With the chance of another weekend aboard, the season end was coming closer, it was Saturday 7th of October and we went aboard Elektra at 1100hrs, I had another run ashore for 50lts of water to stop us from running out. Once I had tipped into water tank and taken the cans back ashore, we dropped the mooring at 1240hrs. I suggested a sail before finding an anchorage, Vicki wasn’t keen but enjoyed it non the less. It was a south westerly force 4, we sailed east to Nare Point and southeast towards Manacle Buoy, just before the buoy we turned east again and I set the tiller pilot going and we sat and ate lunch. Vicki said “is this what you do when out sailing on your own?” I said “yes, I can’t sail without using the tiller pilot” I said “I just have to keep watch for pot markers and other boats”. Vicki and I had always loved sailing and both love to helm, so leaving Elektra to sail herself isn’t our normal sailing.
Once we had eaten our lunch Vicki took over the helm again and we turned north-northwest for the Carrick Roads, now on a broad reach Elektra picked up speed and we had a nice sail back into the Precuil River. We had spent most of our time aboard at anchor in the Precuil River since coming back from Scilly in June but we love the place. We did drag anchor the last time we had been in here but that hasn’t put us off. we dropped anchor at 1526hrs having logged 12.5nm. There were 8 other yachts anchored in there over that night.
The next 2 days had no wind because of the high pressure, we had to go back on Monday because Vicki had a flu jab booked for Tuesday. We we got out on Monday it was the thickest fog I had ever seen, we couldn’t even see the river banks! Having had breakfast and done the washing up it became a little clearer but I still wasn’t looking forward to crossing Falmouth Bay. Two of the other yachts left in the morning but we left it until 1255hrs before picking up Elektra’s anchor. The sun had started to break though and visibility was about 6nm as we started out crossing Falmouth Bay, by the time we arrived at Gillan Harbour and picked up Elektra’s mooring at 1405hrs the visibility had improved to 20nm in lovely sunshine.
Love Sailing 