Wednesday 1st October
Sunday, left the berth at Glenarm at 0400 in order to catch enough north going tide to get through the North Channel before it turned. Leaving in pitch dark made it tricky avoiding the fish farm that occupies a large part of Glenarm Bay. With a F4 SW to W wind I was doing average 6kts with tide and…
Friday 26th September
Thursday, I depart Peel at first light in order to have a chance of reaching Glenarm by early evening, before dark and the tide turning. Forecast is a F4 from SE and soon after leaving harbour I pick up the breeze on a dead run. Once clear of Isle of Man the sea starts to build as…
Thursday 25th September
Sunday, arrived at Porthmadog slip at 1600 to be faced with severe current past SO on her mooring just below the bridge. I reached the boat with the dinghy by paddling upstream close on the town side then drifting down with the current. However the dinghy got tangled between the stern of SO and the mooring buoy…
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