Camaret-sur-Mer

We've been in Camaret-sur-Mer now for a couple of days. We arrived here on Saturday 13th after an almost 24 hour sail from Roscoff. We decided to leave later in the day instead of in the morning because the wind was a bit too rough to our liking earlier in the day. Also, the main reason. We discovered diesel in our oil. Which means we should only barely use our engine (going in and out of the harbor).

Unfortunately, the wind decided to take a nap in the morning. Of course at the same that the current was against us. This caused that we were actually sailing backwards for a while, since we didn't want to use our engine... But! This also meant we could try our fishing gear again, since we normally sail a bit too fast for the fishies (🎶 Always look on the briiight side of life, tuduh tuduh...🎶) When the current turned we started moving forward a bit again. We sailed for as long as we could into the harbor on our jib. Just in time for the Quatorze de Juillet celebrations and fireworks which we watched from our VIP spot: our bed.

Back to our engine challenges. After talking to Andre, our engine angel, we were pretty sure that the issue should be caused by the fuel lift pump (pumps the diesel from our tanks into the engine). We were able to sent a new pump to La Poste (post office) here in Camaret-sur-Mer. After a few days of not being sure if our package was going to be delivered we decided to just go to La Poste and the part had arrived!

On the first day of project fuel lift pump we were able to replace the old fuel lift pump with the new. Of course it didn't work on the first try , but mission succesful! On day 2 we were able to bleed the egine and replace the oil. To celebrate we spend the rest of the day at the beach. We could finally really relax at this great vacation spot since we were finally able to get peace of mind now that project fuel lift pump seems to have been fixed.

Now that the engine seems to be working again, we will be looking for a good window (3-4 days) to cross the Bay of Biscay from here. From then on, we'll be in Spain!Read more