Dingle to Kilkee

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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 and Brandon and made 40 degrees magnetic to Loop Head. It was another 2.5 hours to Kilkee and we picked up an unused mooring near the pier. We went ashore on the dinghy and met my friend Matt who brought us to his home for a slap-up dinner of bacon and cabbage! It was wonderful. Back on board about 2200

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