Again no wind and chilly with sea fret but warm at times, the wind came up twice but then disappeared within 10 minutes of setting sail and it increased a third time a mile from the anchorage.
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| On the last three passages across the northern entrance to Dublin Bay I have had to avoid this ferry. |
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| The Skerries from the anchorage where there was a nice spot well separated from the surrounding moorings. |
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| 45 miles in nine and a half hours |
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| A very large seal in the middle of the harbour entrance. |
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| The narrow channel into the marina, the white marker in the picture of the seal is shown as a yellow pillar on the chart. The snapshot was taken as I write with the wind F6 in the shelter of the harbour. It is rather bumpy so I hope the wind dies soon. |
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| The narrow channel into the marina, between the red (port hand) and green (starboard hand) lateral buoys,. |
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| Approaching low tide. |
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| Ardglass is a pleasant stop off point with decent showers, local shops etc., but its a pity they can't keep the visitors pontoon clean; the other pontoons and the long walkways in the pic above are very clean. |
Monday was forecast to be blustery and very wet, that was not wrong, as I write it has been raining since late morning and the wind is about F6, as forecast in the lunch time inshore forecast. Aware that this was likely I had the boat refuelled very early.
The wind should die out this evening, the rain may hang around through tomorrow morning but, unless things change, I will be off at about 07:00 for Browns Bay to hopefully get across the North Channel before the wind turns northerly late on Friday or Saturday, unfortunately I suspect there will be more motoring required to get there. Once across I will have a lot more flexibility to make relatively short hops under sail as anchorages with good shelter are relatively plentiful.
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