La Trinite sur Mer

On arrival we really liked it, we were told we could only have one night in our berth and the next day we would need to move as the same blinking race that had gone into Crouesty was now coming in here! That was fine, however, we got moved to the furthest away berth, it was a bugger to get into and we had every Tom Dick and Harry rafting against us, and it was only us, firstly another Moody 31 came against us, they moved and a French boat came in their place. There were other boats all along the pontoon but they all chose us. Must be my good looks or something. Anyway, the racers didn’t stay and as it happens we could probably have stayed where we were. Annoying!

We are staying here till Sunday, as it’s the 50^th anniversary of the Transat with the Pen Duicks of Eric Taberley, five or six of the Pen Duicks are coming in here tomorrow and there is meant to be all sorts of entertainment going on so we will hang around to see what happens.

It has been very hot and sunny, probably warmer than I thought it would be here which meant we had to sort out a sun awning sooner than we expected. We had Saturn Sails at home give us a quote for a simple A frame type that comes from the boom over the cockpit. They quoted £350 which we thought was a bit hefty. The chandlers here have a very similar one which was coming in about 200 – 285 Euros depending on the size. We were on the verge of buying one and had come back to the boat to measure up when we decided to get out a tarpaulin which Gordon had brought with him thinking it would come in handy if we were wintering the boat somewhere and might offer a bit of protection. Well, would you believe it, it’s more or less the perfect size and after a wee trip to the chandlers to buy a couple of meters of shock cord and some bungee clips which cost us a whole 7 Euros, we have a great sun awning. It might not be quite as refined as the one in the chandlers, but it does the exact same job. Result! Might even go and buy some of this great wine we have found at 1.50 Euros a bottle. Why can’t we get these sort of prices at home? On second thoughts, that might not be a good idea, I would only drink more. Anyway, Cheers!

Well the Pen Duicks arrived. Loads of boats went out into Quiberon Bay to meet them, then sailed into Trinite.

I must admit, my favourite of the boats was Pen Duick VI, absolutely nothing to do with the Skipper of that one.

The photo was only taken for Dave and Iain…….Mmm, well maybe not only them. Anyway, it was a good day and we went along to the concert at night,

it was a Cuban band playing and all the locals were dancing in the street. Needless to say, the Brits just watched. (Editor’s note …not correct I had a bit of a shimmy, George Benson eat your heart out)