Tuesday 22 May ( Lands End)

At last we are under way and making way, with Bernard and Craig aboard.  We left at 0825 to make the best of the daylight at both ends, though initially against the tide.  From about 1000 we worked the west-going tide beautifully around the Lizard and across Mounts Bay (with distant views of St Michael's Mount) to Land's End by 1600. We reached Cape Cornwall (the only cape in England), where we turned to port and headed out into the Celtic Sea and left UK waters. We were again helped along by a large pod of dolphins as we motored through the evening (no sailing because we had the wind right on the nose). We began the night watches at 2200, making good use of the radar to track coasters and other larger vessels heading in all directions around us.  A very lumpy sea most of the way, so not a lot of rest when off watch, but I saw the watery light spreading behind us on the 0400-0600 watch.