Traseu de navigație blând spre Mediterana

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1. You probably know this, but upstream from Lézardrieux is the most wonderful river trip up to Pontrieux. The one bridge to pass under is given as 18 metres. Often have to wait for tide at Roche Jagu. Lock just before Pontrieux.

2. Can't really emphasize enough the importance of proper passage planning when sailing around Brittany. It is beautiful but quite intimidating and very unforgiving. Plan arrival in daylight an hopefully in good weather and visibility, keep track of your location and headings. I know modern chart plotters make this rather easy now but skirting ile de Brehat on a foul night with your nearest and dearest might not be fun for all.

3. Spain have currently (March 2021) decided not to recognise any RYA qualifications including ICC if through RYA.
   I feel this is both inconvenient as well as short sighted.

4. Great, really nice overview, without the usual doom and drama.

5. On Noble Dosser we did roughly that trip starting from Edinburgh in 2006. So thank you for reminding us of all the lovely places, the bits to be careful going round and the whole fantastic journey. We did it in sections – overwintering in the old harbour of La Rochelle, La Coruna and also Seville. Although this was at a slow pace we got to enjoy the country and the countryside. Particularly along the north coast of Spain. Sometimes even, we felt we were rushing it and would love to go back and do it again. I wish we had had your book back then but there we are. So good luck with the book and am sure you will have inspired many to give it a go.

6. Great info many thanks 🙏

7. Thank you Michael, wonderfully informative, I've just ordered your book. Glad I have discovered this channel, you have lot of knowledge to share.

8. Another great informative video. Thank you.

9. Hi Michael. Thanks for your guides. We took your advice and made our way to the Med, where we are now currently living on our boat. It took us two years instead of one (we hadn't planned on a plague or the joys of Brexit) but we made it and are readying ourselves for the next part of our voyage. I really enjoy your relaxed and informed way of giving advice.

10. I liked the way you deliver the information well done 👍

11. Excellent. When will you do a guide cruising north to Norway Finland etc cheers !!!

12. I have just downloaded the Mediterranean Routes book. I'm looking into getting a boat and do the circumnavigation, but since the starting point would be Cyprus, I would like first to get my initiation in the Mediterranean first , starting with the Greek Islands and then go further. I found particularly useful the videos related to OpenCPN. It is a wonder of a software and I find it amazing that companies like Garmin and Raymarine charge a hand and a leg for their maps/charts. I'm looking forward for your next videos. I am so happy that you are sharing your knowledge, I am following a lot of YT channels on sailing, but you are the very few that share facts and not idle words. Thank you once again!

13. Looks a great way to spend the summer with family. We have two young children & this is a dream for us hopefully make it a reality in the next few years. Thank you

14. Hello from Belgium, we are pleased to find your video which are very educational on the waters of south england we hear the issues but never the details that bring it to life. Even with 2,000 miles in 2020 for Rival 36 delivery to portugal your trip to cross the channel was more challenging. Well done.

15. Thanks for the link to your book. My boat delivery with owner, so 2 hand sailing took 3weeks and 3 days. We cut the corner from Ile Belle to Gion, spain due to Orca attacks in September 2020,

16. Love your way of storytelling-explaining! Really informative and entertaining at the same time 🙂

17. Is it possible to buy a copy of the booklet that you are referring to? I have searched online but can't find it?

18. Very good advice, but believe me you will need quite a bit of sailing experience to do this safely.

19. A very nice presentation. 40 years ago I made the passage with my father down to La Coruna from Portsmouth to Alderney then around Uissant and across the Bay of Biscay. It was a formative moment in my growing up. My father back then navigated old school taking sights and astro navigation. He learned to navigate in the Merchant Navy and was a very accomplished seaman. He taught me a fair amount although now with modern electronic plotters it has taken a lot of the donkey work out of navigation and definitely a sense of struggle and then achievement of reaching a destination port. He was very wary of the Bay of Biscay. He would often tell me horrendous stories of vessels getting into difficulties or being lost and wrecked there as when the weather turns in the Bay it can be foul, you can end up being trapped for days and pushed into the west coast of France it being a lee shore. 

    But you are right the northern Spanish coast is very beautiful. It was practically deserted in the early mid 1980s when I used to sail with him there. Sadly he passed away about 4 years ago but I still have his boats a Carter and a much smaller Achilles fin keel 8m. Watching your videos bring back very fond memories of happier times. Thank you very much of making your videos.

20. BRILLIANT information. Husband sailed to Rochforte from Ireland helping a friend who was moving his yacht to rochforte.
    We as a family got to Brest in 2011 from Malahide Dublin Ireland..
    Looking forward to getting sailing again. Launch next week please God

21. excellent video

22. great video, thank you so much. what type of skill/experience do you think this requires? and what about the boat, would a w33 do the job? thank you

23. I don’t even sail, just love the idea of this. Thank you so much for this beautiful video.

24. Excellent – I will by the book !

25. Thank you very much for all your wonderful videos – long may you produce them to help educate other less seasoned sailors on every corner of the Caribbean, Mediterranean and points in between.

26. Is there a possibility, to buy this as a hard or stencil copy ?

27. I've just watched this video and thoroughly enjoyed it. Very pertinent to me as I am planning to sail down to the Med with my wife, who has given me two rules: (1) no sailing at night, and (2) no sailing in rough weather. Hence, although I've sailed across Biscay before, this option is not available to me and your video was right on target for me. I will be buying your book. Thanks very much.

28. Thank you for sharing your details this was a great pleasure and help

29. Best sailing channel by far, no women to add colour just sail talk. If he starts doing these in a bikini ill stop watching.

30. Porto is famous for its PORT WINE Michael, not sherry. We'll put it down to first night nerves, (21.03mins).

31. You are so lucky to enjoy boat life, it seams just a dream to me, eg got no idea of how to make it happen

32. Hi Michael, thank you for the in-depth and invaluable information. Moving my boat from Liverpool down to La Rochelle Easter 23 for a permanent residence whilst looking at buying a second home in France. Just bought the Mediterranean sailing guide as a useful reference for the trip. Keep up the good work.

33. Thanks for that. Very interesting and informative. I'm on the other side of the world in Australia and a now 70y.o. dreamer but one never knows. Nice to know this info is there to take to take some of the mystique away for those of us used to our own waters.
    Cheers.

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