Time to head home.

Saturday the forecast was for lighter winds with more stronger winds in the following days. We decided to go home while we could.

The forecast was Westerly force 4 gusting 5. There wasn’t any hurry to get back as we wouldn’t be able to get into St Anthony until evening so l pulled up her anchor at 1400hrs, it took a bit of breaking out and when it did finally release, it was a ball of mud! I knew there was an anchor in there somewhere! Eventually l cleaned it enough to pull back aboard, stowing the anchor and washed down the decks. Vicki had been motoring Elektra slowly towards Turnaware Buoy, then she turned her into wind for me to pull the main up, before turning her south and heading back down the Carrick Roads.

The wind was from the west but a bit variable in strength, but we were sailing on reefed main and full genoa. There was spurts of speed and healing hard in amongst lighter wind. Going out past Pendennis Point the wind increased and l reefed the genoa and Elektra sped off across Falmouth Bay heading south-southwest towards Gillan, there were spells of hard healing even though Elektra was well reefed, l estimated the wind at force 5 gusting 6. At Car Crock east cardinal buoy just before Gillan l started the engine and rolled the genoa. Vicki motored Elektra into Gillan while l lowered and stowed the mainsail. Another great sail, we had logged 9nm in 2hrs.