After Elektra’s fire, she had been rewired at the end of July. And then we had been away sailing for 5-6 weeks, we had found a few little electrical jobs which needed doing. So I had concacted Rupert our marine electrician to arrange for them to be done.
On the 1st of October at first light, I got down to St Anthony and launch dinghy to get out to Elektra. With no wind, I motored Elektra over to Falmouth, logging the 7nm in 1.5hrs and moored her to Ruperts own mooring. I had arrived in good time and Rupert came out by dinghy about 1/2hr later and we talked about what work was needed.
I had arranged with Paul for him to pick me up from Falmouth about 1100hrs with his Hawk 20, so I could try his yacht out while sailing her bck to Gillan. He arrived about 1100 like he said and we talked for a bit before casting off and setting sail for Gillan. It was lovely to sail something different and the Hawk sailed very well indeed but I kept on thinking how low in the water I felt and was looking for some form of speed indicator. Anyway it was a nice sail, thank you Paul.
Rupert, the marine electrician, found Elektra needed new light wires in her mast, and so Matt at Alspars ran new cables on Monday. I went over to Falmouth in the evening and motored her back to Gillan.
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