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21 June
Anglesey Cruise
On the train back to Heswall from Conwy I had a sense of success tinged with the feeling that there was still a job to be done, the vagaries of the British summer weather had necessitated the usual dilemma, to go out to sea or not and I had at 0500 that morning decided to head for home by public transport rather than risk: another long paddle, a 2 am entrance into the Dee, or termination of my employment as I had not booked another days holiday. The last leg of the journey must wait for another day.
Three days before I had set out from Thurstastion with three goals :
1. Get back alive
2. Set a monohull time to Beaumaris pier
3. Get round Anglesey.
I have copied the GPS track that shows that 1 and 3 were achieved, you will just have to take my word that it took 8hrs and 25 mins to get to Beaumaris ? I hear scoffing from those who sail with two boats somehow strapped together and await stories of a sub 5 hr trip- if your hard enough! (Can I hear the thud of leather on earth as the studded gauntlet of hormone fuelled bravado hits the ground firmly at the feet of the other fleets?A small cloud of dust rises and hovers expectantly in a pall waiting for a reaction, who indeed is helm enough to snatch up this token and slap it firmly and in quick succession across the jowls of this protagonist. It could be a 'right of passage' to the annals of club legend?) Ed.
Map
With the tide races around Carmel, South Stack and Point Lynas, the hours of planning paid off, as Tim (of Round Anglesey in a Mirror) pointed out ?its all a matter of timing? ? If anybody is planning a similar journey I have attached my rough timing guide, it turned out to be surprisingly accurate.
Timetable
The only significant deviation was that on the final day once past Point Lynas and heading at 6kns towards Gt Orme at around 1030, powers greater than mine switched the perfect wind that had given me the best sailing of my life along the north coast, past the Skerries, inside West and Middle Mouse, off! I eventually arrived in Conwy Marina at 0015, with a sore hands and arse from a very long hot paddle and an extremely lucky entrance into Afon Conwy.
Bangor Pier
On a Run
Puffin Sound
West Mouse
Britannia Bridge
Middle Mouse
At Anchor
Point of Circumnavigation
Apologies for the poor quality of the Pics ? they are from a waterproof disposable camera that had let some light in, I dropped my digital in the sea at the Wayfarer Bash.
Quentin Jones
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