‘I had spares for everything except this’
Every year a small group of enthusiastic sailors from Fowey and surrounding ports try to venture abroad. The FOGOF (Fowey Goes Foreign) trip has been going for several years and each time we try to include some challenging and educational sailing. Mostly, these challenges involve interesting access to Breton harbours, overnight crossings of the English Channel or handling headlands and tidal races.
With COVID-19 restrictions and new rules governing access to French ports dissuading us from those, the 2021 FOGOF trip was planned for the only ‘foreign’ place obviously within reach.
SEA LEGS BACK
The Bailiwick of Guernsey opened up for visiting yachts on 1 July so, along with four other boats from Cornwall, we decided, my Beneteau Oceanis 381, had been at sea for over two weeks, initially heading west with several days in the Isles of Scilly. We had enjoyed some fantastic sailing weather, got our sea legs back and had felt a very welcome sense of freedom after a long year under restrictions.
