Following an already eventful summer cruise to Brittany, our return Channel crossing suddenly became a lot more challenging.
We’ve been sailing our 34ft yacht, for 8 years. We generally only sail as a couple and limit ourselves to day passages, with the Channel crossing being one of the longest we’ve undertaken. We started our cruise heading west from Plymouth to Falmouth, and then we crossed the Channel to Roscoff, in order to clear customs at a French Port of Entry. We then headed west along the Brittany coast round Finisterre, passing through the Chenal du Four and Raz de Sein, with our southernmost point being Concarneau. From there we headed a few miles Falmouth offshore to the Isles de Glénan, which we
