Probably that I suffer of too much liking pubs and restaurants, and seeing what life is like away from home !

Patrick, the link between extended anchoring and enjoying pubs and restaurants is a reliable dinghy.

Patrick, the cheapest marina fees are at anchor!  That is how we have always held our Kiwi junkets, and we get together on each other's boats, not in expensive bars and restaurants ashore.  The biggest boat (Paradox!!!) gets to be host and we all bring food and drinks to share.  This way the boats are altogether and we can sail in company to another anchorage, should we wish, which makes for great photo opportunities.

Hello Éric, I would have been happy to see you more than the little I crossed Ming Ming's wake before the grande parade.

The heavy organisation of "la semaine du golfe" is too much for me, I didn't like the program they imposed us two years ago. This year I preferred to sail solo, between Houat and Belle-Île. Between Sauzon and la Teignouse, 5.6 knots average on a beam reach ! Not bad for my little Circé.

I'm more interested in small junket, with just junk amateurs.It would be a pleasure to meet again Patrick, Richard, you and anyone else next time !

Cordialement,

Thomas

Eric, I am so sorry that you were the only junk in Morbihan, after all the work you have put into trying to persuade some junkies to turn up.  It was ever thus, I'm afrad: people talk the talk but they don't walk the walk and those of us who have organised junkets get used to being frustrated and disappointed with the outcomes.  I'm afraid I've simply given up.

I enjoyed  the write-up of your new sail and look forward to reading an account in the magazine, when you sail up to Scotland.

We're registered, but not with a junk...

Shearwater