LAZY SUNDAY MORNING - after an overnight in the dinghy

This video is in English, but French subtitles are available. Bonjour les francophones ! Il y a des sous-titres français sur cette vidéo. In this video, I sail out of the port of Douarnenez, where I live, and go a little way down the bay to find a sheltered anchorage for a quiet night afloat. Or rather, to an anchorage I thought would be sheltered. Actually it proved to be rather open to the swell, which makes the evening rather noisy and rolly. Fortunately it is calmer the next morning, and I pass my time cooking and eating and wandering around on the rocky shoreline, as well as reading the Sunday papers on my iPad. While I am out sailing, the COP27 Climate Conference is in session at Sharm el-Sheikh in Egypt, and this issue dominates the news. The damage being caused to natural ecosystems by the global warming being caused by human green house gas emissions concerns everyone who enjoys the natural environment. This is now established science and should be uncontroversial. It affects us all, and I discuss my feelings about this. https://unfccc.int/cop27 INTERESTED IN DINGHY CRUISING? Read my book, "The Dinghy Cruising Companion" - second edition out NOW! https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/dinghy-... And join the Dinghy Cruising Association: http://dinghycruising.org.uk/ MUSIC Lone traveler - Gabriel Lewis Footprints in the Sand - Roots and Recognition featuring Melanie Bell both from Epidemic Sound https://www.epidemicsound.com AVEL DRO Do you want a boat like mine? Avel Dro is an Ilur designed by François Vivier, and built of clinker plywood by Les Charpentiers Reunis of Cancale in 1994. I bought her in France in 2003 to import her into the UK, and more recently returned her to France again before trade restrictions were imposed.* The design is based closely on the traditional inshore fishing boats of Brittany in the early years of the twentieth century – hence her simple boom-less lugsail rig and lack of a mainsheet horse, (sometimes controversial among my viewers). Although rare in Britain, Ilurs are relatively common in France. Modern Ilurs are however slightly different internally from mine, as they have more built in buoyancy. The name Avel Dro is Breton, and basically means a whirlwind. Length 4.44 m Sail area 12.2 m² Beam 1.70 m Draught 0.25 / 0.86 m Design category C3 François Vivier's website (in English): http://www.vivierboats.com/en/ Similar dinghies can often be found for sale on the website of the French magazine Le Chasse-Marée: https://www.chasse-maree.com/revue/ Or try Le Bon Coin, (where you can buy anything in France): https://www.leboncoin.fr *Since January 2021, Great Britain (but not Northern Ireland) residents who buy a boat in France or elsewhere in the EU, with the intention of importing it into the UK, must pay VAT and other duties on the import. This is due to Brexit: sorry.