Bangor to Portpatrick 23 September 2022

 


Left Bangor shortly before 14.00 to head for Portpatrick for the weekend.  After a calm beautiful morning we thought the crossing would be a sunbathing, relaxing breeze.  It was certainly a breeze - a really fresh breeze from the NNW, meaning it was broadside to us, making what should be a fairly short trip, feel long and lumpy.  

Apart from the many lumps the main excitement was playing chicken with two large American navy RFAs.  

Lazaway is the small pink vessel crossing in front of the two large turquoise vessels. We made it!

We have busy since our last blog posting - at least Gordon has been.  Several jobs that needed doing have been sorted.

Clockwise from top left: the inverter, wrongly installed in Plymouth, has been fixed by Brian Hanna in Bangor; a new 400amp fuse replaces the wrongly installed 300amp fuse; new visual cm gauge installed on the two fuel tanks; new double USB port installed at the flybridge helm; all the engine anodes have been replaced (5 per engine - though actually one on each engine could not be replaced (yet)); two new 240 amp hours batteries installed to support the inverter. It is brilliant to get these jobs done - but of course there are more to do.

Portpatrick was beautiful when we got in. 




 It was relatively sheltered and the sun came out, so a short stop to help the local economy was called for: 

This followed by dinner on board and queries as to whether the blog has been done?! Give me a minute!!

Our route:




















































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