I had to hang around all day on Friday 26th June for Cornwall Council to pick up Vicki’s hospital bed. They told me it would be between 9am and 6pm, updating later to 12 to 4pm. And the guy turned up at 4pm and it took him an hour to dismantle, remove and leave.
I spent the day getting ready to leave, so 15min after he left, l was also ready to leave home. Of course by the time l had driven down to St Anthony and launched the dinghy, unloaded the car into it and motored the dinghy out to Elektra and got stowed and ready to leave, it was quite a bit later. I dropped Elektra’s mooring at 1820hrs, l had sailed Elektra across Falmouth, but now a mile south of St Mawes with a ebbing tide and less wind the SOG had dropped off to 2kts. So l started her engine and motored her to Place, only just making it in. Elektra grounded before l could drop her anchor, so l let her anchor go and enough chain for high water. Packing away, l looked at something for dinner but the meals where still frozen. So l had cheese and biscuits.
At low water, l climbed down Elektra’s boarding ladder and pulled her anchor out and set it by hand, to avoid me worrying about it dragging in the night when the tide came back in.
I was wacked and went to bed early, then about 10pm l heard fireworks, so stuck my head out of the fore hatch and what a wonderful display it was, for some reason it only made me sad that Vicki wasn’t here to see it.
Love Sailing 