leg 18 Holyhead to Douglas Isle of man

Holyhead to Douglas Isle of Man

On my return to the boat after a few days at home. I am raring to get going. Scotland is almost within eyesight!! Its doubly good because my daughter has a holiday which co-insided with my return to Holyhead so she is going to accompany me for the next two legs and we will arrive in our first port in Scotland together. Fantastic. It will be really good to have someone to talk to and share the experience and the workload with. She achieved her RYA Competent crew certificate in Spain in 2009 so should be a great companion for these two very long legs.

Great Help!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

At least we made excellent progress, We left at 3:00am to catch the tides and new it would be a very long day….. for some………………

Good days sailing though we had some pretty nice weather followed by some pretty ugly weather, dreary and drab.

It eats and breaths!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Coming in to Douglas Isle of Man

Isle of Man was very interesting although we only stayed overnight on the floating pontoon in the harbour entrance. We did manage to have dinner ashore before returning to the boat as we had another 3:00am start and many miles to cover.

‘O’ yes ‘it’ did finally do something!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!