Midnight Sun III Story - Time in France
We purchased a new Lagoon 40 Catamaran in La Rochelle France and brought her back to the USA. We have chronicled our trip in this series of videos.
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well we finally make our way to France

it ready to take delivery of midnight

sun 3 we flew to France ta P Airlines

which allows dogs on

is our first apartment we stated there

in Lera shall fall most always enjoyed

the town of the Flower Show

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the old towns wonderful feeling about it

the surrounding area has many things to

see it was a really super place to stay

although we were there longer than we

really anticipated

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the old harbor had a wonderful feel

about it we spent many evenings

wandering up and down the harbor front

finding a few price bars and just

generally enjoying the area

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we saw numerous boats being launched

our favorite bar McNulty's Irish

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La Rochelle is definitely a sailing town

they have every kind of boat you'd

imagine from old to new to race boats

and here we found some traditional cargo

transportation

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some kind of a sailing cargo ship came

in we think from the Caribbean bringing

rum we are not sure

there are two yacht clubs in La Rochelle

the classic Yacht Club which was we

never found that open well we were there

and there's a modern sailing school in

Yacht Club

this is the second department we stayed

in as we had to extend our stay a little

longer than we thought

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we do the arms upon and as you check it

off

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and finally we find midnight sun 3 hole

number 45 left it up with lagoon 45 and

climb on board and take our first look

around

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then you spent several days reading on

whether windows a few minor as warranty

work etc we also had to make a trip to

Mojave to the port where our pallet was

transported to because our pallet was

being held in customs we had to apply

for and receive in person a temporary

importation permit before the pallet

would be released

while we were in La Rochelle we met our

good friends

Annie Dyke and Phillip Warren also from

Pensacola Annie Dyke has written several

books about sailing and they were

helping some friends relocate her

brand-new Lagoon 42 from LA from La

Rochelle out to the Virgin Islands they

actually left just a little head of us

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just going out

and finally we get to go on our first C

trial actually our only C trial before

we left the weather didn't cooperate for

additional C trials but everything

seemed to go

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and finally we're sailing and she seemed

to perform really well

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