With a nearly flat sea and little wind we put the engine on and decided to shoot the gap between Little calf and the Calf of Man, rather than take the longer route by Chicken rock. Calf Sound is written up in the pilot as the most dangerous stretch of water in the Irish Sea, but we glided through with 4 knots of tide under us. The overfalls on the north side were a tad exciting for a couple of hundred yards and all the tourists at the view point would have been clicking their cameras like mad! A couple of hours later we were ashore in Peel, having tied up alongside a retired lifeboat, (A Watson) inside the main breakwater, being 2 hours late for the flap gate into the inner harbour. We met the owner of the lifeboat who was on his way to a lifeboat rally in Carrickfergus and appeared to have been celebrating having got that far! Following a stroll under the floodlit castle and along the harbour side, a luverly pint of Guinness at the Creek Inn we turned in after midnight, knowing that an early start for the long haul North lay ahead.