is very similar to the Isles of Scilly as well. We dined on chicken…

Woke to a sunny day. We then undertook some boat repairs. The water pump kept cycling, so we changed that one out. Lovely old town