Murphy left Plymouth at 19:52 (note patriotic start-time in honour of Diamond Jubilee - not sure whether we can manage to arrive at 20:12!) on Sunday 3rd with both a Plan A and a Plan B (apologies to George Osbourne). Plan A was to head to the outside (Western) edge of the Ushant Traffic Separation Zone, refresh our weather forecast and then, if all was well, head as fast as possible towards La Coruña on the North Coast of Spain, trying to beat the horrible Low steaming into the Bay of Biscay from the West. As soon as we received the new weather forecast it became clear that Plan A was not a goer (too small a window of safety) and so Plan B was enacted - turn left and head into Camaret Sur Mer, opposite Brest.
We arrived after a passage that started rough and ended smooth as silk with almost no wind and we arrived at Port Vauban (Camaret) at 23:20 BST Monday 4th June. We then slept like logs and woke to miserable drizzle, which has now (16:40 local time Tuesday 5th) turned into a pleasant grey fog. We have found Moonstream on a nearby pontoon in the inner harbour and they have kindly invited us to dinner.
So all is well, if not quite what we had intended.
Jeff Taylor has meanwhile flown home for a wedding as we do not really expect to get out of here until Sunday 10th, when we hope he will return.
That's all for now - now where is my sun cream?
ANDREW R J CALVERT