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This is the blog of Maunie of Ardwall. After a six-year adventure sailing from Dartmouth to Australia, we are now back in Britain.

Wednesday 5 September 2012

About to leave France, but we have a yogurt crisis!

After a brilliantly relaxing few days on the Brittany coast it'll be hard to leave France.


However we need to get south across the Bay and the forecast looks as good as it's going to get over the next few days. We're promised F4 NE to E winds so that should give us a chance to fly the spinnaker but we'll see; at the moment it's pretty calm.

We've used the day's stopover in Loctudy pretty well: visited the market for some local cheese and meats; restocked on general food and wine (of course - 5 litre boxes of very acceptable Merlot are 10 euros!); continued to reorganise stowage on the boat (Graham has a mild fixation about fore and aft trim so has been moving heavy objects into the forward lockers) and did a bit of admin.

Thanks to the wonders of wifi (and a wifi antenna which is currently clipped to the end of the boom) we can get high speed internet on the boat in the marina so did a Skype conversation with Graham's parents in Scotland last night. We also have all the kit to print and encapsulate important documents so now have a complete list of our medical supplies, organised by key symptoms.


So all's pretty good aboard Maunie except for one thing: we have a yogurt crisis! The last pot of Yeo Valley Organic was consumed this morning at breakfast.



We'll have to contact Yeo Valley HQ to see if an parachute drop can be arranged for the middle of Biscay. If not, the thought of inferior French yogurt is almost too much to bear!


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