Route showing tack to Moelfre on the way there
| Date | Friday 7th June 2006 |
| Time | 1000 |
| Tide UTC | 7 0725 6.05 1959 5.97 0118 2.81 1356 2.44 |
| Crew list | Carolyn and Glen, Llew |
| Distance | 27.9 miles |
| Timings | 1000 - Left mooring 1100 - Puffin Sound 1300 - Anchored Moelfre 1530 - Left Moelfre 1640 - Puffin Sound 1745 - Moorings |
Issued by the Met Office at 0500 UTC on Friday 07 July.
Inshore Waters Forecast to 12 miles offshore from 0500 UTC to 0500 UTC.
St Davids Head to Colwyn Bay, including St Georges Channel.
24 hour forecast:
Wind: west or southwest 4 or 5, occasionally 3 later
Weather: occasional showers.
Visibility: moderate or good.
Sea State: slight, occasionally moderate in south
Outlook for the following 24 hours:
Wind: west or southwest 3 or 4 backing south 5 to 7, perhaps gale 8 later
Weather: fair, then rain later
Visibility: good becoming moderate later.
Sea State: slight becoming moderate or rough
Route showing tack to Moelfre on the way there
This was a gentleman's sail, leaving our mooring at the respectable time of 1000. High tide was 0825 so we had the tide taking us all the way. The wind was ideal - with the tide helping us we made very good progress getting to Puffin Island in one hour flat. Turning towards Moelfre put us a bit into the wind; we made the best course we could until turning straight in. In fact we made record times for us, with a through the water speed registered at 5.4 knots:
5.4 knots through the water!
Our average speed was 5 mph, with a top of 7mph over ground. There was enough wind to make it a very good sail:
Storming out across the bay
Arriving at Moelfre in 3 hours was quite an achievement for us. As expected on a Friday, there were not many boats out:
Approaching Moelfre - lifeboat station on right
The sun was just starting to come out at this point, which made sitting outside the pub a reality. It was very warm. We all had a meal - the fillet steak with pepper sauce was expensive but worth it.
View from the Kinmel Arms - watching Jenna, doing anchor watch from the
shore!
We got to Moelfre before low water, and anchored in about 4m of water. We were fairly close to some rocks but the holding there is superb, and the wind was blowing us off them anyway:
Jenna at Low Water, Anchored at Moelfre
After a few pints while we waited for a favourable tide (no point in going before hand as you'd be fighting tide and not be able to get back onto your moorinng anyway!), we set off back to Beaumaris. We positively shot across the bay in just over an hour!
Storming back!
We had worked out that we could get onto our mooring at 1800, in the event we got back slightly before that and sneaked back onto it.
Arriving back in Beaumaris