YouGo

In September I took a Serendipity Sailing team to the Channel Islands and France for a week. We used the Cornish Cruising Bavaria 36, "YouGo". There were six of us; Tim, Peter, Chris, David, Trevor and myself.

After a night up the Fal, and lunch in St Mawes, we set sail for St. Peter Port arriving the following day after a good overnight

passage. We had a great meal ashore in St Peter Port and left the following morning for Herm with a challenging bit of pilotage by Trevor through the rocks to a lovely anchorage where we experience a strange mix of glorious sunshine and fog!

We sailed in the fog, reckoning it was safer than staying in the very tidal anchorage over night

in fog and the dark. Sailing in fog around Sark was another challenging bit of navigation. The fog

only cleared as we headed off into open water to the east of Sark. We were heading to Carteret in Normandy, eventually arriving in the dark around midnight.

Carteret river and marina can only be entered at high tide. It was amazing to walk down to the beach later and see miles of foreshore high and dry. We had a great Normandy meal of Crepes

and cider at lunchtime.

We didn't stay long as we had to catch the next evening tide. We headed back across the channel to Dartmouth. The forecast had been easterlies of about force 4. In the end it was force 7 for most of the night and following day! This plus crossing very busy shipping lanes made it an eventful sail. We enjoyed arriving in Dartmouth in lovely sunshine.

After one night in Dartmouth we had a day sail back to St Mawes, arriving late on the Friday evening. We had arranged to hold onto YouGo for a few extra hours as I had been asked to open and bless the St Mawes Fish Festival on the Quay. It was great fun going ashore for some wonderful fresh fish and meeting up with family and friends. When we got back on board we had a grandstand view of the St Mawes Working Boat Harbour Race. The it was back to Falmouth to hand the boat back and home in time to hear news that our first grandchild Reuben had just

been born in Truro!