Day 15 - Weather watching

Old Fishguard Harbour 

Had to paddle in for a visit to the Gents!

Evening mist settling in. 

Old Fishguard Fort keeping us safe in harbour.

Sail GP Highlights from Plymouth 

 No wind forecast today. Anglesey is still a long way off. This meant a day of thinking about what our best strategy would be.

Getting all the way round before we are recalled back to work seems way beyond us now. Getting to Anglesey and beyond into Scotland is not looking certain at all for the coming week.. like it or not we are now thinking about exit strategies and how best to get ourselves and Double Sovereign back home from wherever we do end up.

The weather forecasts are changing on an hourly basis which is not making planning any easier.

As I write this in the evening we are going nowhere tomorrow but we do seem to have one opportunity to get to Anglesey on Wednesday. Winds are forecast to be on the borderline of what would be prudent and manageable. This forecast, however, has improved in the last hour or so, so there is still hope that we can do this.

Planning ahead there seem to be more days of calm and some opportunities to get further north. So who knows.... Maybe Scotland is still a possibility.

Check again tomorrow.

If we can get away from Fishguard on Wednesday then we will just have to start taking each day as it comes. If it looks rubbish for more than a few days on the trot then we'll bale out. Otherwise we keep plodding up to the end of week 4 which will be the 8th August. Then we have to stop wherever we are and use the final few days to get ourselves and DS back home.

Also took a little bit of time to run ashore between tides, visit the local fort, test the local ice cream (it passed!) and catch up on Olympic and sailgp news.