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   goatsarah (goatsarah@thegoatery.dyndns.org)'s status on Wednesday, 13-Aug-2025 16:38:39 JST goatsarah

   Last year Zoe and I commenced operation “Oui Oui Baguette” to move our boat, Scarlet, from Gosport to La Rochelle in France. This was interrupted by a small engine fire which left us stranded in the Brittany port of Quiberon over winter to make repairs.

   Anyway, we moved the boat to La Rochelle a month ago. Today we commence “Operation Churro”. We plan to leave La Rochelle shortly and in a single leg of 36-40 hours in the Bay of Biscay arrive at Hendaye on the French/Spanish border.

   The orcas were attacking boats in this area about a month ago but since then seem to have moved west and are now heading south from Galicia to Lisboa so we should be safe from them (fingers crossed). Weather looks ok. We will probably be motoring for the first part with the hope we can sail from later today.

   If you want to track us, you can follow us live here. marinetraffic.com/en/ais/detai…

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   goatsarah (goatsarah@thegoatery.dyndns.org)'s status on Friday, 19-Jul-2024 10:40:19 JST goatsarah

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   goatsarah (goatsarah@thegoatery.dyndns.org)'s status on Monday, 24-Jun-2024 12:18:48 JST goatsarah

   Good morning from a pre-dawn Gosport Marina where we are about to commence “Operation Oui Oui Baguette”: taking our boat, Scarlet, across the English Channel as the first part of our trip to Portugal. This is the second longest leg of the entire journey, and the first time I will have ever personally sailed out of the sight of land.

   If you want to follow our progress, you can see us on Marine Traffic: marinetraffic.com/en/ais/detai…

   Note, that relies on AIS signals being relayed to the internet. Commercial AIS is powerful enough to be picked up by satellite, but ours isn’t, so there will likely be a dead-zone in the middle where we don’t seem to update.

   It’s going to take about 14 hours to make the crossing. There is no wind, so we will be using our engine.