Well we made it home. Jessy arrived back to her berth in Adrigole last night at 1900 UT. We had a great sail back accross the bay of Biscay with about 20 knots of wind from the east pretty much all the time. The swell was a little bit sloppy being from the east (shouldn't look a gift horse in the mouth) but Jessy flew along at a constant 7.5 to 8 knots all the way home. Michael was skipper for the first part of the trip and although terribly sea sick for the first part he soldiered on regardless and by the end of the trip was eating pasta carbonara down below and playing sudoku. We were all very proud of him. Gerry from Adrigole Arts skippered the second leg of the trip and took to the job in hand organising watches and keeping everyone busy.
We did most of jessy's cleaning heading up bantry bay into the swell so we had very little to do when we arrived in the blissfully peaceful Adrigole harbour, with welcome comitee waving from the balcony. A quick shower and a bee line for the pub was in order to share tales with the other groub who have had fantastic adventures sailing round Dursey into Kenmare bay in the Keelboats this last week.
The very serious business of yachtmaster prep begins in earnest next week with dilligence, early mornings,late night passages,blind navigation, pontoon bashing, and picking up m o bs being the order of the week.
All for now will keep posted about the ym prep next week.
Niall
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You write very well.
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