Today we had some nice spinnaker sailing and for once it felt like the spinnaker wasn't trying to destroy itself and everything around it. We managed to make good headway towards Tory Island where the wind shifted in the final few hours as we approached slowing down the chasing boats. Around dinner time we put our final gybes in to line us up to pass Tory Island and we prepared our Yankee for a hoist.
Sailing towards the Irish coastline felt very much like returning home with scenery and a climate that we are all used to. A spinnaker drop and headsail hoist set us up for our upwind leg and we sailed around the cliffs of Tory Island heading north-west into the wind and waves of the Atlantic. Rockall, here we come.