Slow Passage to Belle Isle, but with Dolphins

After our slow passage to Falmouth we had another slow and tedious
passage heading to France as the forecast northerly 3 to 4 manifested
itself as a SW 1, so a 3 day trip turned into 5 days and we were down to
our reserve fuel.
We spent a whole night watching the lights on Ushant before sacrificing
most of our fuel to get south of the Raz de Seine and most of the way to
Point de Penmarc'h. At that point wind started to build and so we
decided to keep going for Belle Isle and eventually were doing 7+ knots
and had a pod of dolphins come and visit, will try and post the video later.
We are now in the very pretty drying harbour of Sauzon in the northern
end of Belle Isle
Our wind vane steering works very well down to about 2 knots at which
point we have to hand steer so getting our electric autopilot working
has become a higher priority.
On Sunday we cycled round the north end of Belle Isle (in to gale force
winds) and got some more petrol from a garage at La Palais. Having
viewed Le Palais we decided that Sauzon is preferable for us as a place
to moor because we can dry out safely.
Since we have been here the winds have been over force 6 for most of the
time and the seas rough. We are hoping it will moderate in the next day
or so to give us an easy passage towards La Rochelle.