Blind Navigation Up A River In Brittany - Ep. 101 Thula Sailing

No proper charts, 10m tidal levels with super strong currents to watch out for. Silted up river banks. But still a bit of time left before continuing north. Once again our curiousity wins to check out the inner part of Britanny – at least the part that we could reach with Thula! And that was Pontrieux – yeah, we now know why this idyllic town is called the ‘venice of Britanny’.

So what is it like going up a French river with a sailboat to reach the beginning of a fjordlike estuary of the Trieux river? A bit sketchy without having proper charts, navigating pretty much blind. The worst that could happen? Run aground on a silted up river bank. But how to get off that again with us being the only ones around again doing this little river adventure? See what we pay attention for when doing stuff like this.

River adventure, here we come!

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