Old Hand’s Voyage to Ireland, Part 2

While A is away, the blog still gets to play. Please enjoy Part 2 of “Old Hand’s Voyage to Ireland,” from A View from the Wheelhouse. (Missed Part 1? Click here.) The silence was broken by a cacophony of seabirds as the anchor fell with a rattle of chain into the green waters of DingleContinue reading “Old Hand’s Voyage to Ireland, Part 2”

Old Hand’s voyage to Ireland Part 1

While A is away, the blog still gets to play. Please welcome a swab on the Old Hand, from A View from the Wheelhouse. Blinded by spray, I grabbed the weather rail as the north wind collided with the ebb and turned  Saint George’s Channel into a churning mass of breaking seas. We beat westward untilContinue reading “Old Hand’s voyage to Ireland Part 1”