Holyhead to Bangor NI

Mark Rosenthal

Monday June 6th 2023 Al and I met up and moved Flair IV from her mooring to the one remaining hOlyhead Marina pontoon to load up and take off surplus equipment. The other members off the crew, Helen and Tess arrived around 19:00 to sort out remaining food requirements before shopping. Al and I fixed all but one of the new LED lights in the saloon, the heads and the forward and aft berths. A beautiful evening as we sat in the late evening sunshine eating dinner in the cockpit. Day 1 Alarms set for 05:30 to get away from the pontoons at 06:00. Unlike the forecast we had quite strong Easterly winds as we departed under motor to the harbour entrance where we hoisted the sails and turned north. Wind speeds of 20 gusting 25 gave us boat speeds of 8plus knots heading up the west of the skerries. We ran a 1hr on 3 hours off schedule Mark, Helen, Alan and Tess.This changed a little as we had dinner now 20:40 Alan on the autopilot. We arrived at Bangor bay and anchored up at around 23:15. A long but productive day.