MONDAY 30 JULY 2007
LES SABLES D’OLONNE TO ILE DE RE – 40 MILES
What a difference a day makes! It was a beautiful morning – warm and sunny. We had run out of butane gas and had changed to our camping gaz bottle, but although we had bought the Camping Gaz bottle and regulator when we were in Spain before, Roger had since fitted a gas solenoid which meant the bottle did not fit neatly in the gas locker. So we did what we seem to do every foreign holiday in the boat – we went searching for a new regulator. Roger bought a new, stronger hand-line for fishing. He seems to think it’s the equipment at fault, rather than his fishing skills.
We left Les Sables D’Olonne after lunch. The sea was flat and we sailed at about 4 – 5 knots. Roger wore shorts for the first time! Roger trailed the hand-line but it got caught between two buoys (unfortunately I was at the helm at the time) and we lost all the flies on the line.
We had slowed down to about 2-3 knots, so we flew the cruising chute. Although we have got a snuffer, it seemed to tangle a lot. Eventually we got it sorted and speed increased to 6 knots. When we tacked the cruising shute, it tore about 1ft in the sail which Roger had to sew.
We anchored at Ile de Re about 10.15 pm, clear of the shipping channel, just as the sun was setting.
WEDNESDAY 1 – 2 AUGUST 2007
The stop at Royan gave us a good chance to catch up on the washing, shopping and boat jobs. There was a leak on the back flush system on the watermaker which needed to be fixed, and the sacrificial strip on the headsail had started coming apart, which we stuck. Roger also bought some more lures and feathers to continue his fishing. He then oiled all his moving parts and greased his cocks!
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| The usual cruising chute tangle |
Spinnaker down and being repaired!
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