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The day following loading Elektra’s sailing gear looked good for a day sail. The forecast saying almost no wind picking up to easterly force 3, there was a strong wind warning out of easterly force 6-7 for the following 5 days. Normally we would have gone aboard and gone over to the Precuil River beforeContinue reading “First sailing of 2026”

I needed to get to Elektra’s winter mooring by 0600hrs, so l was up early. Having driven down to Carne, l climbed into the dinghy and pushed off, the momentum was enough to get me out to Elektra without having to sit down and row. At Elektra, climbed aboard at the tied the dinghy amidships,Continue reading “Always a long day!”

The evening 18th April l drove down to St Anthony, and l motored the dinghy up the creek to her and eased the bow lines and pulled her out of her winter berth into deeper water, down the side of the creek bank. Because of my the high pressure, 1026, it had pushed high tideContinue reading “Moving Elektra into deeper water.”

I alway had a pick-up or trailer to get my punt to the sea, but having become an OAP, I put my pick-up on the market and it sold within the week, for a nice amount. But this had left me without any transport for the dinghy to the water, but we live within walkingContinue reading “Launching trolly to the water!”

When I was working full time, April and May were my busiest months of the year and so I always got our yacht ready for the coming season before the end of March because, if I didn’t I woudn’t have the time to do the work needed before June. Quite often our yacht would beContinue reading “Different Plans this Season”

By the 16th of March the weather was looking up and the sun had showed it self, so I spent Monday and Tuesday scrubbing Elektra’s bottom and washing her freeboard and decks. On the Wednesday, I did what I said I wouldn’t ever do again and that was to give her a coat of antifoulingContinue reading “Out of the rain into the sun”

Ever since the winter laying up period started in October it had been “wet, wet, wet! and by the beginning of March, I had only been aboard Elektra about 3 times just to check on things. So it was Wednesday 4th March, before l went aboard to check her out again and start on herContinue reading “Wet, wet, wet!”

As two of the engine mounts had suffered from heat damage in the July fire aboard, they needed to be replaced. I saw my engineer, Anthony was working at St Anthony and asked him when he wanted to jo the job, he was keen to get the job done. So I removed the saloon tableContinue reading “Engine lifted out into Saloon”