Port St Mary to Bangor NI

Port St Mary is always a nice stop over - provided you don't moor onto a fishing boat as they leave at 4.am. We were lucky as we found a space on the wall by a ladder so had a peacful night. The next stage was to go through Calf Sound as the tide stream turned North and then sail over to Bangor Northern Ireland. The Forcast was for a North Westerly so we knew we'd be beating but the forcast also said it would be turning Westerly later. That suited us - or so we thought.  We beat up the West Side of the Isle of Man in fairly bouncy, cold and wet conditions and the Westerly never came. Well it did make an appearance just as we turned West into Belfast Lough this was now not very helpful.  The journey took about 14hrs.
A slight mishap with the water tank meant that a pipe came off dumping our fresh water into the bilge. Easily repaired in Bangor NI after a very large cooked breakfast.

Port St Mary

Light variable winds are forcast for Sunday so I think we'll have a day off here - looks a nice place and the people are great.

Irish Sea Shower