a nice bay an hour north of Douglas. In the bay there were 2 visitors moorings and we tied up to one of them Unfortunately it turned out to be an impossible place to stay. We woke up early and the boat was rolling hard from incoming swell - and checking the water depth it had dropped to less than 3 meters and it was still coming down. We talked to Douglas Harbour office and they directed us to a mooring at the outer harbour visitors pontoon. We arrived there and went back to sleep
In the afternoon we went for a walk into town, had some lunch and went to the inner harbour master to pay the harbourfee. As we had arrived in the morning and was sailing late evening - there was no charge :)
We cast off at 2300 Friday for the sail down to Conwy Bay in Wales. We will go to Deganwy Marina on the east side of Conwy Bay.
The crossing was uneventfull - quite a lot of shipping traffic in/out of Liverpool. But with good AIS transponder and radar navigation is very safe.
We arrived the fairwaybuoy on time to get us up and into Deganwy in time for HW.
The channel up there is very shallow and dries at low tide.
We docked just after midday Saturday the 3rd.
Later that day we were joined by Geir's old radiofriend David/G4OGW and his lovely wife Patricia,
or Pat. It had been more than 20 years since we last met - and they had drove all the way up
from their home south of Hereford. A short drink to say hello turned out to be an all night with fun a laughter.
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