One of the best things about boating is the people that you meet. In Rouen we moored next to Jean-Pierre & Françoise on their beautiful steel boat ‘Maloya’. The last leg of the trip down the Seine involves a ten hour journey with the last hour being at sea. Unfortunately, there is nowhere to moor your boat during the trip so if you have a problem then you would have to try and drop anchor – not a good thing to do in a busy river. Also, predicting what the sea state is going to be like by the time you finally get there is difficult. We were therefore grateful to Jean-Pierre when he offered to travel with us down stream to Le Havre. They had lived on board Maloya for a number of years so they were both well equipped and skilled at reading the weather from a number of sources. Using information gathered from a variety of web sites he predicted, correctly, that Friday would be the best day to go. He timed the tides to perfection and the journey proved to be both relaxing, and economical with the diesel, by making best use of the tides.
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