Brittany, France – we arrived in the town of Camaret about 7:30PM on Thursday, July 4th after leaving A Coruna, Spain at 6:30AM on Tuesday, July 2nd. It was worth the wait to get a good weather window. Even with that we had a combination of very little wind (which means flatter seas), winds piping up to 28 knots so we made some good time, lots of fog so we really enjoyed our technical devices to “see” where we were, a few pods of dolphins visiting (we saw them each day) and the company of our friends, Foz and Lorraine on the Dutch sailing vessel, Aju. The day we had heavier winds this meant we also had a larger swell which tossed us around some so we had the feeling of being in a washing machine.
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