At last a warm day! Unfortunately the wind was very light, most of the time only about 5 knots but it was a pleasant sail and for the first time on this trip I was sailing in shirt sleeves and shorts - at least for a few hours.
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| Track from Hunda Sound to Stromness. Skirting the Barrel of Butter reef at the half way point. |
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| The "Barrel of Butter" reef with Hoy and Fara behind. The boat has divers down, probably fishing for Scallops, the owner dived on Sancerre last year when I had propeller problems  |
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| A nice Laurent Giles 38 footer also going to Stromness, I was the first visiting yacht at Stromness this year half an hour ahead of her. |
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| Defences on the Orkney "mainland" shore of Scarpa Flow. |
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| Graemsay and Hoy |
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| Stromness |
Some interesting trivia (for many) we are still well off the longest day but the almanac includes this for Stromness:
21:31 Sun Set azimuth 309°
00:20 End of Nautical Twilight azimuth 348°
01:58 Start of Nautical Twilight azimuth 012°
03:49 Start of Civil Twilight azimuth 038°
04:46 Sun Rise azimuth 050°
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| Looking from Stromness towards Scarpa Flow. |
Today (Wednesday) its back to normal with a fairly strong cold wind, a bit of rain and no sun. The forecast is reasonable (NE F3-5 backing N in the afternoon or evening, with showers) to get to Loch Eriboll tomorrow although its likely to be uncomfortable, another dead run, and probably a nasty sea although the forecast says the waves will be "slight to moderate".
13.7 miles in less than 5 hours.
Slide show of all my pictures from Peterhead to Stromness, page through by clicking the arrows or click in the centre of the pic to view from Flickr in a new window or full screen:
Good to see you in Stromness again, John. Best wishes for the rest of your trip! Leesa, Orkney Marinas.
ReplyDeleteThanks, good to be there again. I made Stornoway but the weather later in the week precludes St Kilda, next year perhaps.
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