The last week or so...

So it's been a pretty packed last week (or so....) - we left Falmouth bright and early on a Wednesday morning and after a pretty crappy overnight sail, arrived in Roscanvel (NW France).

Roscanvel was a pretty nice place, although really, really, REALLY quiet. There were some nice sailing ships out & about in the Rade de Brest.

Anyways, our days were spent visiting the local Tabac (the only shop in town really) to stock up on baguettes, cheap wine and nectarines. All for 1/4 the price of the UK. Brill.

A weather window finally came up to get down to La Coruna (albeit with very light winds), so we loaded up the boat again and set sail on the Wednesday.

What a grind. Wednesday was motorsailing, Thursday was more motoring than sailing, and Friday was a tiny bit of sailing, followed by bobbing with almost all sails down while a bit of a blow came through, then getting going again and motorsailing down to La Coruna, arriving this morning (Saturday). A bit of damage on the way - blew the genoa block 10 mins out of Roscanvel (quick replacement) but also snapped the boom goose neck (the piece of metal that connects the boom to the mast). This is a bit more of an issue, so we're going to spend a few days in La Coruna to see if it can be specially welded.

And there you have it. What we've been up to this past week.