Photo: Andia / Alamy. The bay is not deeply indented and the Atlantic swell, which never seems to give up, somehow finds a way in. If there was any, we’d see it breaking in there. Sailing directions, pilotage, charts, photos, marine businesses plus local marina/mooring prices. Register Log In Divorcebusting.com Forums Surviving the Big D From Ushant to Scilly 'tis thirty-five leagues: Forums Active Threads Forum Help: Previous Thread: Next Thread : Print Thread: Re: From Ushant to Scilly 'tis thirty-five leagues #2860996 08/11/19 07:14 PM 08/11/19 07:14 PM: Joined: Apr 2016 Posts: 3,428 Canada. Out of the blackness a breaking crest makes itself known with an alien glow of tumbled phosphorescence and roars past.…, For many skippers wishing to sail between the Atlantic and the Mediterranean, it’s necessary to go via the Strait of…. It often does. Misery! No harbourmaster’s runner came out to demand money with menaces, leaving us with extra cash to fritter away foolishly ashore, had the opportunity presented itself. An hour later we were sailing at an improbable SOG across the seaward end of the Chenal de la Helle. Latest news headlines for today. ( Log Out /  From Ushant to Scilly is thirty-five leagues The Scillies are the most southern point in the UK. A radical course alteration did the trick. It’s performed by the Robert Shaw Chorale named after Robert Shaw who is not this Robert Shaw, who played Quint in Jaws (1976) and sang a version, exposing my generation to the tune. Intermittently, over the lives of four editions, I tried to reach Ushant and was consistently beaten by the weather. The problem was – and still is – to choose a day with settled conditions and not much in the way of swell. From Ushant to Scilly is thirty-five leagues. Even Russia fell to him, but only for the notorious Russian winter. Spanish Ladies features a hidden tragedy, one that is either expressed ironically or cynically, often within the same context. Rounding the reef’s buoy on an easy broad reach the GPS indicated a ground speed of 8.5 knots. The streets are quaint and, as we strolled uphill, those enclosed gardens not yet abandoned to dereliction overflowed with spring flowers. “The same again tomorrow” sounded as good as life was likely to get, but the wind was fair and that big tide was calling us on to Ushant. First published in the June 2019 edition of Yachting World. Because immigration was problematic. …We’ll drink and be jolly and drown melancholy…. The English crown didn’t have much in the way of an army to fight the French directly, but they had a spectacular navy. The first was that a whopping big spring rise promised serious streams out there in bandit country. The moorings are fine in good weather, but until recently they were too close together. Before Hitler had his moment as megalomaniac-blitzkrieg-rockstar-of-the-week and before the sun set for the last time on English soil, Monsieur Bonaparte had his way with anyone he pleased and their little sister too. The Chenal is a high road now with yachts of all nations sailing the summer seas in peace and friendship, heedless of the ghosts of Nelson’s frigates, prowling endlessly to and fro, watching the semaphores flash out their messages and sniffing into the mouth of the Rade de Brest to check how many of Napoleon’s ships had crossed their yards for the sea. Ushant to Scilly. * The video suggests this is a Royal Navy version. Create a free website or blog at WordPress.com. This is rural Brittany for real. Originally Posted by Ginger1Don’t settle for a life to have a body there. It is often so crowded in season that the authorities have the brass neck to offer berths to visitors outside the wall, then charge full whack for the privilege of bouncing around all night if the wind goes north-westerly. But what a reward there is... ‘Qui voit Ouessant boit son sang.’ In plain English, this old Breton sailors’ proverb reads: ‘He who sees Ushant sups his own blood.’ Many a seaman would be inclined to agree, certainly from the days of sail when Ushant represented the final obstacle to be weathered to beat clear of the Channel, or the last tide-swept headland to round before the cliffs of England came up in the morning. It’s not. en A few months after, for Ushant, the Breton admiral Herve de Primoguet attacked with twenty ships an English fleet four times more: first shock it ran three English ships, but it is surrounded soon by higher forces, and its vessel the Beautifulone is sifted balls, is démâté, and tightened closely by the Regent, vessel of the English admiral. Spanish Ladies chronicles the journey back to the English Channel. ‡ Different versions suggest the distance to be thirty-four or even forty five leagues. As to the second, I was lying to a plum berth and having a thoroughly good time. Posted by on steelers rumors 2020. As is expected, it’s been revised and re-purposed countless times, sometimes even losing the bit about Spain and ladies or even sailing. “From Ushant to Scilly is thirty-five leagues” The Isles of Scilly are the northernmost boundary of the Western Approaches of the English Channel. en (b) the English Channel and its approaches eastwards of a line drawn 50 nautical miles to the west of a line joining the Scilly Isles and Ushant. Update: There’s a difference between terrestrial leagues and nautical leagues (just as there’s a difference between common and nautical miles). And then Napoleon went all Napoleon everyone’s mustachioed butt-faces.†. Sixty nautical miles or twenty leagues is … From Ushant to Scilly is thirty-five leagues. Am C Em The first land we sighted was called the Dodman, Am C G Next Rame Head off Plymouth, Start, Portland then Wight; Am G C Em We sailed on by Beachy, by Fairley and Dover, F Em Am Em Am And then we bore up for the South Foreland light. As a statesman, Napoleon’s contributions were notable. As far up as one can go, just below the road bridge at Paluden, a small sailing club maintains one or two moorings available to visitors. It’s 32 miles from Paluden to Lampaul. Its diminutive nature reflects the general fact that fishing from here must have been a non-starter before reliable inboard engines. And while I have you here, what is wrong with the internet that I can’t simply get the distance between two geographic locations? We can't let the crew in on the fact that you really do have a sense of humour, no matter the great pains you take to conceal it." Lampaul village centre on Ushant. Leaving the Petit Pot de Beurre beacon to starboard I eyeballed the boulder-strewn Passe de la Malouine for swell. At the head of the bay we found a few moorings and, heaven be praised, a free one. So daunting was the coast of Ushant that it was years before Tom Cunliffe dared stop there. That is something to mourn. As it was observed by the crown, there were plenty of unruly waves still to be ruled, and English people to be kept free, and Navy life wasn’t just a thing you do before going to college. And they weren’t allowed to take wives, children and lovers with them. Stupid internet.). But we hope in a short time to see you again / And we fear we are never to see you again.**. As has been tradition and typical of sailors at a port o’ call, the English intermingled with the Spanish. Farewell and adieu to you ladies of Spain Two hours drifting down the river would see us off Libenter, the big cardinal buoy at sea off the entrance. 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