The trip to St Cyprien was pretty straightforward and basically it was a case of following the 20m contour line along all the beaches thronged with people enjoying the sunshine. It is a large Marina with an abundance of mechanical, electrical and all measure of boat services available.

We decided to have our wind instrument checked out, which is either showing incorrect wind direction or cutting out and showing nothing. This problem has been getting worse since we left Scotland, and is not related to having the mast stepped.

A chap from Puig & Files came down onto the boat and the bloody thing was working OK, he was very thorough and checked all the connections etc and reset the unit so it was reading a bit closer to the actual wind direction, and showing the correct wind speed. Bingo we thought and all he would accept was 20 euro’s – really nice helpful human being.