Another early start this morning as we left Ardglass at 0700 heading for our chosen destination, Warrenpoint. The weather was fantastic with a blue sky and sun shining, however the wind was on the nose again so it was up with the mainsail to steady the motion and we motorsailed all the way down to the entrance to Carlingford Lough, where the tides can run strongly both on the flood and the ebb. Sara took the wheel and took us in past the Haulbowline Lighthouse and up between all the lateral markers in the narrow channel.

As the tide was going to neaps the tide was not running so fast, but as you can see it did add a bit to our 6knots boat speed.

The day before we had phoned Warrenpoint Harbour (a must do) and arranged a berth on the visitors pontoon in the Town Quay, and they reiterated that we needed to call them on the radio before we reached starboard marker 23 to get the required clearance up the narrow channel to Town Quay.

Turns out this is full of commercial vessels, but it’s really neat being that it is in the centre of town. We had a good walk around the town and couldn’t decide on a suitable restaurant, so we took the easy option and simply got a Chinese takeaway to take back down to the boat and watch another episode of Lost. Now we know that most of the UK population have watched this particular TV programme but we never saw one single episode. So, for this trip, we bought a boxed set to watch on the laptop when we were in a lazy mood, or the weather was poor, and must say that we have enjoyed the first few episodes.