STILL IN DINGLE

26^th May - Dingle

We had a lovely evening in Dingle, we booked into a local restuarnt called The Boat Yard

and the meal was really lovely. We then went around the town, and found a pub with Irish Music and wi.fi. So I could send the blog, and look up the weather. A really good evening.

We had done all the homework to go to Fenit Marina, which was 61 miles going outside Blasket Sound. We decided to see what the sea state was like when we got there as to whether we went through the sound or not. It was a SW wind which makes a change.

8am was a good time to leave to get the tidal flow correct at Blasket Sound.

We got up in the morning at 6am and listened to the weather at 7am. There was another small craft warning, with Gales coming in this evening. As we were not due to get to Finit Marina until 20.00hrs, this was not good news.

We have decided to stay another day, it maybe two.

We may have to miss Fenit Marina and make for Kilrush later in the week.

27^th May

The weather report was spot on, and at about 6 oclock in the evening the wind started to build.

The fishing fleet all came in and tied up – this is the usual sign of bad weather.

This is the second gale we have had in a week How much more bad weather are we going to get?.

We had put more ropes on and stayed on the yacht for the evening.

Another 2 yachts come in they had an awful journey from Sneem, and were glad to be in. They are from Penzance, are on their way to Scotland..

We had gone to bed, and at about 2 oclock we were all awake with the wind howling and we were a bit worried about the ropes, we were on a reasonably sheltered pontoon, but it was horrible.

After checking everything we all went back to sleep.

Waking the next morning wind had dropped and had turned NW. Again!!!!!!!!!!!

There are more gales forecast.!!!!!!!!!!