Guernsey to Jersey

Originally had planned to sail to France from Geurnsey but Pete wanted to see Jersey.  Jersey has a number of attractions but we decided to try to find an anchorage rather than staying in a marina.  The land/sea scape in the area is quite dramatic.  There are treacherous rocks and impressive cliffs which coupled with 7m tidal changes makes for challenging sailing.  We left St.Peterport steering SE towards the NE corner of the island planning bto anchor in Bouley Bay.  When we arrived it was very pleasant but when the wind increased from the NE it became very rough and uncomfortable so we weighed anchor and sailed a few miles further to shelter behind the sea wall in St.Catherine's Bay.  In the morning we moved on to moor on a public mooring buoy at Gorey Castle.  There was a flat sea and we planned to go ashore for 2 hours and then return to the boats and sail on towards Isles Chausey.  The boats were tied up together on one buoy and while ashore the weather turned quite windy and the boats were being severely buffeted by the waves.  We had a frightening ride back in our rubber dinghy and then had to climb aboard what can only be described as a bucking bronco.  Carla and Chris were fantastic getting aboard and then we had to detach the two boats from eachother and motor away.  We decided to sail back to St.Catherines where we assessed the damage.  Carla and Pete had lost a mast head light and a bow light and suffered some damage to the pulpit and we had a bent rail in our pulpit and a bent bottle screw on our starboard inner shroud.