MBM's first Cruising Club event of the year to Normandy is now well underway, and you can read all about the trip on our Cruising Club blog .

Keep checking back for daily updates as the fleet takes in such French ports as St Vaast, Carentan and Courseulles-Sur-Mer before turning back for home.

There's just six boats on this intimate trip, after a number of last-minute cancellations, but that should give MBM's skipper Neale lots more time to get to grips with Blue Fin of Portsmouth , the magazine's new Princess 42.