Explore Sailing Voyages in Isle of Man 🇮🇲

Good breeze one tack all the way hard on the windy lumpy bumpy wet arrived and on a Holyhead sailing club mooring bouy

Left the anchorage at 5:30 and headed south straight to Holyhead. Had to tack around the skerries but a very nice sail in to Holyhead.

Left Carrickfergus at 6:30am and left the channel under motor. Headed through the Donaghadee channel and then set a course for the calf of man. Long crossing with some really changeable conditions, no wind and then 25 knots close hauled. Rounded the calf of man with the tide against us and were very tempted to just head straight for Holyhead overnight but the wind was a little too much to be comfortable. Rounded the bottom of the Isle of Man and grabbed a mooring buoy in Port St Mary. Another early start tomorrow to Holyhead!

Left Peel aiming for Portaferry but soon realised we couldn’t make the course and it would have taken us hours and hours to get there so we changed our mind and headed to a sheltered anchorage just behind the Mull of Galway Lighthouse. Force 6-7 with squalls and rain. Swell was between 2-3m.

Left Deganwy around 0530 and headed straight for the IOM wind was a little off at first, slightly off where the forecast was saying so we had to head slightly more north. As we got in to the middle of the channel a fair swell picked up but it soon dropped as we got closer to the IOM. Rounded chicken rock and the calf of man and then a nice slow passage up to Peel as we couldn’t get in to the marina until 1853. Evening in Peel and a few Guinness.