I spent lots of time and money getting Elektra just as we wanted her, January though to end of March, new bespoke solar stainless frame, new black water tank, 2 new 80W solar panels, new push-pit gate, all new running rigging, unused new sails from 2022, etc, the list goes on.
Elektra was launched on the 5th of April. The plan had been to sail more having semi-retired by working one week and having the next week off. That had been the plan but the weather didn’t play ball. In April, it nearly rained non-stop, I might of been doing half as much work but it was taking me twice as long to do! So with only one day sail in April, it was the last weekend of April we went aboard for a week, 28th to 5th of May. This week was very cold so we stayed local. We were aboard again 13-20th of May with much better weather we sailed east to Fowey and then Yealm River staying for a few days, our last visit had been back in 2018. We came back via Cawsands, Polperro and Lantic Cove.
Our first weekend wasn’t until June, by that time we had already taken 2 holidays. The weekend was spent on Elektra’s gale proof mooring in Carne Creek because of the strong east winds. I had spent the week before changing all her batteries, fitting a new cooker and renewing the companion way non slip steps. Then between the 9-22nd of June we went to the wonderful “Isles of Scilly”, this was my first summer holiday longer than a week for 35 years and wow, fantastic weather!
We came home again just before the weather broke, from then on the summer was wet and windy and we never left the Falmouth area but we still managed to get 3 more single weeks aboard mainly sheltering from the poor weather. This season I also had lots of day sailing in between gales.
In early September there was a nice spell of hot sunny weather, I was hoping the summer had come back but it didn’t last and went back to the wet and windy weather. We laid Elektra up on the 14th of October before the next big blow came though.
The numbers are, we had 85 days aboard, 58 nights aboard of which 48 were at anchor, Elektra dragged her anchor once, this being the 4th time she had dragged in 7 seasons having anchored 240 nights. We sailed for 50 days and logged 585nm which isn’t much for the time aboard but we were quite often dodging gales, so short passages to find shelter.
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