Just back from a week's (lateen) sailing in the sheltered but very tidal inland sea of the Morbihan. The occasion was the 'Semaine du Golfe', and the opportunity to sail was provided by the jolly crowd from CaraMed, which brings together all the nutcases who want to sail on traditional mediterranean craft. It felt funny, as a Welshman, to be representing the Med in Brittany.
Still, we brought mediterranean weather with us, swapping it, apparently, for Breton-style damp and cold which hovered over Antibes the whole week we were up north.
I sailed on the Catalina, a lovely blue and yellow pointu with a nice turn of speed. The only time she let us down was when motoring to a difficult berth with a six-knot tide. We missed the sound of splintering wood only by a liberal dose of heaving, rowing and fendering. Still, it was fun...
The final parade of boats was madness, with the current rendering most craft unmanoeuvrable, and the indiscipline of some crews creating really dangerous situations. Some boats were sunk, and certainly a few injuries were tallied up. Our friends in the SNSM up there were kept really busy.
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