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”
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Sailing or drifting, that’s the question?
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?”
Day sailing
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”
Planning for Scilly
With a possible weeks holiday coming up, I started looking at the forecast for where we could sail, the more I looked the better the weather looked to go out to Scilly. We hadn’t ever made it out to Scilly in May before, at work grass was slowing after 2 weeks of dry weather andContinue reading “Planning for Scilly”
If I go south, will it be warm?
On Friday 3rd of May I was able to get out for another sail. I was limited by the fact I needed to be back in Gillan before 1400hrs so I could move Elektra onto her gale/east wind mooring in Carne Creek because of forecasted strong easterly winds on Saturday. So I thought, if IContinue reading “If I go south, will it be warm?”
Getting the best out of sailing
Ever since I learnt to sail 52 years ago, I have loved sailing. Having only ever had one sailing lesson about 3 years after staring (I never had the time or money to pay for more), I have always thought as myself as still learning. I haven’t ever been into racing sailboats but have crewedContinue reading “Getting the best out of sailing”
And we are sailing again
On Wedensday 1st of May looked good for another sail. I was down to St Anthony soon after 0800hrs, launched the dinghy and out to Elektra by 0820hrs. Getting Elektra ready to leave, I dropped her mooring at 0845hrs and motored her out between Car Crock and the Dennis Head. I set all the genoaContinue reading “And we are sailing again”
A Day Sail
With a chance of a day sail on Sunday 28th April, I needed to move Elektra from her gale proof/east wind mooring in Carne Creek on the HW at 0830hrs. I overslept and it was 0900hrs before I was launching the dinghy from St Anthony beach. Motoring out to Elektra I could see the tideContinue reading “A Day Sail”
Some Days at Anchor
Vicki started writing a list of forgotten items. We had taken a hot water bottle but unknown to us the bottle centre had stuck to itself inside its cosy, so a new bottle went on the list. In the meantime we had to make best use of what we had, so l filled as bestContinue reading “Some Days at Anchor”
A Chance of a Few Days Aboard
After Sundays sail the wind had been quite strong and I had got on with jobs at home but we were planning a few days aboard, a little shakedown cruise to find out what we had forgotten. The forecast seemed to surggest Wednesday would be better but the wind continued for another day. So itContinue reading “A Chance of a Few Days Aboard”
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