Dartmouth to Cherbourg

An eventful trip.
Friday
Left Darthaven marina at 5 am Friday 18th May, and motored into a big big sea with little wind and what there was from 30 to 40 degrees off the bow.
For the first time in years Peter was violently sick for about 3 hours, ( he swears it had nothing to do with the large portion of fish, chips and mushy peas he had the night before!). On we motored sailed playing dodge the freighter through the shipping lanes where we finally got some breeze and could start close reaching under sail. 85 miles on a close reach for 14 hours, not our idea of fun!
To cap it all, we got very strange noises while reversing at Cherbourg marina, and we could see the green polypropylene around the folding prop.
Saturday.
Full English breakfast French style at the marina cafe, followed by a stroll around the old part of Cherbourg and a visit to the abbey. The crew gave Cherbourg a top rating, nice town nice people.
When we returned, the marina captain towed to the fuel pontoon and then to a nice quiet berth where Pete could don wetsuit and snorkelling gear and clear the prop, (2 plus metres of heavy fishing net). He wouldn't take payment for the tow, said it was part of the service! So the marina gets AAA rating.
Currently (5 pm) waiting on the latest weather forecast to decide whether we move on tomorrow. Could be force 7 which means we stay here!
Still unable to import photos from the iPad photos folder to this app called blogspot. Anyone got any ideas?

Location:Cherbourg marina