On Saturday and Sunday the forecast was for hot sunny weather, l thought a pub lunch at St Mawes on Saturday was a good idea and Vicki agreed. The morning started overcast and still with that cold east wind, it made it chilly on the water.
So when we set off down to St Mawes, l pulled on a sweat shirt and a fleece before getting into the dinghy. Vicki had pulled on a thick top as well. Arriving at St Mawes we seemed over dressed on land and had to take tops off again. Along to the “Rising Sun” for a pub lunch. But the sunshine wasn’t breaking though the clouds
We didn’t stop for more than one beer and lunch, just wasn’t warm enough. So walked along to the Co-op for some shopping before back to the dinghy. Pulling on our tops again and headed back up river into the cold wind and to Elektra. On the way down river before lunch we talked about stopping and seeing Adrian on “Swallowtail” who we had seen at anchor, but going back up river I was feeling to cold to stop. We had first met Adrian back in about 2008-9, at the time we were sailing our last yacht “Gala” a Hurley 22. Adrian was living aboard his cat “Swallowtail” and he found me nosing around his cat, as we were interested at the time of living aboard and cats seemed like a good live-aboard. But doing my homework I found cats not the best option after all and eventually we gave up the idea of living-aboard anyway. We have been good friends with Adrian since back then.
Back aboard Elektra Vicki stayed in the cabin to keep warm and I was out in the cockpit hoping the sun would show itself, which it eventually it did at the end of the day and evening.
Love Sailing 