Hopefully you are able to read this. As we're now at sea, I'm posting to the blog using our Iridium satellite phone as a modem. Until we have internet access again, I am unable to see what I've posted, so, please excuse any format errors etc. Also, I am unable to post photos, so, will be posting short text entries only for the next while.
We returned from our Irish land travels late Friday and left Baltimore Saturday afternoon heading towards Nuuk, Greenland. Although travelling through Ireland on a large, lime-green bus with cartoon leprechauns painted on it wasn't the most dignified way to see the country, it enabled us to see a lot in a short time. We went through Connemara, Galway, Dublin and Cork. Actually, Co. Cork and the area of the southern coast where we made landfall turned out to be the most scenic. The west and south coasts of Ireland would make a great summer cruising ground, uncrowded, scenic and many safe harbours a short distance apart. We didn't see any non-Irish boats during our week's stay.
The passage to Nuuk, Greenland is about 1,800 miles. We're hoping to arrive in eighteen days (July 9), but, it could go either way by a number of days. Our one week departure delay hasn't seemed to have made any difference. The same high pressure system is still entrenched overhead and we have made discouraging process during our first day out. However, we have enough wind to keep the sails full and we're travelling at 3-4 knots under sail, so, can't ask for much more with such light wind. The sun is shining and it's warm. It looks like there will be a change coming in the next 2-3 days. Nothing horrendous is forecast and we should get more wind, so, we'll just keep plodding along and we should pick up speed eventually.
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At Sea 22/6/2014 12:00 51°40.7'N 011°28.8'W
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