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| Bishop's Rock Lighthouse and we are back in the UK. |
Both the Irish and UK met offices threatened F5 to F7 winds with rough seas but the synoptic charts I had suggested much lighter winds so despite the forecasts I decided we would leave at 5am.
We left as the sun rose at low tide with virtually nothing beneath the keel. We needed to leave at this time to meet the lock times at Milford. As we exited the river the wind was light from the south and very little swell or waves. This situation changed very little during the day. The wind freshened to about a F4 but remained southerly and not very helpful. This proved to one of several days when the weather forecasts were remarkably adrift.
After several hours fighting the tide it turned in our favour and we shot past the Bishops Rock lighthouse at 10 knots only to be briefly stopped in our tracks as we were swept in the opposite direction south of Skomer. It was only a brief setback until we had entered Milford estuary, when a following tide took us up to the Marina entrance while lock free flow was still in progress. We had arrived almost two hours earlier that we had planned.
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