Category: 2026 Year of the ARC

Thursday 16 July 

Part 1: What a send off!

Well the time has finally come to set off on our voyage down to the Canary Islands and we had quite the send off.

Fri & Sat 18, 19 July

We always love visiting Guernsey as she is such a beautiful and welcoming island.

Sat-Sun 18-19 July

Guernsey to Roscoff 74nm

The one thing you can rely on when sailing is that the weather forecast is always wrong.

Sunday 20 July

Roscoff is a beautiful Breton town full of elegant granite houses with Mediterranean flora and delicious sea food.

Roscoff to Aber-Wrach 35nm

Monday 20 July

Well, what can I say – today we had perfect champagne sailing (sans champagne!) –

Aber-Wrach to Camaret-sur-Mer 35nm

Tuesday 21 July

We left Aber-Wrach around 10.30, with everyone else it would seem, we are all planning for the best time to go through the infamous Chenal du Four.

Camaret-sur-Mer to Sainte Marine 65nm

Wednesday 22 July

We had a nice wind leaving pretty Camaret and had main, Yankee and staysail pulling us along gurgling through the flat sea.

Sainte Marine to Concarneau 12nm

Thursday 23 July 

We left sunny Sainte Marine late morning and had light airs for our short sail to Concarneau. 

Concarneau to Belle Île 45nm

Friday 24 July

We said goodbye to beautiful but busy Concarneau and set a course for Belle Île. We still have Easterlies so we were actually beating for once using our stay sail (going into the wind for you landlubbers).

Belle Ile to Ile d’Yeu 55nm

Saturday 25 July

We set off South East on another sunny morning heading for the Ile d’Yeu.