In the lock. Hurrah!

Wow, what a town and what an experience. Most days have seen throngs of people pass through the village. We’ve been busy with a lot of small, nice-to-do boat jobs and handing out boat postcards to the kids who stop by the wall above the boat.

We’ve spent years following the Vendée Globe and it was a real thrill when Rich Wilson stopped by the boat to say hi.

We had one last training day before the Route du Rhum. It was great to get both spinnakers out with the new tack zips and work through maneuvers one more time. It was even better for Polkadot (Alex Mehran, USA154) to be out as well. Here are some of Alex’s drone shots while we both had the fractional spinnakers:

We had a blast on the delivery to St. Malo with 30-40 kts to start.