Dad flew to Manchester for a work meeting on Monday morning, and we did school and went to the Harbour Master's office. He was supposed to be back late that night, but his plane got delayed. We were planing to leave the next morning, but his plane got delayed three times, so we couldn't leave because there is a gate in the entrance of the harbour to prevent it drying out, since the tide is so big. The gate only opened at high tide, and since Dad got home in the late afternoon, 18 hours later than we thought, we missed the opening. While we were waiting for him, Jonas played with a boy from another boat docked near us and his friends. They caught crab on the dock. Since it was a really hot and sunny day (which is unusual), we went to the beach with the boys we met. The next day, we invited our friend that we had met yesterday for breakfast and then crashed upwind to Ardglass in Northern Ireland. Since we had missed our weather window the day before, it was a bit rough. Yesterday, we sailed to the Rebublic of Ireland, to a place called Howth. It is like Florida because there are palm trees and a wide road with ocean on one side and cafe's and ice cream stores on the other. We went walking in town after dinner and played at the playground in the dark, which we were really exited about, since it had only just started getting dark at 9:00.