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Ever since we first went to Scilly in 2009 we have anchored in Green Bay and being a drying anchorage the anchors are visible at low water, l have always been interested in how well they worked or didn’t in some cases. But it was the summer of 2013 which really made me think ofContinue reading “Anchors”

After a good night’s sleep l awoke on Tuesday to a dry overcast day. The first thing l did was row ashore for a walk on St Martin’s. After a good walk l got back to the beach, the sun was trying to break though the clouds, it was looking like a nice day 😀Continue reading “We love Scilly!”

After the last time we thought of going out to The Isle of Scilly in May the weather just hadn’t been good enough for long enough! Both Vicki and I love Scilly and are always looking for the weather to allow us to go but we know only too well that Scilly isn’t the placeContinue reading “Scilly take two!”

The plan was to leave Fowey back to Gillan with the good forecast of north-northwest force 4 on Tuesday as the weather for Wenesday was nil wind before the coming Low set to come in on Thursday, southwesterly force 5 gusting 7 with heavy rain. As our passage is in a southwesterly direction to Gillan,Continue reading “Fowey to Gillan before the Low”

With the time availible for more sailing the plan had been to get Elektra loaded with water, diesel and new camping gaz bottle Friday morning over high water before I had some work to finish. We had problems with the outboard the last time we were aboard when I thought I had flooded it, itContinue reading “Time for more sailing”

On Thursday 30th of May Vicki dropped me back in Fowey with a bag of clothes, water proofs and some stores. I also had 5lts of coolant, when l then dropped into the Harbour Masters office to pay for 2 more nights, Elektra had arrived last Friday and l was going to sail her homeContinue reading “Now to bring Elektra home”

The Sadler and Starlight Owners Association Rally was set for the bank holiday weekend 25-27th May, Vicki was going to be away with family and I was thinking of sailing to Fowey to the rally if I could get all my work done in time. Apart from a few problems with my brush cutter, IContinue reading “Fowey SSOA Rally”

Now Elektra was back on her mooring, l wanted to go sailing again, so on Sunday l was out early and down to St Anthony before the tide went out, it was a lovely day but the forecast was for light winds. At around 0845hrs I pulled up her mainsail on the mooring before mooringContinue reading “Sailing or drifting, that’s the question?”

After our plans to go to Scilly were aborted because of a bad forecast, we had come back from a weekend away and moored Elektra on her gale/east wind trot mooring in Carne Creek. The forecast turned out to be wrong, there had only been one windy wet day not the three-to four days. ButContinue reading “Day sailing”