David Rainsbury

Words and Pictures

Date:

May 2008

Kate’s cruise plan, to depart the Menai Strait on 1st June and sail towards Cork, gaining valuable westing for the crossing of Biscay towards La Coruna. This will be my first single-handed Biscay crossing.

Kathy flies to Oporto later in the month and if all goes well Kate and I will be there to meet her. We will spend three weeks exploring the Rias of Galicia before Kathy flies home and I continue eastwards towards Gijon or perhaps as far as Santona before making the passage towards La Rochelle or the Gironde.

This will be an opportunity to visit the French coast south of the Loire and revisit some favourite haunts in Brittany before crossing the Channel towards Portland for a cruise of the West Country.

Almost home, but I want to explore some places in North Devon on the way and though I have seen it in the distance I have never visited the island of Lundy.

Whenever possible I will be updating my web log with Kate’s latest position and news.

Click the links to follow our progress.