It wasn’t the best summer ever was it? Unless you were lucky, or somewhere several 100 miles distant from our beloved home waters. It actually rained on me in southern Brittany, and blew a real gale! Unprecedented in my experience. I’m tempted to ask the French for my money back.
But I coped and kept smiling, as did the crews of most of the other boats I met, all of us knowing that the secret of surviving the dismal elements is to ensure our own