Draft
Still pics to be added if the computer can recover the corrupt camera disk with my hi-res pics on, fortunately most stuff to Kerkwall and from Eriboll are either OK or backed up to the lap top.
The wind was forecast to be a fresh southerly on Sunday which could make most of the anchorages south of here uncomfortable, so I was considering staying in Lerwick for another day but when I woke there was virtually no wind so I decided to make a quick dash for one of the best anchorages in a southerly, the Bay of Fladdabister and hopefully get there before the wind increased, alas that didn’t work and by the time I was out of the harbour I had 14 knots on the nose and a choppy sea. It was not a big problem, just a bit chilly and slower than hoped and I was at anchor by 08:30.
The anchorage is rather damned by faint praise in the pilot as “rather featureless” but it looks OK to me. There is more motion than I would like in a F4 southerly but not excessive, just not somewhere to ride out a southerly gale and exposed to the east.
Intentions.
I will position further south in lighter winds on Monday for the dash to Orkney on Tuesday, I
don’t know where I will end up, the most likely possibilities are:
- Eastern Orkney, Stronsay or a bit further SW, then through the islands and Eynehallow to Stromness on Wednesday and Thursday, Eriboll on Friday or preferably Saturday if the wind is as per the ECMWF. The (spring) tides favour this.
- Pierowall, NW Orkney, then a couple of days moving south, then either direct to Eriboll or via Stromness. Tides are more of an issue with this option.
I’ll have to decide which of the above before I clear
Sumburgh Rost as one route goes north of Fair Isle and the other south
Going direct to Eriboll is possible but a very long haul
particularly if the wind is light. Pierowell direct to Eriboll is also a
possibility but tides are again an issue and it is two long legs in succession.
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| 6 NM in an hour and three-quarters. |
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