The first waypoint was the South Bishop lighthouse some eleven miles across the bay. The moon was setting so we thought we would be in for a dark night, however the east sky never went completely dark.
With the tide under us we were traveling at ten knots over the ground, but we did need the engine on.
After South Bishop we took it in turns to stay on watch whilst the other dozed below for a couple of hours.
The depth sounder started making strange noises. It has a 'Deep Water' alarm which goes off when water deeper than 100m, something I haven't experienced before.
When the tide turned against us, we were only making 2.5knots over the ground.
As we approached Arklow, we were finally able to sail, with the engine off, but it wasn't to last long before the wind dropped away.
We moored in Arklow Marina at about 15:00 and, after a shower, we went in search of a Guinness. No phone signal, no wi-fi, but lots of Guinness available.
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