We are taking the train to Vannes (Brittany) meeting up with Pierre the skipper and joining Sailing yacht Marie for a 17 day voyage down to Rabat in Morocco! Pierre and his wife live a couple of minutes around the corner from our house in Indre, and purely by chance we got talking about 3 weeks ago. The upshot is we're helping them sail their 14m Formosa Ketch (two sticks) down to its winter home!
All's going ok here - preparations for the cottage sale are moving slowly as France is virtually closed for the whole of August, that's why we reckoned we'd be safe enough to slip away! We're hoping to make our way back via Gibralter - do some radio training, and Barcelona - look at a junk rigged boat.
We'll keep you posted here!
By the way, if you want to track our voyage - email me and I'll add you to our mailing list!
Monday, August 17, 2009
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