Glenans & Groix Tuesday, June 15, 2010 This our second day here. Since leaving PLF (whew!) our sailing adventures have begun. Our first foray out tested the boat and us. She passed, we scraped by with a lost sail batten. Back to PLF to replace it and then out that afternoon to Iles de Glenans – home of one of the world’s best-known sailing schools, started after the war to raise the spirits of the ex-resistance French. We see the school fleet just about everywhere we go. The wind was from the North so we picked up a buoy on the south side of the sandbar on the main island. First we’d tried the N side – too bumpy so we moved. Unfortunately it was getting late in the day so the choice of parking spaces (buoys) was very limited, like a game of musical chairs. We managed to get one with enough water – just. At low water we had about 30 cm below the keel – like floating in a puddle really. Just after 2000 we got off SM and into the dinghy, hoping that the outboard that hadn’t ...
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