Thursday 26th May
In Travemunde until May 2020
Nick Pochin
Thu 26 May 2011 14:00
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position 58:11N 06:22W Stornoway
We spent two days on a mooring buoy in Plockton
waiting for the gales to pass through. With winds gusting between thirty and 45
knots we managed to re rig the furling line and hoist the genoa and I can think
of worse places to be in such appalling weather Plockton is a very friendly and
picturesque place.On Wednesday we saw a weather window and set off at seven to
cover the 62 n miles to Stornoway.A beam reach in 15 knots took us flying across
to the Outer Hebrides. We rafted up on the North Pier alongside a Canadian Ketch
on it's way to Toronto via Iceland and Greenland. The wind is forcast to turn
south and west and decrease before settling in to the west around twenty knots.
We leave tomorrow for the Faroes and will have 230 n miles to go to Torshavyn
the capital of the Faroe Islands. We will have our first over nighter since
leaving Holyhead.
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