Thursday 10 June 2010 Douglas, Isle of Man N540 08.727’ W0040 28.098’

The evening get togethers in the Douglas Bay Yacht Club continue of those waiting for better weather. The Club computer screen is examined in the hope of better forecast. Everyone seems to have their own favourite weather site and nobody will admit to looking at as many sites as possible and selecting the most favourable one.

A trip was made on the steam railway to Port Erin, at the southern end of the Island. The railway is narrow gauge and single track with passing places at stops. Port Erin is a small harbour with large sandy beach, almost uninhabited. Outside the breakwater – what was the inner wall – is a line of rocks, or so it seems, which apparently is the line of the old outer breakwater that was destroyed in a storm.