Monday 18 July 2011

Monday 18th July - Isle of Skye

A brilliant day adventuring on our boat.

We had an early start, with a good breakfast on the table for 7am. Everyone was booted and suited, on deck and full of anticipation for the day...but these fears soon disappeared, and were replaced by some great high points for our day. We left Portree on the Isle of Skye in fog, but found we were pleasantly surprised as to how well we all felt when we headed back out to sea - our first high for today, sea sickness seems to be a thing of the past.

Our route took us south towards the Skye bridge and the Kyle of Lochalsh. We raised all four sails on Tenacity and sailed out of the fog into blue skies and lots of wind. Our second high of the day was sailing under the Skye bridge, with all four sails still filled with wind.

Heading down the east of Skye near Kyle Rhea we had our third high of the day - numerous large grey seals swimming along with our boat. And then the ultimate height of our day...sailing on a broad reach we hit an all time Tenacity high of a speed of 9.7! That's 9.7, and that felt fantastic.

So after a wonderful day on the boat we dropped our anchor in Loch Na Dal in the Sound of Sleat and have just eaten fresh scones on deck. We still have a busy evening ahead... learning more about working on deck, and settling down with the charts to plan our passage for tomorrow. Its been a busy old day, but we are are all feeling very positive and happy.

We are all looking forward to our evening meal and excited about where our adventure will lead us tomorrow....

Speak soon, love from all of the Tenacity crew x

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