Peter Port - Treguier
We had a lie in and left Guernsey at around 6:45 it was a bit too early as we had foul tide at the start and so it took a long time to get out of the jaws of Guernsey. Once the tide eased we were on our way. The winds we coming from the west which was not a great point of sail to Terguier it meant we were hard on the wind. The coastline is very much L shaped with St Malo in the corner and with spring tide running the seas were quite confused. I tried to take a photo but it looks fine the reality was a bit different. If you look closely at the photo you can see our decks were wet. We tried to sail with the job and a furled main but were too slow. So then we tried the genoa and we were over powered, it was really had to get the balance right so we did a million sail changes as the winds strengthened out went the job and as it eased in it came and the genoa went out.
Arriving off Treguier the winds really picked up and this was a pain because I had planned to enter via the eastern entrance(very narrow) but with strong winds I was concerned that there might be breaking waves in there so we opted for the main western entrance which was another three miles but as we had headed to the eastern entrance we had to go directly into the wind to get around the corner.
The journey up the river is nearly seven miles and it was just after low tide, we had missed slack water by an hour or so and by the time we arrived at the marina it was two hours after low tide with the flood running. We were met by the female harbourmaster (harbourmistress?) in a launch do directed us to a hammerhead but there was not enough water to turn around so we had to approach it in reverse down tide(far from ideal) fortunately the bow thruster was able to cope and I managed to get straight on with a lot of bellowing of instructions fro the launch. She was mainly telling us about the cross tide which was quite strong.
We love Tregueir and soon went for a walk around the town in search of a late lunch. We went to a creperie which was a bit disappointing but it was welcome all the same. In the centre of the town square there is a bronze of Ernest Renan who was a French academic who believed in Darwinism, he said that Jeasus shoudl be judged like any other man and scrutinised as such. For this act of "heresy" the Catholic church caused him a great deal of trouble and divided the town. He did however get enough support for them to recognise him for what he was and now he is part of thew town. Later we were joined by Heodic and Titian Blue and Linda cooked a meal for us all.
The next day was a wash out for me, I was desperate to get the bikes out and explore and go to the very unusual chandlers, but I had to do some work as we are very thin on the ground at the office. Sadly there was so much to do it took until nearly 2pm to do everything so the day was lost. Susan became the hostess and we ate on Heodic that evening. Upon returning we discovered that our fresh water pump had failed and whilst we could get water out it was spraying rusty water all over the place in the cupboard, leaving some nasty stains on our cockpit tent which is stored there. Tomorrow I will have to go to the chandlers and buy a replacement.
Arriving off Treguier the winds really picked up and this was a pain because I had planned to enter via the eastern entrance(very narrow) but with strong winds I was concerned that there might be breaking waves in there so we opted for the main western entrance which was another three miles but as we had headed to the eastern entrance we had to go directly into the wind to get around the corner.
The journey up the river is nearly seven miles and it was just after low tide, we had missed slack water by an hour or so and by the time we arrived at the marina it was two hours after low tide with the flood running. We were met by the female harbourmaster (harbourmistress?) in a launch do directed us to a hammerhead but there was not enough water to turn around so we had to approach it in reverse down tide(far from ideal) fortunately the bow thruster was able to cope and I managed to get straight on with a lot of bellowing of instructions fro the launch. She was mainly telling us about the cross tide which was quite strong.
We love Tregueir and soon went for a walk around the town in search of a late lunch. We went to a creperie which was a bit disappointing but it was welcome all the same. In the centre of the town square there is a bronze of Ernest Renan who was a French academic who believed in Darwinism, he said that Jeasus shoudl be judged like any other man and scrutinised as such. For this act of "heresy" the Catholic church caused him a great deal of trouble and divided the town. He did however get enough support for them to recognise him for what he was and now he is part of thew town. Later we were joined by Heodic and Titian Blue and Linda cooked a meal for us all.
The next day was a wash out for me, I was desperate to get the bikes out and explore and go to the very unusual chandlers, but I had to do some work as we are very thin on the ground at the office. Sadly there was so much to do it took until nearly 2pm to do everything so the day was lost. Susan became the hostess and we ate on Heodic that evening. Upon returning we discovered that our fresh water pump had failed and whilst we could get water out it was spraying rusty water all over the place in the cupboard, leaving some nasty stains on our cockpit tent which is stored there. Tomorrow I will have to go to the chandlers and buy a replacement.
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Ernest Penan