Saturday 2 June 2018

Ushant towards Camaret-sur-mer


We woke next morning to another sunny day, with a gentle south westerly breeze. Ideal for sailing out of the Bay, but virtually on the nose for part of the sail to Camaret. Wanting to sail as much as we could we raised sail on the mooring, but put the engine on to warm up, just in case.
Robinetta was eager to sail, and set off in a hurry once Julian untied the buoy. Unfortunately I was less prepared than the boat, and failed to keep Worm clear of the mooring. I had to reverse quite hard to help Julian get Worm free.
Sailing past Youc h' Korz
Once we were clear of the moorings I turned the engine off, and we sailed back along our track past the island of Youc h’ Korz and out between the arms of the bay. Once we were clear of the Phare de la Jument we turned onto a course towards Camaret. We needed to motor sail to make anything like our course, and once again we ran into overfalls half a mile clear of the bay. These were not nearly as bad as the ones off Pern though, and we sailed out of them without too much stress.
By the time we were approaching Camaret the wind had died, and we got the main sail down 3 miles off the harbour. There were plenty of other yachts around, most of them heading for Camaret like us.
The harbour master in his rib did not seem interested in us, so we moored up on the inside of the breakwater pontoon, as visitors are supposed to do. This was filling up fast, there was only room for one more boat behind us and that was soon taken. Then the harbour master appeared, and offered us a place in the inner harbour, closer to the shops. We were glad to move, and by 19:00 we were ashore, and eating dinner at the Kraken, the first restaurant we came to (which was highly recommended by Trip Advisor, and very good).

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