sahona wrote:Wish we'd known you were in the vicinity earlier Ian. We went Troon -Douglas on the Sunday, having discarded Saturday 6th as a bad idea...
Super sunshine, loud bikes, but no castrol R , seems they don't use that any more. so we had to sniff a different niff that I'm not familiar with. I think I've become a paradigm.
On the way back we had planned to stop in Portpatrick but decided to carry on back to Troon when the weather forecast came in.
Those perpetually anchored ships are right on the rhum line and at 0300, just a nuisance. We arrived back in Troon at 0400 to discover someone had parked in our berth!!
One thing you might have missed by leaving early was Hillier on a supercharged Kwakker noting 218Mph as he did a special lap -and that wasn't the top speed logged digitally..
Lovely place ,weather,people - worth going back - but those fekkin overfalls above Ayres Point -- another story!
My trip from Peel up to Portpatrick on Wed consisted of 4s and 5s right on the nose. I tacked all the way over to Ireland, Lovely looking place Ballywater is, considered going to Bangor but with wind and tide against me I decided to head for PP. Lovely sunny day but after using up all my good tide I was left fighting against it all the way to PP. Thurs from PP up to Millport was outstanding
Still surprised I heard you on the radio On Mon. I was about 10-15 miles north of Peel and you must have been in Douglas. I think you were onto Belfast CG. You were very clear. Any explanations from a radio guru?
only 2 boats in Portpatrick, both called Shearwater!!!
Peel harbour. A beautiful place with very friendly and helpful staff.
nice pic of Paddy's Milestane.
Beautiful day up the kyles on Fri
