The following day was Thursday 11th of July, another lovely day but we decided to leave the cockpit enclosure up and enjoy the heat, after all this was meant to be summer even if the weather doesn’t reflect it! After brunch and washing up we mainly lazed in the cockpit enjoying the surroundings, l slept quite a lot but l always sleep well when aboard. It was 2000hrs before we zipped down the enclosure and went below to play scrabble and opened a bottle of red. I won the scrabble, l scored 154 points on one word, after that Vicki couldn’t catch me anymore but was only 15 points behind at the end have scored 116 on one word herself.
Over night the wind was meant to pick up from the north and rain was forecasted for the Friday. When we went to bed the wind was howling and l was still a little unsure of our new anchor, it kept me awake for a little while but slept in the end. In the morning we were still in the same place so very pleased with how the anchor has preformed so far this season.
Friday started we lovely sunshine but a fresh breeze from the north. The forecast was poor and predicted thunder storms. The distance rumbling of thunder started about midday and the sky went back, the wind veered into the southwest and freshen, the sky got blacker nearly like night and then heavy rain! We were glad for the cockpit enclosure. I am glad to say it was short lived and with in a hour had moved away leaving an improving day. I found out via a local weather Facebook group that there had been nine lightening strikes within a few miles of of anchorage.
Once the rain had passed away the day became sunny again and l slept in the cockpit. About 2000hrs we retired below and played Scrabble and opened a bottle of red wine. That night was calm but with all the sleeping l had been doing, l didn’t go to sleep very quickly.
Saturday was a lovely sunny day. We had decided to sail back to Gillan today in the northern breeze to save having to motor home in no wind tomorrow. But there wasn’t any hurry, so a lazy brunch and slowly stowing away kit we worked towards getting Elektra ready to leave.
It was a slow sail without much wind but we didn’t start the engine until we got within a mile of Gillan and we logged 8.25nm in 2hrs. We picked up Elektra’s mooring and stayed aboard that night because it was low water and a lovely evening.
There wasn’t any hurry to get off Elektra on Sunday as long as we were ashore before 1630hrs. We thought it might be another nice day but not so as the temperature had fallen again. It is definitely a season for making the best of the nice weather when we get some! We went home around midday having tidied the boat a bit.
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