Monday 29th May

Anyone want to buy a boat?

We left Pwllheli around 7am to go through Bardsey Sound at slack water (11:30). We had a really lovely sail with an easterly wind, until it died as we were going through the Sound.

The wind came back, but from the north this time! We had 15 miles of wind against tide with the wind steadily increasing. Swift II recorded gusts of 32 knots, which was nothing like the easterly 6 to 8 knots that had been predicted.

We furled the headsails and continued with just the mainsail to steady us. After a while, the main was just flogging so we took it down. We still had 11 miles to go!

We eventually arrived at the entrance to the Menai Strait around 18:30, by which time the tide had turned against us. We entered Caernarfon Harbour at approx 20:30, very wet and very cold!

We met up with the skipper of another boat that had gone through Bardsey Sound at the same time as us and he had also expected easterly winds all day!

I'm looking forward to Tony building a motor boat!