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Over night as predicted the swell calmed down and we both slept well. There wasn’t any real hurry to get away as the tidal stream wouldn’t be running our way until 1040hrs, l pulled up the anchor at 1000hrs and we headed south across Mevagissey Bay towards Chapel Point on just Elektra’s genoa, on theContinue reading “Day 11, Polgwyn Cove to Precuil River”

We cast off in the Yealm River at 0820hrs the tidal stream would be with us between 0915-1515hrs, l wasn’t expecting much wind to sail by, so thought we would be motoring west. We had motored out to south of the Mew Stone 0850hrs, with almost no wind we continued to motor on in aboutContinue reading “Day 10, The Yealm River to Polgwyn Cove”

Vicki and me have always liked the Yealm River, in the past we would always be looking to get there for a night or two normally during a week’s holiday in September. With our last yacht, only missed the 2012 season between 2006-2016. With Elektra we came again in 2017 and 2018 but not inContinue reading “3 nights in the Yealm River”

I pulled up the anchor at 0830hrs and Vicki motored Elektra back down River towards the sea, while l cleaned the anchor which had pulled up a lot of weed. By the time l got back to the cockpit Elektra was south as far as the Bag Pontoon. I took over the helm until weContinue reading “Day 7, Salcombe to River Yealm.”

We had arrived in Salcombe midday on Monday, in the afternoon we were both just happy to rest, l lowered the dinghy and fitted the engine. On Tuesday we went to Salcombe Town over high water, first we needed a supermarket for shopping, with Vicki not able to walk far l motored the dinghy downContinue reading “A week in Salcombe at anchor”

The wind had died down overnight and the new forecast was west then southwest force 4. Our original plan had been to go to Dartmouth but a sailing friend had told me it was Dartmouth week, would be packed out, so we altered plans to Salcombe. The tide was with us us from 0800hrs butContinue reading “Day 3, Cawsands to Salcombe”

The tide was with us 0800-1400hrs and with the wind forecasted to increase from westerly force 4 to southwest force 5-6 by the end of the day we didn’t want to hang around so we cast off at 0700hrs. We motored Elektra out of Fowey and towards Udder way point setting all the genoa onContinue reading “Day 2, Fowey to Cawsands”

This season has been a growing year and as such l haven’t been able to take more than one week away sailing at a time. I was determined to get two weeks away before the season comes to an end, at the end of October. So l decided to take the last week of AugustContinue reading “Holiday time”

The Sadler and Starlight Owners Association had arranged a rally over a few days. The plan had been to enjoy the first day of the firework competition in Plymouth on Wednesday, then sail to the Fal River via Fowey over 2 days for the second half of the rally on the Ruan Pontoon in theContinue reading “SSOA Fal Rally”

On Wednesday 14th, I had planned to do some boat jobs and clean the stainless steel work. The tide was in all day so no real hurry to go to St Anthony. I loaded the pick-up with diesel in cans and a gas bottle and drove down about 1000hrs. Parked in the best parking spot,Continue reading “Boat jobs and cleaning”