Friday 10 and Saturday 11 June

June 10, 2011

Boekanier Trip from Boulogne-sur-mer to Dieppe: 55 miles.

- The day started at 7:00 AM with hardy any wind.
So, we doubted whether to go or not to go...
The weather was disappointing: rain and cold.
- When the rains turn on the wind turns off and we motored till 12 o'clock.
- Nice views on the white cliffs (Stolen from England?) for a few miles.

As soon as the wind shifted and came in sidewys, we set up "de Bolle Jan" (or in English: Halfwinder (65m2)) for 10 miles and we reached a maximum speed of 7.1 knots.

We arrived in Dieppe Harbor at 20:00 hours and that was too late to meet the harbor master.
So, we found ourselves a nice berth for the boat and went out for dinner.
Dieppe is a very nice, typical French town with the Jehan Argo Marina just in front of the boulevard with hundreds of restaurants.
We had Moules and the Ukrainian guys were served a Marmite de Dieppe: a small pot with differend cooked fish.
People say: in Dieppe the Marmite is the best in the world, but without any reference that's difficult to confirm.
Actually we ordered something else: grilled fish, but due to our bad French (or the even worse listening of the French waiter) they were served the marmites.

We decided over dinner that June the 11th will be a day without sailing so we stayed in Dieppe.
As it is Saturday: there is offcourse a market in Dieppe, but we didn't expected the market to be so large.
It more or less covered the whole city center.
We bought some nice cheese and sausages for the five o'clock "Steigerborrel".
Even our Ukrainian fiends now know what "Steigerborrel" means and can even pronounce this Dutch word correctly.

After some hours trying our I.T. experts managed to get our pictures on PPicasa. The link to see our pictures is: https://picasaweb.google.com/108899198578355108092

We'll keep you posted.
Cees, Sam, Andrej and Dima