Having had a difficult week at work due to rain and a problem with my leg! I woke up on Tuesday morning and somehow pulled a muscle or something in the back of my leg, by Wednesday l couldn’t put any weight on the leg without bad pain. Thursday morning l rang the surgery and asked for a physio appointment and was told they would phone me that morning. Having not heard anything l phoned the surgery again just before lunchtime, and was told the appointments had been blocked off but the surgery hadn’t been told. Anyway without medical help l got though my mowing work but left all the strimming for another week.
So now that the forecasters were promising summer 🤔 we decided a week of rest aboard is just what the doctor would have ordered if l could have got an appointment 🙄
We planned to leave St Anthony at high water, so l didn’t have to walk to far, which worked out fine (at this point my leg just hurt if l put weight on it) most of the time when aboard l sit. The tide wasn’t with us until 1330hrs so there wasn’t any hurry to get away. We had decided to go around the Lizard Point into Mount’s Bay over the next few days with the forecast of Westerly force 4 for today we planned to go to Coverack for the night. The next 2 days are easterlys and then northerly for the following 2 days.
We set sail on just Elektra’s genoa at 1320hrs, sailing east to the Nare Point and then southeast to the Manacle Buoy which we passed at 1400hrs, from there our best heading was southeast in what seemed like a southwest wind. But with the tide now running strong our track over ground was south, we continued on this heading until east of Coverack and then turned onto a port tack towards Coverack. All the way in it looked like we would need to tack again but the tide kept pushing us south, so we didn’t have to tack again. We dropped anchor off Coverack Harbour at 1500hrs having logged 8.25nm.
Love Sailing 