Get homeitus

We used to suffer from “get homeitus” a lot when I was working, we were hoping now I have finally retired, that I wouldn’t get it anymore! But Vicki needed to be home by the 11th of June for her NHS treatment and with the forecast, it looked like, going west would be impossible until the 9th and 10th which we thought was a bit close for comfort.

The forecast was giving a short gap in the stronger westerly and south westerly winds on on Wednesday 4th. So I was out the bunk by 0430hrs and underway after coffee by 0510hrs, having pulled up the anchor leaving Vicki to sleep in a bit longer. The forecast was west force 3-4 increasing southwest force 4-6 later and stronger winds on Thursday.

Motoring Elektra east and the south out of Cawsands was calm because we were sheltered, but then we turned west around “Daystone” this wasn’t a good time! Vicki had to get out as most of the time she was flying (left up in mid air as Elektra crashed down over the next wave and the next! Of course I should of thought wind against tide off Rame Head and known it was going to be rough. Off Rame Head at 0535hrs was the roughest part of the passage and that was the time I decided to head for Fowey instead of Gillan. But an hour later the seas had moderated and I turned for Gillan. Motoring on in a west-southwest direction the wind died away and the seas calmed, it would have been a nice sail, but in the back of my mind I was worried about the wind getting stronger again, so continued to motor.

At 0935hrs when I wrote in my log we had just passed The Dodman Point about 4nm to the north having logged 27nm. The wind started to get stronger over the last hour, so we timed it just right. When we motored into Gillan, another yacht was on our mooring, so we continued into St Anthony and dropped anchor at 1224hrs having logged 40nm.

With jobs to do, I tried a few times to call the office but the signal was poor, when at last I did get though, the staff couldn’t hear me. I laughed, I could of probably of shouted over better! I lowered the dinghy into the water and then David came by on the ferry and said I understand another yacht is on your mooring? So the message got though anyway. I used the dinghy to ferry in some of our bags for home and into my pick-up. Then I pulled up the anchor, cleaned and stowed in the anchor locker, while Vicki motored Elektra back out to her mooring. There we did the few jobs needed before leaving Elektra, locked up and motored the dinghy back to the beach and drove the 2 mile home.