Leaving Chinook and heading back to Canada - 49° 38' 27" N 01° 37' 00" E
Yep, you read correctly. Our plans have changed, as plans often do and our 2024 is looking somewhat different from what we wrote in a previous post - A Rough Plan for 2024 . Chinook will be left safe and sound at Port Chantereyne Marina - with her Garcia friends! We still plan to head to the UK and Ireland after Easter and will spend until mid-June cruising around, exploring the area and putting Chinook through her paces. Our plan is to sail to Alderney, just off the coast of Normandy, on Easter Monday or Tuesday. It is a short hop but has some major tides that can run up to 10kn so we need to time our departure well. We bough the "Aurigny' courtesy flag from the local chandlers We will then cross the English Channel to Portsmouth and work our way west along the coast of England to Wales and Scotland before heading south along the eastern Irish coast. We need to be back in Cherbourg by mid-June for the 3-month warranty check and to catch our flights back to Canada. ...