What Exactly constitutes an Epic?

The Summer Epic Cruise is progressing  very much as expected.

After a slow and sometimes rough start  with the excellent company of Al, we eventually made it (sodden with spray and rain) to L’Aberwrac’h .  .

Our  next stop was St Evette  after a near epic  from L’Abers.  Nice overnight  stop on a mooring buoy, then a modest epic down to Sauzon  on Belle Isle ..  this trip qualified for epic status on the basis of being a very long way.  Wobbly night at Sauzon attached to another mooring buoy  and then on to Pornichet (non-epic trip  only 35  miles  but  near-epic manoeuvres in marina  with much traffic on hot  Sunday  afternoon).

Successfully met up with Mark and Gill in Pornichet, re-fuelled and re-provisioned (how do you spell  “vital” as in food?)

Next  morning off to Noirmoutier where we anchored and swam  and enjoyed a lovely hot afternoon .. swimming involved  having  someone constantly on Jelly-watch  as we spotted a big one when we anchored.  No jellies attacked however and fortunately none tried coming up the pipe to the loo either .. also no crocs or alligators either.

Yesterday set off again, this time for Joinville on Isle de Yeu.  Should have been an easy  (non-epic) voyage  but had a minor  thunder storm  en route.  Fortunately we noticed other boats dropping sails and stuff before  the  hot air  (amazing hot blast F6) followed by rain and colder wind hit us.  We also followed a bigger boat  closely in the hope that any lightening  would prefer his much taller mast.

Today  .. a day off in Joinville  .. went running  (short, but quite pleasant, remarkably)  .. lunch on the boat,  nice walk to the cliffs and 15^th century  castle etc.