French Leave
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- Taking a British cruising dinghy to French maritime festivals and small boat rallies
Links
The Dinghy Cruising Companion
www.amazon.co.uk/Dinghy-Cruis...
The Dinghy Cruising Association:
dinghycruising.org.uk/ - ภาพยนตร์และแอนิเมชัน
"It's just like England, only warmer with French restaurants."
"There is nothing - absolutely nothing - half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats".
This is southern Brittany. Sailing to the Golfe du Morbihan in a yacht is at least a 3-day passage from the south coast of England. Everyone I know who owns a yacht based on the south coast has never been there - including the skipper of a 50ft charter yacht. The western Channel crossing alone is 90 miles - some 36 hrs. (I know it well, as I have done it many times in larger sailing vessels). So no - I towed my dinghy there behind my car and took her in the ferry. That made it a 4hr drive from my home (2hrs in England 2hrs in France) and an overnight ferry. That is why I can sail in southern Brittany and my yacht-owning friends can't.
South Brittany and the Golfe are wonderful and you have brought back many memories with a great video. I have been crossing the Channel for the past 35 years and attended my first festival in ’82 and the the first one in Douarnenez in ’88. They and Brittany never fail to bring surprises, new friends and catch up with old ones over the years. There are so many places to visit which are no crowded unlike those on the Channel Coast. Thank you for the memories.
I love your way of reasoning and being economical by owning a modest Dingy which is a home from home once you have got to wherever by road sea or ferry.
I was going to ask. Thank you.
Absolutely!
Beautiful video, Roger! Thank you so much for sharing such wonderful experiences with all of us!
That is terrific! I hope the little families are teaching the children to sail like this. Outstanding way to preserve a culture and way of being. Viva Brettons and Voyagers!
I have now watched four or five of your videos. I have long forgotten how much I loved my introduction to sailing and how I felt like I had belonged to the process. I remember "FEELING the water and the Wind and somehow instinctively knowing which way the wind was going to change. My professional life moved me quickly through life here and there and I never got back to it. The Simplicity of it and you capture it and communicate it so very well in these videos. The good and the challenging but the memories.....Oh, the memories. I am from the USA and spent 20 plus years overseas. I would love to re-learn-learn the skills again and enjoy the simplicity your videos show. I'm inspired to rejoin the world this way. Thank you.
A fantastic advert for small boat cruising and France -- thanks Roger.
You are doing what I wanted to do for 20 years! Excellent videos.
Just realised I've been denying my real ME
Another inspirational video. Thank you Roger. Another visit to Brittany calls.
You conjure great memories: cruising the GP-14 as a kid, and reading "To Brittany in Brynhild" by Uffa Fox when I was a teenager.
My little boat is a Westerly Nomad 1969, 22ft, with bilge keels and tan sails. I couldn't agree more that France is wonderful for cruising. I've always sailed across from Brightlingsea. The boat is in Toulon, south of France right now but she's coming back to the UK through the canal du Midi early next summer. The Nomad is not a boat that you would refer to as some sort boat to impress or as one American put it - 'she is not exactly gorgeousness compared' but she has a solid roof over one's head, masses of room inside and a very shallow draught. So, you might say, she falls into a category not quite so easily definable. Super videos, well done.
I think the Westerly 22 and Nomad have lovely curving lines, very strongly built, and have taken ocean voyages. I have a Westerly Warwick, also a very good little cruiser. But the Nomad, with the Gunter rig makes it much easier to lower the short mast for inshore, river and canal exploration.
Don't knock the Nomad, she's a great boat!
Thank you for your great videos.
Great Video Rodger. You are such an encourager. More please.
Very nice. Thank you. I love the idea of small boat cruising.
Rodger you have really inspired alot of people both young and old to get dinghy sailing. Really looking forward to your next video!
thank you so much Roger, a different world from our local marinas in Ontario. an inspiration to us all at the can-am dinghy cruising group on yahoo.
Okay, you've convinced me. You really had to wring my arm there. Great video.
Really enjoy your videos Roger, some wonderful places to visit.
My boat is called French Leave! It is an écume de mer 26. Just found your channel and this video popped up, how lovely!
Beautiful work Sir. That soft footed lug sail sure is an easy rig to set. You don't seem to ship an outboard ' iron top-gallant', that's proper old school seamanship - by tide, sail and sweeps alone. Bravo.
wonderful channel. I have had quite a few different boats but I have never looked at such small boats for spending the night on them. Now I'm in love. Thank you.
Ps. It's a piano - it lifts a person literally above the ground, a wonderful piece of music.
Lovely video and I agree. We went to Le Semaine du Golfe in our Memory 19 and it was absolutely wonderful. The event is incredibly well organised and the French hospitality to small boat sailors is legendary. Next time we will go and explore Brittany for a month.
I enjoy all your videos, this one though, I enjoy above all. Dinghy sailing!!!
Thank you
Beautiful video
See also this video: th-cam.com/video/8EZcMd31QOY/w-d-xo.html
Thank you Roger. In Winter we dream and we wait the next springtime
I know I'm a year late I just found your channel and Love it . I have a 17 foot day sailing ⛵ Day sailor when I finish working on it I plan on sailing ⛵ from Tampa bay Florida to the US Virgin Islands and South America. After hurricane season 2019
Very cool video!!
I love your videos! Sure wish I could get my crab skiff across the big pond from Canada to explore the coast of my (French) ancestors...
Thanks Rodger, i really enjoyed this video , great photography and storytelling. I bought your book last Christmas and and hope to kit my Meginjolle with some of your ideas so as to enjoy some longer coastal cruises through the Finish archipelago. Fair winds !
Thanks Gavin! I hope you have some great sails! Roger
thanks for this video.
Greetings,, Kitty.
You have a fan in the mountains of Tennessee.
My new obsession and I don’t even own a boat. Thanks Roger.
Once again a beautiful video and again you harken me back to my days at sea. I would love to find a cruiser dinghy like yours or near the size of yours, but here in the US, they are not easy to find. I've been looking now (without a broker) and short of building one myself, I don't know. We have a lot of water ways but our Marina's are of a much richer bent than what I'm observing for your in Europe, especially in the UK and France. Would love to spend some time in that region sailing in a Dinghy. I recently bought your book, bit of a palava trying to get it here to the US, but it appears I'll be successful. Looking forward to reading and getting lost in it. I appreciate your videos and the dreams its currently creating for me. Thank you.
Lovely video as always and I think I should take your advice!
Ahoy Roger, Do keep up the vids as they keep us land lorn sailors in better spirits as we wait to weigh away. I share your philosophy, small boat big pleasure. I've a Dufour 24 boeyed in Saint Marine in the bay of the Odet river, in Britanny. Built a dory to use as a tender, a bit impratical for the sharp currents. I hope to coastal cruise as the 80 cm. bulb keel should allow me a great amount of flexabillity even to go up shallow estuarys. Avel Mad's her name ,fair winds in Breton to ya mate. David Askew
I like! Keep it up!
A beautiful video! We would love to participate in such an event... alas, Clarisa would first have to cross the Atlantic. I'm afraid her skipper would not be up to that task. So instead we'll head to the Small Reach Regatta in Maine (a mere 14 hour drive away from home port) where we expect to see two other Ilurs along with about 60 other small wooden sail & oar boats.
Nice video, as usual, Thank you Roger. Southern Brittany is a pure treasure. I can see a Walker log holder on the rail of your dinghy, do you use it at time?
Looking at the shore a lot of it reminds me of Carrick Roads in Cornwall, so to me it would mean just like Carrick Roads but more of it and warmer!
How are you able to sit in the bottom of the boat, I have just started sailing in a Wayfarer on a lake and have to lean out over the edge all the time. You look so relaxed when you sail, which I am not. Great channel.
I love your videos Roger, and am gradually sailing and fixing a 60s GP14; the thing is though, what is that mellow piano jazz at the beginning?
Dangerous advice surely Roger, advising the British to come to France with all that that entails. Nice people like yourself, alone in open boats, sure...but bear in mind that your channel is watched by all types of British people!
Fabulous
Roger. Yet another relaxing video chilling out after another hectic day. Please can you tell me the title of the music you used in this episode, it is driving me mad thinking of what it is called. Can you please give me the detail. Thanks again for an enjoyable watch. Paul 👍👍
Good stuff Roger, great videos. Can I respectfully suggest that you omit the music, even though it does come only in short and quite tasteful bursts? The background sound will do just fine. After all, it's an integral part of the pleasure, as I am sure you would agree.
Classic quote of the video: "It's like England, except warmer. And with French restaurants"! Who needs any more reasons?
Roger,
I think going to France is a rather good idea. May I ask, how do you attach yard to mast on your boat? I have been told that a square lashing is the best but would like to hear your opinion.
Do you sail in the dinghy to France or get a ferry and haul everything that way? Looks so cool .
Nice relaxing video. I presume you didn't sail across so where did your French cruise begin and end? I'd love to do something like this but doubt if I could persuade my wife, she's risk averse.
you are so lucky.Not much here in Australia
I just came across your videos. They are so pleasant, informative, relaxing, and well done. I'm an American solo canoeist. A 1927 National Geographic magazine contains an article by two Americans who took a canoe down the Canal du Midi. They used a tent over their canoe, much like yours. I was taken by the article, and when I saw your video, with you "camping" on the Thames, was reminded of the article, and inspired.
What is the lovely music at the opening of your video? Thank you.
Lots of people ask about the music and I always have to say I don’t know! It’s just from iMovie.
Vive la France !
Have you a video on getting to the French festivals? I made enquiries with the ferry companies and was quoted over £1000 for my camper van with trailer, it would be cheaper to sail across!
Love your videos Roger. How do you keep her dry when beating in a chop? She must take a fair bit of water over the weather bow.
She sails fairly dry actually. I rarely wear waterproofs unless in heavy rain.
French leave? Where do they go?
Did you sail there across the channel?
Your thumbnail for this video looks like a Monet.
Thanks for another great video Roger. Just out of interest, what route do you take to get to France and how do you know its safe in your dinghy??
He replied up above he took his boat on the trailer in tow and he drove through France to get to his sailing destination.
这条船太棒了，驾驶她的人一定是一位勇敢的船长
Very symatic video :-)
Roger, can you please tell me what are the lines running out from the tiller?
Huntingford Helm Impeder, look it up :-)
Lovely boat, lovely videos. A calming influence to offset the insane dissolution of democracy in the USA
The Charmed Life of Mr. Barnes.
I have been patiently waiting for your next video and it was wonderfull. Can you get by sailing there if you don't have much French language?
Loved your book.
Thanks
It helps to know French of course, but you can certainly sail in France without French. The charts have the same symbols as in the uk (so the abbreviations are in English) and English language pilot books are available. The coastguard can be contacted by VHF in English.
Colin Northcott, Back in the 1960s I did a Vaundaunch- Grape picking, In Brittany, I had come across from Jersey, Channel Islands, With little more than some Jersey patwa. The Bretons were wonderfull, And extremely helpful, The Alyed invasion was still fresh in their minds. Onglartair, Bon- Wee.
Conveyed lovely Roger. What is that little yawl at 4:13 mark?
Is a half size replica of a Yole de Bantry.
I am not a yachtsman or a sailor, but would like to get involved, deck hand or such. How do we get connected, what time of year and who would I contact.
Is there dinghy cruising in the US?
Indeed, I want to come…..and purchase a boat while I am in Europe. Can you mention some online sites where small boats are listed for sale? I want a vessel of a suitable size to cruise along the Northern shore of the Mediterranean. All the online brokers I could find feature very large, very expensive yachts, But I am looking for a boat more like those in the French Challenge.
Thanks for any help you can give.
Have you ever fished on a cruise Roger?
Where some of these boats François Vivier designed? They where all very beautiful.
Hindukush1234 propbably 2/3 of them are Vivier designs.
Roger Barnes I just purchased my first wooden boat. I bought from a gentelman who built a CLC Northeaster Dory. I brought it home but have not sailed it yet. I am repairing a trailer for it. I can say this your video series inspired me to purchase this open dingy boat. Thanks and keep posting!!
Rodger would you please do a video showing how you lash the helm! From 7.00 minutes in.
Hi Mr M
I think Roger uses a Huntingford Helm Impeder - try a web search and you'll find excellent instructions how to make your own on the Dinghy Cruising Association website.
hi Roger just wondering if because a boat has a half cabin (Hartley 16) , does that still make it a dinghy cruiser or not.
Jayce
The Dinghy Cruising Association has some members who use boats with foredecks and some with small cuddies. You could look up "dinghy" in a dictionary, but that would be the wrong approach, because "dinghy cruising" is not just about dictionary definitions. Dinghy cruising is about having fun and adventures in small, mainly open, boats. It's about using the boat to explore, get away from it all, making the most of the boat you have, rather than spending the most money on your boat. It's about what you enjoy doing rather than what you enjoy being seen doing. I've looked at some pictures of the Hartley 16 and it looks like it sails like a dinghy (crew hanging out to balance the boat), everyone grinning with joy, rather than posing with a Pimms, and I think it would be regarded as a "dinghy with a lid". Enjoy your boat.
Hi roger I am almost convinced towards a dinghy, but say you have been out in a heavy shower, what do you do when all the woodwork is wet regarding sleeping overnight. Thanks for great videos.
I put up the tent as early as possible and let things dry out. Cooking helps as it creates heat.
I would love to take a sailing vacation on this coast, but alas! I live far in land in Canada. Is there any possibility of renting a small sailboat for a week or so in Brittany?
Canada has coasts and rivers, and you have Quebec!
There is a sailing group with which you can do courses, called Glenans.
So Rodger, another good video but you say you are remarkably free to go where you will in a Dinghy, but are you really? So do you need a Passport, boat registration, VHF licence, insurance etc etc? You should do a video on the necessary items you need to really be free in a Dinghy. If i bought a 2nd hamd Dinghy and just sailed to France i could end up in a whole world of trouble and probably lose the boat ive just bought aswell.
May i ask if what is the pupose of those tiny strings hanging in the sail? Style?
Glad they look stylish. But they are also needed for reefing.
I love your videos (just discovered them) and am binge watching tonight, lol. I just ordered a copy of your dinghy cruising book. What length and model is your boat? I am a lifelong sailor/boat builder. My first boat was built at age fifteen ( a wood 'Sunfish' replica) my second was a 'Wayfarer' type built in highschool. I currently own a Columbia 28MkII and a 20' O'day overnighter. I am thinking of building something very similar to your boat (love the looks of it and I am getting to old to handle large boats alone).........Gary in Michigan U.S.A. (on the Great Lakes).
highwatercircutrider - she's a 15ft dinghy called an Ilur, designed by François Vivier - who has a website in English.
Do you think plans might be purchased? If you ever get the time I would love to see some still photos of her (profile & sailplan, stern & bow views, maybe a deck shot). I would love to know more of her history in particular, her age and how you came to own her (maybe this is a video in and of itself, you can tell I have not read your book yet, lol)........Gary
www.vivierboats.com/en/product/classic-ilur/
See the website of Francois Vivier: vivierboats.com/albumsen/Sail%20and%20oar/Ilur/index.html
Thank you, I just checked his site out.
Why does a dinghy not capsize under sail...there is no keel, as in a yacht?
That is also my question!
Roger, do you know what the red and the white boats at 2:42 are? They're kind of racy-looking.
Sorry Sir, we have nothing comparable here in central europe, we can only be jealouse and watch your videos
Just a piece of unsolicited advice for future videos: If it's a choice between silence and the stock music clips provided with iMovie, always choose silence.
Look at that pre-covid world.
oh for a bottle of le blanche ermine
There is nothing more beguiling than Guten Morgen Ich möchte einen Garantieanspruch für ein Messer mit gebrochener Klinge geltend machen. Sagen Sie mir bitte, wie ich dabei vorgehen soll. Vielen Danka flotilla of dinghys under sail.
I also derive great amusement from the thought of so many arses lowered over so many transoms and all the cheery turds bobbing along behind!
Toilets are provided all around the French coast.
@@RogerRoving I am still skeptical that if say 4 miles out with an off-shore wind to contend with that I would be able to hold on to my bowels whilst tacking back for the facilities. No! I would strip off, lower myself into the briny and expel the matter whilst frogging frantically to avoid a mix-up. If the water were too cold for such an endeavour, then a pan from the galley box would do, or perhaps a bucket brought along specifically for that eventuality.
У вас никогда не шормит , штоли ?
'French' leave, Roger? Brezhoneg, surely?
Fascinating! What is the kind of sail rig on your dingy called? I now next to nothing about sailing! But it looks great.. Thanks for such lovely videos! Best regards. Johann Mendelsöhn. South Africa
Someone called it a lug sail rig
French boat festivals don’t seem to popular with the brothers.