On Saturday morning when l looked out, the wind had picked up from the south, Elektra was now swinging over the rocky area at the northern side of Green Bay. “Tantrum” the Moody 346 was very close ahead of Elektra. Vicki and l had a brief chat about what we would do, we might of moved to a different anchorage but we decided to stay in Green Bay but move to give us more space. I paddle the dinghy over to “Tantrum” and chatted with the skipper what we were going to do. Elektra’s anchor was under his yacht, so he agreed to fend Elektra off. In the end he pulled up some of his chain so l could pull up Elektra’s anchor and stay clear of Tantrum. Once clear he let out more chain and we motored Elektra over to more swinging space away from the rocks and other yachts. We dropped anchor again and Vicki cooked brunch.
After l had done the washing up, l went ashore in the dinghy, walked up to the shop on Bryher for some shopping. And then once aboard again sat in the cockpit for a time until Elektra dried out and the tide dropped enough for me to climb down the ladder and walk around the anchorage. At which point l decided to move Elektra anchor away from a swing mooring which had a RIB attached to, to give a bit more swinging room. The bottom in Green Bay is like wet concrete, seems quite soft until you try digging into it!
After another little stroll around the anchorage and another chat with Adrian, l when back to Elektra. Vicki was in the cabin as it had gone cooler again. Not very summer like we thought, l put the clear plastic wash boards and shut the hatch, we then run the cabin heater for a while to warm up the cabin.
We sat down to cold cuts with bread and cheese in the evening and later playing Scrabble with a bottle of red.
On Sunday we planned to move to Porth Cressa as we were leaving Scilly at low water on Monday so needed a deep water anchorage with easy exit to the sea. We hadn’t ever been in Porth Cressa even though we had visited Scilly now 8 times. So it was out with the pilot book and reading about the Wras and the Biggal. After breakfast, l was doing the washing up, the sun was out and blue skies, so l took a picture though the cabin window so l did miss the best part of the day!
We left Green Bay at 1130hrs an motored south out of New Grimsby Sound and headed for St Mary’s. We could of sailed on the northly force 4 but the engine hadn’t been run since Wednesday so we continued motoring the 4.5nm to Porth Cressa. We motored in and dropped anchor in the shallows, with 4m under the keel at high water, the range was 3m. After arrival at 1220hrs Vicki went for a sleep and l went for a walk, when l returned l also fell asleep in the cockpit. In the evening we went to the Atlantic Inn for meal, after returning to Elektra for the evening warming the cabin with the heater, Scilly is lovely in the summer but we haven’t had any summer weather since June 2023!
The plan is to leave Scilly on passage to Gillan at around 0800hrs on Monday.
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