www.angleseysailing.co.uk

Skippered Yacht Charters



Tuesday 15 May 2012

New Season

We finally departed our winter refuge in Victoria Dock during the last week in march and made our way up to Port Dinorwic for a wash, scrub and coding survey, before moving on to the Isle of Man for Easter.  Good Friday saw us making the Swellies a little late, but otherwise we made good time and were in Douglas for early evening.  After a minor misunderstanding on the radio between our Ancient Mariner and the harbourmaster we tied up alongside the correct wall to wait for the gate and were in the Marina in time for a quick pint.

Waiting for the tide on Sat morning allowed 2 of the crew to shop for Manx kippers, before we drifted north towards Laxey and then headed south to spend the night in Port St Mary.  It was party night in the sailing club and the pub, but we managed to negotiate the ladder back down to the boat unscathed and departed for Anglesey as soon as the tide would allow.  We made such good time on the journey south that the ebb tide did not have time to take its full effect and we passed just to the east of the Skerries hard on the s'westerly wind and straight into Holyhead, pausing only to let the Jonathan Swift in first.

The following day should have been a charter day, but the wind was less kind than the skipper and the charter was rearranged!