St.Vaast Rally — 29 May '08

29 May –01 June

St Vaast never fails to please. A delightful little fishing port, it looks good, feels good and smells good. And the oysters are especially good!

Proposed Itinerary

Thursday 29th May
Champagne and Cocktails on Arrival

Friday 30th May
The day is yours to explore the surroundings - visit the beach or the Cider Museum at Valognes. Alternatively fill up with wine at the Etablissement Gosselin
In the evening there will be a superb dinner at Les Fuchsias at the Hotel de France.

Saturday 31st May
A visit to the local street market in the morning is a must. It has a marvellous selection of goodies on sale from clothes to cheese and charcuterie and other local food.

In the afternoon there will be a wine tasting session and a talk by Monsieur Gosselin.

Sunday 1st June
Return to the UK or otherwise.

Booking Information

Please use this email link to let Jonathan Beeston, the Sailing Secretary know you are planning to attend:

sailsec@royalthames.com

Additional Information

It is neap tides, so should be an easy trip across, but when navigating over from the West Solent still keep offshore from the race off Barfleur, i.e. don't turn the corner too quickly unless it is slack water. Also try and have some south going tide down the East side of the peninsular, between Barfleur and St.Vaast. It can run quite strongly against you there.

St. Vaast is 72 NM from the Needles and 71 NM from the Nab. With a SW breeze it is often a reach there and back.

You can easily anchor off if you arrive early or late for the lock gate, so long as the wind is not strong from the East to South.

The lock gates are open very approximately (all FST)

These times are convenient and the implication is that some people can arrive on the Friday afternoon, but we still reccomend taking a longer period on the trip and enjoying being there.

Further information can be found at http://www.saint-vaast-reville.com/en-GB/index.html