Left Inishboffin at 0930 with John Hillis, Moritz, Sally and Pat on Board. We arrived in Frenchport just south of Erris head about 1930. The winds were very light southerlies and Moritz managed to get the occasional 4 knots but we were avaraging 3. About 1300 we reckoned we would not make Frenchport before dark so reluctantly we started the enging and motorede at 5 knots. This is an amazing part of the coast. The hugh cliffs of Achill at 624 metres are the highest in the country. The beautiful Inishkea islands south of Black Sod Bay and the impressive Black Rock. We managed to catch a dozen mackerel and after navigating the big swell in the entrance we dropped anchor in Portnafrancach. This is a remote spot with nothing but a few fishing boats anchored ... read more

sally, and John Hillis had left Cork on the 0825 bus to Galway this prepared them for the sea journey ahead!... They arrived Clifden at 1430 and got a 12 euro cab ride to Cleggan. FR arrived 15 minutes before them. Its 5.5 nM and we had a perfect sail across with southerly F3-4. with our new found cockiness we approaced to within 500 metres of the pier with full main and full jib doing 6 knots! Furled the jib and with main only came very close to the pier before dropping anchor. No engine. sally and John arrived and we bought some supplies before sailingback out. Tried oour hand at catching dinner and got two mackerela and two big pollack. Dinner!. While dinner was being prepared ( by me , sally) there was a call ... read more

We finally set sail from Kilronan early Thursday with the intention of going straight to Inishboffin but the winds were NW F4-5 and right on the nose. We tacked back and forth for hours and at one stage we were 5miles SW of Eerigh Light ttruing to get into a favourable position to round Slyne Head. But it was not to be. Having left at 0630 we were looking at an ETA of 2100 so decided to cut in to Roundstone. That was a great decision because as soon as we north we had fair winds oon opur port. We navigated with care through the approaches to Roundstone. I was last here on FR with Ray about six years ago. With Moritz on the tiller we sailed right up to a mooring without turning on the ... read more

We had spotted a poster in Kilronan advertising that Druid were playing on Inis Meain the next day, Sunday. They were doing Martin McDonagh's The Cripple of Inismaan. So Moritz called the box office to be told that it was sold out but that we were going on a stand-by list so Sunday afternoon we made that short hop over to the fantastic new harbour. Its only about 3 or 4 miles and we tied up in 3m of water. We had caught two mackarel on the way over but we decided to see if we could sort oout the tickets before we ate. A taxi materialised out of nowhere and we were brought to the Hall. The stage crew were there and they toldnus to come back at 1930 when the box office opened. They ... read more

Left An Daingain at 0630 and arrived Kilkee at 1830. Thursday was the only chance to get out of Dingle because from friday about noon the weather was getting bad. Its about 18 hours to Inishmore so we decided to do a stopover in Kilkee and then make an early start to Kilronan the next morning. That what we did.... Dan got off before we left and headed back to Ballydehob. We motored out to the Blasket Sound with a F3 westerly on the nose. As soon as we tuned North through the sound we had the wind on the port side and we sailed for the next 9 or 10 hours right to Kilkee. It was choppy around Sybill Head and a bit wet but the rest of the sail was excellent. We passed Smerwick ... read more