"However, our decision to stay was coloured by multiple comments of serious exposure to Winter storms, so when the recent spell of fair weather arrived we jumped at the chance to head a little further east…"
These are words from the end of last year's Blog – sometimes decisions are made for you and sometimes it is only with hindsight you know you made the right choice; the picture taken at Portland on that post is the exact spot where the beach was ripped apart by this year's Winter storms and Arbalest would have been exposed to it all just a few hundred metres to the East! Yarmouth has been a good resting place for the Winter and thanks to all the guys at The River Yar Boatyard for all their work and assistance during our lay-up.
Currently, as one of our sister boats [Adamastor] prepares for a weather window to head across the South Pacific and our Canadian aquaintances Larry & Mary Anne [TraversayIII] prepare for a North Pacific circuit, we have more modest plans for 2014.
After some essential, though cosmetic, structural work our plans are to head South starting in Northern France, along the coast via The Channel Islands, around the Brest Peninsula and then see where the mood takes us. We're in no rush but hopefully we will see some sunshine this year along with some much-missed warmth! This year is going to be very different.
