Hélitreuillages

The French Navy's Search and Rescue helicopter squadron at Hyères has asked us to offer a moving target for their winching crews to practice sending down divers, paramedics, stretchers, etc. Two exercises this week, one tonight in the dark, and one on Thursday morning, in the daylight.

This is what it looks like in daylight from our boat, with apologies for the music

... And here is what it looks like at night, again with our boat, but seen from the helicopter

Then, not this weekend but the next, tamer stuff: a lot of work manning information stands for the Journée du Patrimoine. Most of it sounds fun, but there is going to be a mass blessing of boats, so the language on board, whilst the priest intones and sprinkles, is likely to have to be a bit more what is in the dictionary, and less concerned with the human anatomy. Not that anybody can hear above the din of two turbocharged Volvo diesels.