Amlwch

A trip to Red Wharf Bay, switched to Amlwch for weather reasons.
 
Date Saturday 12 June
Sunday 13 June
Time
Beaumaris to Amlwch
Start: 08:40
End: 13:40
Elapsed: 5 hours
Distance: 24 miles
Avg Speed: 5 mph

Amlwch to Beaumaris
Start: 10:00
End: 13:10
Elapsed: 3:10 hours
Avg Speed: 6 mph
Tide UTC 12  1011  7.10  2229  7.39   0429  1.49  1648  1.51    13  1053  7.31  2311  7.65   0514  1.20  1732  1.33
Crew list Carolyn and Glen
Distance Beaumaris to Amlwch
         24 miles, 4:48hrs, 5 mph average
Amlwch to Beaumaris
          20 miles, 3:07 hours, 6 mph

Route

Route

Weather

F4-5, SW, Slight with occ. rough, good

Notes

This was supposed to be a club trip to Red Wharf Bay and a visit to the Traeth Coch Sailing Club.  Leaving too late, and with seas a little rougher than planned, we decided to head for Amlwch instead.  My Venturer write up here:

A trip to RWB involves going as soon as you float if your boat is on a drying mooring like ours. So, dragging ourselves out of bed (having had two hours sleep - courtesy Beaumaris Lifeboat) we left our mooring at about 0820. We were joined by Osprey and Ocean Mood (the latter not having missed a single club cruise to my knowledge). We had to get to the RWB buoyed channel by about 1100 to get a rising tide all the way in... In the event, we thought the bay just a bit too rough (i.e. not dead flat!) - we don't get much more than 1 metre under our keel going into RWB. So we radioed the others to say we were going to look at Lligwy beach instead. This, predictably, was also unpleasant so we radioed this back to the others who by this time were getting fed up with following a moving target! Mystery Trip indeed!

Other options were Porth Eilean or Cemaes - the A word had not entered my mind. Ed on Osprey did suggest it though, and I have to admit it did make sense. So we changed course for Amlwch and started sailing. Arriving in Amlwch, we encountered a dead calm sunny pretty harbour and tied off to one of the marvellous wall sausages they have there. Shortly thereafter, Osprey and OM came in and we made our way to the pub and had a terrific lunch, cheap as well.

After a short hiatus during which I caught up on some sleep, we had a barbecue on the picturesque hillside next to the dock. Malcolm from Hwll Dda was with us, and provided some 4000 year old Scottish beer - or so the label said. After the barbecue we went on to the Adelphi vaults where some of us avidly watched the World Cup. I was surprised with the result, apparently the USA don't normally win the World Cup. After this we continued with the fine ales the Vault offered for £2 a pint, chatting to the very friendly locals and some of us joining in with the Karaoke session.

All in all, I was very glad to have gone into Amlwch, it's not a harbour I have thought of as being very holiday like but this weekend proved me wrong. We returned to Beaumaris having had a brilliant sail all across RWB, and apart from then getting drenched in the Menai Straits, a great weekend!

Lessons Learned
  • Amlwch is a destination