I motored Elektra back from Falmouth to Gillan Harbour after she had been rewired at the end of July. I was lucky to find an Marine Electrician who was between jobs and could do the rewiring over a weekend. It was nice to find out that the new eletronics hadn’t been effected by the fire.
Then I spent the next 4 days washing the cabin hot soapy water (under the powder is a sticky surface). On Wedensday I replace Elektra’s bow nav light, sometime between us abandoning Elektra off the Lizard Pt and us picking Elektra off a mooring in Helford River the fitting had been broken. This seemed like an easy job but the light was out of reach on deck from the bow because of the furrling gear and from standing in a dinghy was above head hight, if the dinghy would have stayed still it would have been easier! Lol, I did manage it in the end even if it did take me 5hrs!
On Friday at about 0500hrs, I motored Elektra into St Anthony beach to let her dry out so we could reload her cruising which had all been home for washing and cleaning. I came back home and loaded the pick-up and around 1000hrs I drove back to St Anthony with Vicki to load the gear.
At about 1230hrs we left St Anthony for home again after removing my petrol generator which I had been using for the vacuuming. It was 1500hrs before I drove back to St Anthony to wait for Elektra to float off again which she did at around 1600hrs. I picked up her mooring and attached the dinghy before dropping again to go for a sail. It was only about 5nm over 1.25hrs, but it was lovely to be out sailing again after all the hard work.
Love Sailing 