With the forecast of southwest force 6 gusting 7 for Wednesday and southwest force 4 gusting 6 for Thursday, we would be staying in Cawsands until Friday.
On Tuesday evening, Cawsands was quite calm, and before nightfull 3 other yachts came in and anchored. But the anchorage was fairly rolly on Wednesday and all, but one of the yachts had left by the time l got out in the morning. The other was only here for an hour or so before also leaving. The problem was with big southwest winds making a big sea which was crashing in around the rocky shore, then the waves were rebounding into Cawsands. But after what we had endured, the Southerly in the Yealm River on Sunday, we were quite happy with a little rolling. Which was only going to get less as the wind eased.
For some reason, l couldn’t keep my eyes open after brunch, so l climbed in the bunk and went to sleep and awoke again about 1600hrs. From then until 1900hrs l was dealing with a lot of CA emails
After dinner, we opened a bottle of red, and l do some blogging, which Vicki played games on her tablet.
Then, when we went to bed about midnight, l only slept until 0500hrs and got out at 0630hrs. I suppose, l should of expected a sleepless night after sleeping in the day, but it really doesn’t make it any easier. I needed to get ashore for a walk.
After brunch, l had to go ashore and get water from somewhere, so l took the dinghy and rowed in, landed on Cawsands beach and asked in the pub about bottle water, they suggested the Spar in King’sands. So l walked to the Spar, and they had large bottled water. I asked for a case, they came packaged in 8s, So l lugged 8 bottles of water back to the dinghy in Cawsands and rowed back out to Elektra. In my moment of madness, l tried to prime the water, l should have thought it wasn’t going to be enough to prime the pump, but l put in 6 bottles before giving up! We saved the other 2 bottles for hot drinks.
Then l went ashore for a walk. It was my intention to walk to Rame Point and back via the road. But l ended up walking the coast path to Rame and back by the road, which was a lot longer than I thought!
It wasn’t the best weather for walking, but a lot better than the drizzle of the last few days. Tomorrow, we will be passing this headland out at sea, heading for Fowey.
Love Sailing 