The tide wasn’t with us until 1330hrs, so there wasn’t any rush to get away. But Coverack had become very rolly by mid morning and when we finally weighed anchor at 1230hrs it was a relief, there wasn’t any hurry so we sailed slowly towards Black Head. Then turning towards our Lizard way point the wind didn’t seem to help so l rolled away the genoa and started motoring slowly. With the barometer changing from 1013 to 1022mbs, the weather was looking good.
At the way point we turned west but the Lizard Point is always lumpy and we needed more power on to punch thought the waves. We continued to motor on northwest towards Mullion Cove at times doing over 8kts SOG, with 2 yachts in front of us, one was obviously going to Penzance or Newlyn and the other seemed to be going the same place as us. It wasn’t until she turned in towards Mullion Cove that we knew for sure. “Shifter” motored in and dropped anchor as we followed her in. And another followed us in and also anchored. So there was 3 yachts at anchor by evening the number had grown to 9.
We sat in the cockpit that evening enjoying the evening sunshine followed by a fantastic sunset we hoped but it wasn’t to be!
Love Sailing 