Rainy Day Dreaming

Apparently the jetstream is not in its normal place for this time of year.  The result is another rainy day in the UK!  When is this year's UK summer going to arrive?

To brighten things up I've looked back over some photographs of our previous cruises and thought I'd post some of them so that you won't think that this blog is just about boring yacht maintenance.

Blasting through the Solent

Leaving the Isle of Wight behind

These were taken in the Solent and en-route to South Brittany which is one of our favourite sailing areas.  Sadly we haven't normally had enough holiday time to comfortably get there and back so the last time we visited was in late August and early September of 2009.  It was glorious weather and the fantastic anchorages were far less crowded than in high season.

Ster Wenn, Belle Ile, South Brittany

Ster Wenn, Belle Ile, South Brittany

Nicky is tied up with work until after the Olympics are over.  In some ways that is really good because normally we'd be looking to try to set off for a Summer cruise around about now.  The extra time waiting for Nicky to be free from work will give the jetstream a chance to sort itself out and hopefully bring us some good cruising weather.  We'll set off for several weeks to test the new equipment onboard and make sure that everything that we have pulled apart over the recent months is working properly.  We aim to revisit South Brittany looking for idyllic anchorages...

great seafood....

and sunshine sailing....

Happy thoughts and a taster of what's to come when we can cast off the shorelines and set sail full time.