Alternatively, watch the weather forecasts, consult tide tables and motor around in glass flat conditions.
Preferably with tide under you, not against.
Never bothered me when I'm doing 30 knots.
You do know you've strayed from your home in The Lounge into the MoBo forum don't you?
Alternatively, watch the weather forecasts, consult tide tables and motor around in glass flat conditions.
Yes indeedSound advice. Much the same as rounding the Mizen past Fastnet, or the Blaskets. It's only nuts in a storm, can be flat calm on nice days, so just pick a nice day for it. The Atlantic can be flat calm on more than a few days.
I came through Raz de Seine and through Chanel De La Helle with a forumite on a 23m boat, the seas we're fine, but the nav was a challenge with the tide.