{"id":13422,"date":"2020-06-30T23:02:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-30T23:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=13422"},"modified":"2022-01-06T22:27:18","modified_gmt":"2022-01-06T22:27:18","slug":"tuesday-30th-june-2020-it-was-an","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=13422","title":{"rendered":"Tuesday 30th June 2020 &#8211; IT WAS AN &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; early start this morning. We were supposed to be present in the dining room at 06:00. And much to my own surprise I was there as well &#8211; which just goes to show that I can do it when I try, even though something awoke me at 03:30 and I didn&#8217;t go back to sleep for an hour and a half.<\/p>\n<p>There were some things on the dictaphone that I listened too and which I&#8217;ll transcribe in due course. But a welcome return to Zero who has accompanied me on many travels in the past but hasn&#8217;t been around for a couple of years. How nice for once to see a familiar friendly face on my journeys around the ether.<\/p>\n<p>When the tide turned at 07:00 or thereabouts we were all fed and watered (I actually had some bread and jam and a banana) and we set sail out of the bay where we had spent the night. Straight into a raging sea.<\/p>\n<p>We were all allowed to take our turn at the wheel &#8211; to keep it between 45 and 50 degrees to the wind. And it&#8217;s not that easy steering a 67 foot yacht in a high wind at speed. It reminded me very much of trying to steer a Morris Marina &#8211; you turn the wheel and nothing happens for a couple of minutes and then suddenly it swings right round &#8211; far too far so you have to swing it back and inevitably repeat the process. I zigzagged my way down the Brittany coast like a drunken sailor as far as Cap Frehel and then someone else took the reins.<\/p>\n<p>Talking of Cap Frehel, I took a photo of it as we went past. Regular readers of thie rubbish will recall that a few weeks ago I took a few photos of what I thought was Cap Frehel and there was a very distinctive object visible, even though it is 70 or so kms away from Granville. When I edit the photo that I took today, you can compare it with the one that I took then and draw your own conclusions.<\/p>\n<p>Shortly after this I was overwhelmed with fatigue and started to have the shakes again and went freezing cold, which is not like me, hot stuff that I am. I think that I&#8217;ve eaten something that I shouldn&#8217;t. Only one cure for that, and that was bed. And there I stayed for &#8230; <em>gulp<\/em> &#8230; three and a half hours. I missed lunch, so I was back to two meals per day despite having had breakfast.<\/p>\n<p>It took a while to recover my composure too.<\/p>\n<p>By now we were sailing up a river towards the port of Lezardrieux where we eventually found a mooring. I was in charge of tying up the bow and I could have done a better job there too.<\/p>\n<p>We had an aperitif (tisane for me) and then took the zodiac to the shore. A pretty little town it is and I&#8217;ll tell you why &#8211; and that is that even though the port car park has been remodelled like that of Granville, it&#8217;s not an appalling, tasteless patch of tarmac but nicely cobbled with trees and bushes, which just goes to show that you can do it if you try.<\/p>\n<p>What a dreadful lack of taste there is in Granville.<\/p>\n<p>There are also rows of low wooden posts around there marking the boundary as I discovered to my cost when I wasn&#8217;t looking where I was going.<\/p>\n<p>Another thing here are public showers and I wish that I had known that before I came ashore.<\/p>\n<p>Later in the evening we &#8211; three of us actually &#8211; went for a zodiac ride upriver. And enjoyable as it was, the rain put a dampener on the whole proceedings. We&#8217;re having no luck with the weather.<\/p>\n<p>There had been pasta for lunch and there was some left over so I had that with one of the curries that I had brought.<\/p>\n<p>But now it&#8217;s pouring down with rain outside and it&#8217;s not the weather to be out taking the air. I&#8217;m going to have another early night and hopefully have a good sleep. We&#8217;re back at sea tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p>******* PHOTOS AND MORE CONTENT WILL BE ADDED IN DUE COURSE *******<\/p>\n<div class='watch-action'><div class='watch-position align-left'><div class='action-like'><a class='lbg-style1 like-13422 jlk' href='javascript:void(0)' data-task='like' data-post_id='13422' data-nonce='3f31ac68df' rel='nofollow'><img class='wti-pixel' src='https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/wp-content\/plugins\/wti-like-post\/images\/pixel.gif' title='Like' \/><span class='lc-13422 lc'>0<\/span><\/a><\/div><div class='action-unlike'><a class='unlbg-style1 unlike-13422 jlk' href='javascript:void(0)' data-task='unlike' data-post_id='13422' data-nonce='3f31ac68df' rel='nofollow'><img class='wti-pixel' src='https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/wp-content\/plugins\/wti-like-post\/images\/pixel.gif' title='Unlike' \/><span class='unlc-13422 unlc'>0<\/span><\/a><\/div> <\/div> <div class='status-13422 status align-left'><\/div><\/div><div class='wti-clear'><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; early start this morning. We were supposed to be present in the dining room at 06:00. And much to my own surprise I was there as well &#8211; which just goes to show that I can do it when I try, even though something awoke me at 03:30 and I didn&#8217;t go back to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13708,44,4507,1616,13711,13710,12036,418],"tags":[8725,11553,212,2560,8037,5565,8581,13712,13709,286,12037,5390,273],"class_list":["post-13422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brittany","category-dream","category-eric-hall-2","category-france","category-lezardrieux","category-port-de-briac","category-spirit-of-conrad","category-tahu","tag-brittany","tag-cap-frehel","tag-dream","tag-eric-hall","tag-fell-over","tag-france","tag-granville","tag-lezardrieux","tag-port-de-briac","tag-rainstorm","tag-spirit-of-conrad","tag-tahu","tag-tawny"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13422"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13422\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15478,"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13422\/revisions\/15478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}