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 blowing off the land it looked as though it would be a good sail and not too windy.
With a nine o'clock start the day started off nicely. Leaving the harbour there were lobster pots everywhere so we delayed putting up our sails until clear of the buoys and the boats fishing. We had one reef in the main and a pleasant sail past Fort La Latte and round Cap Frehel.
Cap Frehel
By eleven o'clock the wind had got up to F5 and we were close hauled into it with two reefs in the main and genoa. It was a fast but bumpy sail with waves over the foredeck and the occasional soaking in the cockpit. I had intended to go into St Quay via the Southern route (there are rocks directly outside that you route round either from the North or South) but the Southern tack was taking us backwards so we held our course other than tacking to avoid fishing boats.
As we approached the coast North of St Quay the wind got up the F7 over the deck and the anemometer decided to give up in protest. We tucked under the coast where the wind was less and got the sails down before motoring South down the channel to St Quay. We were met by the berthing master who took our lines as we berthed to another substantial pontoon. The guy in the French boat next to us asked if it was windy out there.
Safely berthed in St Quay we put some laundry on and took our bikes up the ramp to the quay as it was not far off high tide. I'm glad we did because the next morning the ramps from the pontoons to the quay were very steep.
The next day we took the bikes to the supermarket, which was up hill there but downhill with all the shopping. We then cycled to Binic for lunch.
Binic
We liked Binic and resolved to come back and visit in the boat next year.
On the way back to the boat we cycled into St Quay town for a look around, before getting back to the boat for dinner.
St Quay
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