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A shorter passage today. Just 5 miles or so from the entrance to Strangford Lough to Ardglass. After a relaxing morning we caught the start of the ebb tide following a much larger yacht out to sea where we hoisted sail and tacked south to Ardglass. It was still a strong southerly wind but with […]

We had intended to leave at around 03:00 and set the alarm accordingly, but when we woke up the southerly wind was still blowing strongly and it didn’t look very inviting so we went back to bed. The wind was forecast to drop and in the end we left at midday which was a bit

We decided we couldn’t spend another day just hanging around so we caught the train into Belfast. We walked into the city centre and the visitor information centre and picked up maps and suggestions of where to go for coffee. One turned out to be excellent and Richard enjoyed a late breakfast with poached eggs

For some reason we were both really tired after the travelling, even though it was all pretty easy. The first thing we did was buy a new furling line for the genoa as the old one was looking frayed. If the outer sheath comes away from the core there is a danger the furling system

Had a good flight from Belfast City Airport to Southampton and spent a few days at home tidying the garden and catching up on paperwork before heading up to Kingston upon Thames to see our daughter Charlotte, husband Prem and granddaughter Jiya. They are in a new house near Richmond Park where we walked to