Destination Info

To help you make the most out of your time in the various destination here’s a little useful background and a few helpful links... more to come too!

Dartmouth

Well known to regular JOGgers, Dartmouth is a lovely destination with good restaurants, art galleries and even a steam train! The designated watering hole as usual will be the Royal Dart Yacht Club.

Dartmouth

From Dartmouth we will head off to St Quay Portrieux on the Brittany coast. We plan to start this leg at about midday (TBC), so crews should be well rested from leg one.

St Quay Portrieux

Many of you will already be familiar with the marina in St Quay as it was until recently the only all-tide marina along that stretch of the French coast. Weather permitting the fleet should arrive in St Quay on the Tuesday morning. The marina in St Quay is big but has good facilities and the marina staff were very welcoming when Tim Corner went to meet them on a recce trip recently. We should have a section of pontoon reserved for our use so that we can easily organize our own pontoon party.

St Quay Portrieux Marina

There are restaurants in the marina itself. We are currently looking at the possibility of reserving a dining room in one of these restaurants so that the fleet can eat together (this will still function like a restaurant except the other people in the room will likely be JOG sailors).

From St Quay we have a relatively short race to St Cast.

This should start late morning on the Wednesday and arrive in St Cast on the Wednesday late afternoon. This leg is about thirty miles. From St Quay, as you approach St Cast you will pass Fort de Latte an imposing stucture, no doubt built to deter “les anglais”. As you approach St Cast the finish line will be a bearing on Les Bardinots buoy, which you will leave to starboard before entering the marina at St Cast ….

St Cast

The town of St Cast is a charming but low-key French seaside resort with several bars, restaurants a supermarket and wine shop.

JOG Week 2014 St Cast Fort

The marina at St Cast is very new having opened in 2009. St Cast recently won a “Marina of the Year” award in a French sailing magazine. Still St Cast isn't only about a smart shower block fortunately. The marina has an easy buoyed entrance (but watch out for the lobster pots if you stray from the buoyed channel) and modern pontoons well suited to the typical JOG yacht.

JOG Week 14 St Cast Marina

There are three restaurant/bars overlooking the marina, and a “depot de pain” for those of you who like to start the day with a croissant and a chunk of baguette. There are also a couple of chandleries close to the marina.

The beach is about a ten minutes walk along the newly built promenade and the town centre is about fifteen minutes from the marina.

JOG Week 2014 St Cast beach

We will spend two nights in St Cast. You'd complain if we didn't do. Really.

From St Cast we will race to St Peter Port, departing on Friday morning arriving in St Peter Port (weather permitting …..) on Friday evening.

St Peter Port

Again well known to regular JOGgers St Peter Port is host to a heap of great restaurants, and the bus ride around the island is well worth the jaunt for a different perspectives on all those rocks we are usually trying to avoid!

St Peter Port

We will be organizing a prize giving party in St Peter Port midday on Saturday.

The tides will be good for a early evening departure across the channel for those heading back to the Solent.

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