Boffin - Cleggan - Boffin

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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 on Channell 16 for Fine Resolution. It was the bould Pat Ryan that we had met on Inishmaan. He was on the pier preparing to board another boat (saphire?) for a few days sailing. He and the skipper, Kevin called out on their dinghy for a chat. Kevin has crossed the Atlantic on his boat ( Moritz will go with you next time Kevin). We met up with them later in days bar. We also met a Welsh crew 10 days out of Aberystwyth on a 26 footer. They are going around anti-clockwise..... the protestant way..... despite a F6 forecast from the south for the next day they were going go directly for An Daingain the next afternoon. 'We'll still average 3 knots', said the skipper..... So a few pints with Pat, Kevin, and the welsh lads before returning back on the dinghy. The tide had really dropped and we had to jump down on to the dinghy. Four souls went to sleep on board and there was no one up before 1100!
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