Still here in St Malo, the weather is great! We swim before breakfast, have coffee, look at the shops and then go to the beach in the afternoon, swim a bit more, have a drink on the way back to Rowena, then tea, then bed, its a hard life But it will all be changing soon and we will be back on the high sea to Jersey.

We or rather the skipper decided against Isle Chausey when he realised that on Thursday the tide is the second biggest this year, a coefficient of 112 if any one is interested, basically the difference between low and high tide is 12m, so if we have to anchor we would have to put an extra 12m of chain out on top of the 3 times whatever depth we are anchored in, so too much stress I think, and too much chain!

Yesterday a man came and said he needed to take on water and the marina people had told him to come along side us to do it. Ok we said. It turns out his boat, from Guernsey, is a boat he designed himself based on grandbanks because that is what he used to own, but this boat is made of steel in Holland, inside it looks very like a grandbanks, but outside, even though he has got the top deck and rear deck something looks a bit funny, not quite right, the boat weighs 45 tonne!

He used to live in Hong Kong and saw grandbanks being built there! Apparently they made 1400 wooden grandbanks then changed to fibreglass, Rowena is number 46!.