With the light winds all over the place and sometimes nowhere at all, round Ireland voyagers Eoin Keyes and Leonie Conway with the little Hurley 22 Moonshine have been having an ultra-frustrating time in getting past the Saltee Islands off the south Wexford coast, and then shaping a proper ground-covering course towards their concluding destination of Kinsale.

It’s one very obtuse area to be negotiating in the current on-off wind situation, for the strong tides remorselessly turn against you every six-and-a-quarter hours, yet they’re too far offshore in water too deep to contemplate kedging, and thus on three occasions, they have significantly lost ground.

But as of lunchtime today (Wednesday) they’ve finally shaken off those Saltee shackles, and though it's not likely to be a dream of a sail the rest of the way to Kinsale, at least the distance to go is finally down into double figures.

Track chart here