Arwen's meanderings

Hi everyone and welcome to my dinghy cruising blog about my John Welsford designed 'navigator' named Arwen. Built over three years, Arwen was launched in August 2007. She is a standing lug yawl 14' 6" in length. This blog records our dinghy cruising voyages together around the coastal waters of SW England.
Arwen has an associated YouTube channel so visit www.YouTube.com/c/plymouthwelshboy to find our most recent cruises and click subscribe.
On this blog you will find posts about dinghy cruising locations, accounts of our voyages, maintenance tips and 'How to's' ranging from rigging standing lug sails and building galley boxes to using 'anchor buddies' and creating 'pilotage notes'. I hope you find something that inspires you to get out on the water in your boat. Drop us a comment and happy sailing.
Steve and Arwen

Sunday, 18 May 2014

The facts about La Solitaire du Figaro

The boats
  • identical 33ft Figaro Beneteau 2 yachts
  • length along waterline 10.11m
  • beam 3.43m
  • displacement 3,050 kgs
The race
  • leg 1: Deauville-Plymouth June 8th arriving June 10/11th - distance 484 nautical miles via Wolf Rock and Astan Buoy off Roscoff, Brittany
  • leg 2: Plymouth-Roscoff  departing June 14th; arriving June 17/18th  distance 535 nautical miles via The Fastnet Rock
  • leg 3: Roscoff- Les sables  departing June 22nd  arriving 24/25th June   distance 505 nautical miles
  • leg 4: Les Sables - Cherbourg  depart July 29th  arriving July 1st/2nd   distance 490 nautical miles
More can be found out about the race at
http://translate.google.co.uk/translate?hl=en&sl=fr&u=http://www.lasolitaire.com/&prev=/search%3Fq%3Dthe%2Bsolitaire%2Bdu%2Bfigaro%26sa%3DX%26biw%3D1280%26bih%3D631


 
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