Wednesday, 18 August 2010 18:01 | By Christine Diment
The yachts of the Biscay Triangle Fleet have been reporting their arrival in UK waters and completion of the rally.
"Argonauta", a Gibsea 422 with Peter & Jackie Jackson and their crew, David Fiddes, arrived back in Eastbourne on Friday 13th in the early hours of the morning after 'a fairly good sail' as Jackie put it.
"Shenanigan", the Jeanneau 42i with Brian & Nick Tweedie-Smith, Michaela, Chris & Timmy Parker arrived safely back in Brighton just before midnight on the 14th August after a 36 hour trip from L'Aberwrach.
"Misty" the Moody 346 is now in St Peter Port, Guernsey, and will be taking their time over the return sail, hopefully arriving in Chichester by the end of the week. David & Deborah's son, Michael, has now returned to England separately in order to get his A Level results so Good Luck!
"Vertigo" has yet to report in but they had been with the other two boats for part of the time.
Wednesday, 11 August 2010 17:47 | By Tony Diment, Rally Director
Shenanigan, Misty and Vertigo are now safely in St Evette near Audierne, South Brittany. They spent last night in the Iles de Glenan. St Evette, is a useful place to rest up prior to sailing through the Raz de Sein and up through the Chenal du Four. From here the yachts will be able to time things carefully in order to reach the Raz exactly on slack water just as the tide starts to run North, Tomorrow slack water will be around 1.10pm (French time) so everyone should be leaving St Evette about two hours before this. St Evette has pleasant moorings but may become rolly in Southerly winds, however, with Northerlies forecast this is unlikely to happen - only problem is that they will be going North once through the Raz (tidal race) so we wish them a good trip... next stop will probably be L'Aberwrach on the North Brittany coast.
Monday, 09 August 2010 10:50 | By Tony Diment, Rally Director
The passage from La Coruna exceeded most expectations as the forecast headwinds backed into the West and gave most yacts a beam reach towards France. Shenanigan arrived off Houat before dusk on Thursday and were joined by others early on Friday for a day on the beach and a very successful BBQ.
Everyone arrived in a very busy La Trinite by midday Saturday and were thankful that berths had been reserved for the rally.
Tuesday, 03 August 2010 09:04 | By Tony Diment, Rally Director
At 0800am this morning the Biscay Triangle yachts sailed from La Coruna for La Trinite in South Brittany. The first 24 hours promises to be somewhat tricky with Notherly winds of about 15 knots. Hopefully yachts will manage to get sufficiently far North by the end of the day in order to bear away for Brittany. The plan is for everyone to converge upon the island of Houat by Friday evening and then sail into La Trinite by midday Saturday.
Wednesday, 01 September 2010 12:59 | By Tony Diment, Rally Director
Participants in this year's Biscay Triangle Rally will be interested to learn that a 5- page article covering the rally will be published in the October issue of Yachting Monthly magazine. There are some good photographs of participants and yachts and of course this is how Rally Control gets to hear what really went on during those memorable 3 weeks. A recommended read...
Friday, 13 August 2010 12:51 | By Tony Diment, Rally Director
`Misty' (Moody 346 David & Deborah Faulder) has reported safe arrival in L'Aberwrach on the North Brittany coast, having sailed through the Chenal du Four yesterday. It appears that today may be a day of rest before pushing on Eastwards tomorrow.
The North Easterly winds although only light to moderate will make things problematic for yachts returning to the Solent but it is likely that they will make their way along the French coast, possibly to Morlaix and then up to the Channel Islands before crossing the Channel.
Tuesday, 10 August 2010 16:02 | By Tony Diment, Rally Director
The Biscay Triangle Rally are now independently cruising South Brittany and working their way towards the English Channel. Some yachts have greater time to explore and cruise, others have to return to home ports within this week so there is a variety of cruising plans:
Argonauta reported safe arrival in Benodet on Monday evening after a good sail. The plan from there is to sail North of Finisterre on Tuesday when there is the prospect of South Westerly winds and reach L'Aberwrach, thereby giving them several different options for sailing back towards the East Coast.
Vertigo arrived in busy Sauzon on the island of Belle Isle yesterday afternoon and reported being rafted up 8 to a mooring buoy. They have cloudless warm sunshine in 26degrees C!
Misty and Shenanigan were heading for the island of Houat yesterday where they wish to have a re-run of last week's barbecueing and beach extravaganza.
Wednesday, 04 August 2010 15:48 | By Tony Diment, Rally Director
The Discovery 55 `Kindred' (owned by Mark Phillips) and with Julia and Harry aboard has reported safe arrival in Benodet, South Brittany. They departed La Coruna at 0600am on Monday and were berthed up by early afternoon on Wednesday 4th August. In the latter stages of the passage they had to reef as Force 7 winds came in from the North West. Mark has to be back in England early next week - hence the early departure Northwards.
Saturday, 31 July 2010 15:32 | By Tony Diment, Rally Director
After Kindred’s extremely fast passage to La Coruna three further yachts (Mawari, Shenanigan and Vertigo) arrived in sunny Spain between 5.00pm and 6.00pm Friday evening having also experienced wonderful downwind passages from Torquay. Cruising chutes, spinnakers and code Os were the order of the day with average speeds of 7 knots for the 500 mile passage. The remainder of the fleet have all safely arrived by midday Saturday. A pontoon party this evening will reveal all of the 'tales of the deep' and tomorrow , apart for a briefing of the trip to South Brittany, there will be a tapas and drinks party in the Real Club Nautico in La Coruna.
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