No wind, very hot again and once more had to motor all the way - will need an oil change if this goes on.
The tide was predicted to be generally against us, south to North, for most of the trip, but picked up two back eddies suggested by Andy. One, not shown in the tidal atlas, ran down the East coast of Guernsey from St. Peter Port to the SE corner of the island. The other ran at up to 2.7 knots down the west coast of Jersey from Grosnez Point to Corbiere, agaist the general stream.
Slightly further on the chart but saved a lot of time, very useful this local knowledge.
Saw a small black dolphin mid way across and a pod of six or more very large, light
brown dolphins just of Portelet Bay. They were performing but did not come over to the boat. I call them dolphins but they could be Porpoise, I don't know the difference.
Arrived in Jersey well ahead of the racers ( most had given up and motored so as not to miss the evening party) and managed to grab the last alongside berth in the marina. After this any visitor had to raft up and the place was crammed with racing yachts with little water visible. Spot Sarah Jane in the photo.
Many racers appear to be a peculiar unique breed - cruising sailors with all manners and etiquette sqeezed out.
One boat rafted alongside us and the whole crew of 7 walked across our cabin top, when I was standing there without a word spoken. They left early next morning and another racer ( Mustard M*t* from RCIYC ) came alongside. Again, not a single word was uttered by the three elderly crew. A "good morning" from me received no response.
One for Andy. Whist we were on the entry waiting pontoon in St Helier a BS F/man in the 2nd boat out wanted to leave. The 2 boats either side of his were unmanned, so he just cast the outside 3 boats off. His response to being told he was "B***** stupid" was, "yes I am crazy at times".
Met Peter and Rosemary Kendall from "Perodena",fellow Mylor YC members in the Marina. They are now on their way back to Mylor after a few weeks in Brittany.
On Sunday we cycled over to St. Aubin for a cup of tea and snack. Finished up having Sunday lunch at Royal Channel Island Yacht Club on the side of the harbour there.
Surrounding were very comfortable with magnificant veiws over St Aubin's bay,
food was excellent at low YC prices. Needed the ride back to St Helier to partly work off the lunch.
Back at the marina all the racers and many of the other boats have now left and there are plenty of free berths although it filled up a little on the evening high tide opening.
While in Jersey we met two other MYC menbers, Brian and Glen Reeve-Fowkes on their beautiful Broadblue38 catamaran "Friendship", also on their way out to Brittany. We then went back aboard what seemed for a time a very cramped "Sarah Jane".
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