June 16, 2011

A sunny day in St. Peter Port, Victoria Marina.

When we woke up, much later then normal as we decided to stay for one day in St. Peter Port, the sun was shining.
We used the day to explore the island and discovered that it is indeed a beautiful place.
See the pictures we made form Guernsey.

Later that day we managed to get internetnd post the last two blogs.
When the skipper started to prepare the trip to St. Malo for Friday he found out that a Channel rat is on our route.
This means: there will be a real storm on Friday with winds up to 35 - 40 knots and to make things worse the wind will be coming from the direction we will have to sail.
After checking all the websites with weather forecast for this region, the skipper decided not to sail tomorrow, but to sail to St. Malo on Saturday.
Then th winds should be West, which is much better and have calmed down to
a force 5 Bf. That we should be able to handle over 55 miles.

Nevertheless it will not be an easy ride.
The only problem is, that Dima and Andrej have to be in Paris on Sunday as Dima's Schengen Visa will expire on Sunday.
So, in case the storm hasn't settled down by Saturday, there is no alternative anymore: we will have to go.
On Saturday, our new crew will arrive in St. Malo too.
It might be that they will have to wait for us as our ETA will be late in the evening.

Anyway, this evening Dima is cooking a nice meal with Salmon steaks.
After dinner we will visit the jazz cafe we discovered in town and have some extra pints to drown our disappointment.


Keep you posted.
Cees, Sam, Andrej and Dima.