Glenarm to Carlingford Lough
Purple Mist
Skipper: Kate Cope
Mon 12 May 2025 16:36
Day 5: Glenarm to Carlingford Lough. 04:15 wake up for a 5am start for the long leg (78NM) to Carlingford Lough. We used the first of the daylight to exit the small marina and watched the sunrise over the mull of Galloway.
It seemed like the tide was with us all day , an expected back eddy for the first 2 hours then 6 hrs of favourable tide and again mostly back eddy at the end. It’s important to enter Carlingford Loughs narrow entrance at slack water and due to all the favourable tides we were an hour and a half early. How bad can the last 90mins of ebbing tide be I thought …well answer is 4kts bad ! Luckily Exehibitionist has a chunky engine and once the pump is primed ( yes it didn’t again) she is perfectly capable of punching a lot of tide.
