Summary: A quick final sail round Belfast Lough and then back into Bangor marina. 5.9 miles in 1hr 55 minutes. After filling up with fuel and gas and pumping out the holding tank, we popped out today for a quick sail. In the sunshine, Belfast Lough was beautiful and though …
We have come back to the boat after heading home to go to the Olympic Park to watch the hockey and have decided to use the boat as a base for a week or two to explore Northern Ireland. We have hired a car and plan to head off in …
Summary: Ardglass to Bangor. 38.7 miles in 7 hours and 35 minutes. A lovely sail past Strangford Lough and into Belfast Lough through Donaghadee Sound and past Copeland Island. A strange thing happened today – a golden orb mysteriously appeared in the sky. Some online research confirmed that it was …
Summary: Howth to Ardglass. From Ireland into Northern Ireland. 57.7 miles in 10 hours and 30 minutes. A slow plod, motorsailing all the way as the wind was pretty much from dead ahead. We left Howth after a grotty night at around 5am and in fairly grey weather bounced our …
Summary: A short trip from Dun Laoghaire to Howth. 11.7 miles in 2 hours and 45 minutes. Fairly grey and damp day, but we managed a short time actually sailing for a change. George arrived last night and we decided to try to move on a little. However, the forecast …
Summary: Milford Haven to Dun Laoghaire. 114.6 miles in 22 hours and 5 minutes. An unremarkable passage with relatively little wind. We did manage to sail for a few hours, but ended up motoring for the vast majority of the passage with too little wind to sail. We left Milford …
Summary: Falmouth to Neyland Marina in Milford Haven. 172.3 miles in 25 hours. Wind from more or less ahead nearly all the way, so a quite a bit of motorsailing, but managed to sail around half the passage. Weather – generally grey and murky with Wind mainly from NW/W 4-5. …
Summary: Mylor to Falmouth Visitors Yacht Haven. Moved round to the main Falmouth Yacht Haven – the stunningly long distance of 3.8 miles in 1 hour, most of which was spent gilling around trying to find a berth. The forecast still had gale warnings for all sea areas, so for …
Summary: Mylor to Truro River and back. Anchored for the night up the Truro River just beyond the King Harry Ferry. Once anchored found we had engine cooling problems, so spent evening trying to sort them. Next morning headed off back towards Falmouth, but after 20 minutes found the cooling …
Summary: Fowey to Mylor (Falmouth Harbour). 27.4 miles in 3 hours and 45 minutes. A short trip along a lovely coast and for a change in sunshine. A reasonable breeze got up, but from more or less dead ahead so we motorsailed with main only. We left Fowey at just …