Bantry Bay to Bangor, Northern Ireland

Route from Bantry Bay to Bangor

We left Lawrence Cove on Sunday the 12th June bound for Bangor in Northern Ireland.
The first day was fine with winds from WSW giving s good speed along the south coast.
We passed many placed we would have liked to visit, but we still had hopes reaching Norway
the June the 24th, so we pushed on. 

Passing north of Fastnet Rock

 

Rounding the SE of Ireland wind died and the current
was against us. We learned that picking the right route and time is vital. We struggeled very hard
to gain speed outside Roslaire in rather shallow water, where the tide ran fast and we had a COG of less that 1 knot.
We may have had less going furter out. But when the tide turned we were blessed with water running north again and we saw 7-8 knots of COG at times. On the last few miles we also had the tide with us giving us a COG of 9-10 knots. We arrived Bangor marina the 15.06.

Aproaching Bangor