After being anchored in Cawsands for three nights, we had to leave for Fowey as l was the organiser of a CA rally there over the weekend. The weather running up to the rally wasn’t looking good, and a few had backed out over the last week. But what would it look like if the organiser didn’t make the rally?
I think we probably could have sailed to Fowey the day before as l don’t think that the forecasted southwest force 4 gusting 6 happened. It was a top end of force 4 max. But we stayed another day in Cawsands, and l was glad a good walk around the coast to Rame Head and back by the road.
Now Friday 19th, l pulled up Elektra’s anchor at 0840hrs, and Vicki motored her out of Cawsands to sea around the Day Stone while l was pulled up and set the mainsail and set genoa. There was quite a lumpy sea running off the Rame Head, but Elektra was logging 3.5-4.5kts SOG in about 6-7kts of southerly wind, with a bit of tide, so we continued to sail. But once clear of the Head, the sea calmed down, and Elektra continued to log the same sort of speed.
As we neared Looe Island, the wind started picking up firstly to 8-9kts, with Elektra picked up speed to 5.5kts. Before Polperro, the wind was blowing 10-12kts, and Elektra had started to round up, so l pulled the first reef into the genoa to balance the boat again, now logging 6.5kts She kept on like this past Udder way point, to with in a mile of Fowey when the sea started getting lumpy again, l started her engine. And we motored from there into Fowey and onto the town pontoon where Richard’s “Spirited” was already motored. Elektra had logged 20nm in 4.5hrs, Richard took Elektra’s lines.
Vicki went and did a bit of shopping, Richard and I checked in the HM office to see which pontoon the CA had been allocated. Richard motored Spirited over to the pontoon and moored up while we topped up Elektra’s water tank. A few more yachts arrived, and a few more. Until the number 7 in total, which l was expecting out of the original 12, which had booked. The others had decided to come by road for the meal on Saturday at the RFYC because of the forecast.
That Friday evening, we all gathered in “Spirited” cockpit for drinks and nibbles and talking about boats and boating.
Love Sailing 