Crossing the Channel was great and less rolling than we had anticipated, up at 5.00 AM and off into the dark following coordinates on the GPS and buoy to buoy to buoy.
Sid plotting our course
Sunrise in the middle of the ocean
Full engine revs and making 7 - 8 knots against the tide, calm at first then an area of long low swell on the starboard beam - hold on!! After dodging the container ships in the shipping lanes we could smell the tar of the petrochemical plants on the way into Dunkerque. Through Trystram lock and into the vastness of Dunkerque port. Darse 1 here we come. It all turned out less stressful than we anticipated, mind you Sid did find us our two day window of calm weather.
Margaret and Sid in Trystram lock
Good news it's the way to arrive in a country. Not one official seen or talked to. So no requests for any personal documentation or any aspect about Soraya. Time for the bar................ (Grimbergen or 3) Both quite exhausted as this has been a long time in the making.
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