We had heard that Penerf between Le Crouesty and the Vilaine entrance had a new midstream pontoon available for visitors, so we thought...

Le Palais We set sail at midday from Vannes to catch the tide out of the Morbihan to call at Port Haliguen then on to Le Palais the...

Shadow on the Ile aux Moines Visitor Pontoon With the weather well into the thirties we left St Goustan late morning for Ile aux Moines....

Cesar PHM, Auray River We decided next to go to St Goustan, the port for Auray up the Auray river. This requires careful planning and...

Entering the Morbihan For years we have walked the shores of the Morbihan, taking in the islands in this inland sea. It long been an...

Concarneau Marina from the Ville Close We left our mooring in the Iles de Glenan at nine and motored out of the shallows between the...

Looking towards Ile Cigogne A couple of days of sunny and calm weather were forecast so we planned to go to the Iles de Glenan, an...

Looking towards Ile Tudy We left Sainte Evette at eight and initially had a great sail towards Loctudy. Not fast but a steady five...

We left Camaret with plenty of time to get to our tidal gate at the Raz de Sein of one hour before high water Brest. The Raz is quite...

Camaret After a few days in Brest sorting out the boat and re-stocking and going out for an excellent meal for our 25th Wedding...

Roscoff We left Perros-Guirrec on Thursday to sail to Roscoff planning to meet our friends Mike and Carol there who were sailing from...

Friday saw us setting off just after 7 to Treguier. The forecast was for a Westerly 2 to 4, which turned out to be a Westerly F4. This...

Fort La Latte Wednesday saw us setting off for St Quay. The forecast was SW 4-6 becoming NW 4-5. Looking at the wind maps with the wind...

On Monday we set sail from St Malo to St Cast. A short ten mile hop, so in spite of the light winds we thought we would sail. We started...

We left St Peter Port at 0715 for what proved to be a frustrating sail. The forecast weather of a NW F3-4 promised a fast sail using the...

After a night in Alderney we set sail for Alderney. We left at midday to catch the tide down the Swinge. There was little wind again so...

We left Newtown Creek at just gone five in the morning. It was a drizzly murky day with little wind. Light winds and fog patches were...

We have decided to move Shadow to South Brittany and have started the journey South. We left or berth in Haslar for the last time on...

We left Alderney on Wednesday 4th August to sail back home. Again it was light winds and we ended up motor sailing across the channel...

With the news that Guernsey had opened up to visiting yachts from the UK we decided to head to Salcombe for one night then cross to...