Sailing on line

Spent Saturday sailing with Dawn Smith of  www.sailingonline.co We tried to make it over to Porth Madog but, although there was a great F4 from the south, visibility was very poor. This would have made buoy hopping a chore and - more importantly - ruined the approach to PM, which is visually spectacular in even moderate conditions, so we went back to Pwllheli.

Sailing with Dawn is always a pleasure, and there is always something useful to learn and - visitors please note - she brough cakes to the boat.

Howth

The third leg of our cruise to Ireland.

Howth welcomes Annabella with a bit of an awkward landing but a hilarious welcome from marina control. A lovely town and we are looking forward to sampling the Guiness later, just for comparison of course. This Martello tower overlooks the harbour. 

A small courtesy

Just before we set of for Ireland, I popped in the (other) chandlery and bought ourselves a courtesy flag...

As you can see, its the right flag, has a toggle on the top and a loop on the bottom and is made of nice quality fabric. The more observant of you will have guessed that we do not specialise in over large pencils on Annabella. They say civilised life is made up of small courtesies, but I did feel rather embarassed...