30 miles around the coast today, west to L'Aber Benoit. The wind was on the nose and we took the easy option, motorsailing. It was grey and pretty lumpy in the swell but soon blue skies took over and it felt a different day. The N Brittany coast here looks fearsome, wild and rocky. We kept a respectable berth. The spring tide gave us an extra 3 knots of speed so we made it in good time and spent the afternoon exploring and swimming upriver.
Tomorrow we'll be heading around the end of Brittany, through the Chenal du Four with the morning tide, then out past the Isle de Sein and across the Bay of Biscay heading for La Coruna in Galicia. 350 miles which we expect will take us 3 days. It's time to start a watch system, set up the wind steering and the towed generator, and have our first taste of a few days out of sight of land.
Goodbye France, for now