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An account of a circumnavigation of Ireland during August 2009 based on the ship's log of the passage. The author and her husband set off from Milford Haven in the 38' Nademia to sail clockwise around Ireland - hoping to find some fine weather somewhere on passage, but instead enduring squally conditions for much of the time during this year's notoriously disappointing summer. Photographs of the anchorages and harbours visited.
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Sailing Round Ireland 2009 - Carolyn Roberts
Sailing Round Ireland 2009
A Circumnavigation of Ireland during August 2009
Carolyn Roberts
9781447606697_0003_001SAILING ROUND IRELAND 2009
The barbeque summer
promised by the weather forecasters in April had still not materialised by the end of July, when we planned to begin our circumnavigation of Ireland, but we were hopeful that the weather would improve during August. However, as we packed our bags the forecast for early August was still dire, with a series of Atlantic lows tracking NE over the country as the jet stream remained unseasonably south of the UK.
When we arrived at Milford Marina at 1pm on 31 July to prepare the boat it immediately started to rain, and the weather overnight was atrocious – strong winds and torrential rain. It finally cleared at about 5 am on 1 August, and later in the day we set off from Milford Haven to anchor overnight in Dale, as the forecast was for the SW winds to back southerly for a time on 2 August. We planned an early start to make the most of the more favourable wind direction.
Our plan was to circumnavigate Ireland in a clockwise direction. We expected to have to beat our way west against the prevailing winds as far as Baltimore, but hoped that once we had turned the south west corner of Ireland we would have following winds up the West Coast, and maybe by the time we reached the north coast a summer anticyclone would move in at last over the UK, giving us north westerlies down the Irish Sea. That was our hope!
9781447606697_0005_001MILFORD HAVEN TO KINSALE.(143 M)
We raised anchor at 0500 on 2 August and set sail for Ireland. The wind was forecast SW backing S, F5/6. We motored for a few hours until clear of the Smalls, by which time the wind had backed to the south and we could sail, from about 1000 – 1800, in F4/5. Then the wind began to increase quite rapidly, and by 2100, just as daylight was beginning to fade, it reached F6/7 with gusts of 33 – 36 knots. It was very uncomfortable, with lumpy seas
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