Thursday 8 September
Thursday turns out to be a good day for the street market in the Place du Théatre, where the Mate sourced a punnet of wonderful fraises des bois – normal-sized strawberries with the intense flavour of tiny wild ones, heavenly with fresh raspberries. After coffee and croissants in the sunshine, the crew returned to make me ready for a cross-Channel passage the following day. Converting me from a floating caravan to a sea-worthy yacht always takes them some time, as everything must be stowed in its proper place, secured and made ready for easy access whilst underway. Once the wind eased, Skipper shinned up the mast to replace the radar reflector. He had to relocate it higher when he fitted the radar unit, which needed to sit where he’d originally mounted the reflector.