FROM ROSCOFF TO L'ABER BENOIT. 20 MAY

The departure from Roscoff on the Wednesday 20th May was initially quiet. We fuelled up at the fuel pontoon in the marina then casually headed North to round the island of Batz. As we emerged from the shelter of the ferry port which is located beside Roscoff marina we saw the 'Overfalls' extending as far as the eye could see. We decided to continue because there were several other boats in front of us (viewed on the AIS) which meant that it was passable, and the weather was in fact quite reasonable with a steady head wind of about 15 knots.
It turned out to be one of the roughest rounding of a headland that we have experienced so far. The reasons were that there had been some storms the previous days so the swell was high. Then with the tide against wind it resulted in shear pandemonium.
Anyway we survived, and overtook some other yachts as we cruised West to L'Aber Benoit.
This is a river just beside the famous L'Aber Wrach where all the yachts position themselves before rounding the Chenal Du Four further West.
L'Aber Benoit was a bit of a squeeze for the size of our yacht to anchor, so as the night progressed we found a mooring boy and used that for the two nights that we stayed.