Round Britain for the RNLI Blog

There is a big conflict of forecasts for tomorrow which indicates a high degree of uncertainty as to what might happen but I have decided that even if it isn’t good enough to make it to Port Askaig it is certainly good enough for me to go out and take a look bearing in mind that I need to return if things don’t look good.

So I will depart Bangor tomorrow at 0530hrs to take the northbound tide and if it looks good to continue then that tide should carry me all the way to Port Askaig.

As usual, the final decision to go or not will be made tomorrow morning and I will post my thoughts before I depart. I have a visit to the fuel pontoon first at about 5am and so I expect my final post at about 4.30am.

I will probably be well underway by the time you look in tomorrow so don’t forget to look at Google Earth rather than the web site tracking page if you want my very latest position.

Fingers crossed for good weather tomorrow.

Right now in Bangor it is a F2-4 and the sea looks flat from the shoreline but that is always deceptive as you can only see a couple of miles from the shore and the sea nearly always looks almost flat at a distance even when quite rough!!!

It looks like the high pressure to the south wants to stay there and we are still subjected to a contant stream of low pressure systems heading northeast. Looking at the the jetstream it gives a hint why there is this southwest to northeast line, south of it is high pressure and north of it is lows.

I am still hopeful that tomorrow (Friday) will allow me to get away so more later.