On the chart this looks pretty straight forward, but can be anything but – even in meagre wind over tide conditions, and has been one passage Gordon has not been looking forward to. I enclose a picture of it, albeit in severe conditions, to compare with the benign conditions of a Northerly wind and a South going tide that we encountered.
However, with planning and the weather gods, we went through it with full sail up and a nice north easterly 3 – 4 blowing.
We reached Audirene about 19:00 in a fresh breeze and picked up a mooring for the night.
Glad this passage went well :-)That first picture reminds me of the opening scene in Bourne Identity.Scarey stuff.xx
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