Not sure why the brain does it, but it happens every time. Whenever you have a day off, you end up staying up late and getting nothing done. Whether it’s a Friday night or here on the water, it’s the same thing. It didn’t make it any easier that it Read more…
Wind in the bay but none where we need to go, so just a day chilling in the sun. Joe had his first foiling lesson but sadly the wind died before he had a proper shot at it. And we all tried foil wakeboarding, with Jeremy winning the prize for Read more…
During this trip we’ve found that there are different levels of “light wind”. There’s the type of wind where the flags don’t even move, which you won’t get out of bed for. That teaser wind which you can hear the flags flap, and the wind whip through the window but Read more…
Yesterday we checked the point at the tip of the bay twice for wind in hopes of getting to the north of the island. But twice we had to turn back having been deceived by the funnelling affect we were experiencing in the bay as the wind was squeezed up Read more…
With all those tastings yesterday, 23 in all, there were a few sore heads in the morning. But when there’s wind we have to use it. So around 08:30 poor Jeff got kicked off the boat to go fend for himself. We at least fed him breakfast before we left; Read more…
Towards the end of yesterday we could see in the distance, next to the two large “paps” of Jura, one of the most anticipated stops of our trip – Islay. With a high-pressure system approaching we knew today would be our last chance to reach it before the wind died. Read more…
The alarm was set for 05:00 this morning in hopes there would be wind with the tide. However we didn’t even need to get out of bed to realise there wouldn’t be enough. Probably a good thing as we’d been up the night before watching the England game. Seven o’clock Read more…
Coming out of the harbour this morning I thought we might have to abandon for the day. The swell had built over night and Mentor was rolling around almost uncomfortably. Usually I have enough time to do the porridge dishes and turn the wet suits right side out before we Read more…
Learning from the past two days, we got up early today so we had the tide with us around Wicklow Head. As you can see from the tidal map below, in this area we can have up to 3.9 knots of tide, if we’re going 6 knots through the water, Read more…
The forecast for today was not good, showing 5-6 knots all day. So we turned off our alarm clocks and treating ourselves to a long lie in (it is Saturday after all), and a full Irish fried breakfast. The around Ireland regatta was setting off at 14:00 further north in Read more…