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After being anchored in Cawsands for three nights, we had to leave for Fowey as l was the organiser of a CA rally there over the weekend. The weather running up to the rally wasn’t looking good, and a few had backed out over the last week. But what would it look like if theContinue reading “Cawsands to Fowey”

With the forecast of southwest force 6 gusting 7 for Wednesday and southwest force 4 gusting 6 for Thursday, we would be staying in Cawsands until Friday. On Tuesday evening, Cawsands was quite calm, and before nightfull 3 other yachts came in and anchored. But the anchorage was fairly rolly on Wednesday and all, butContinue reading “Anchored in Cawsands, waiting for the weather to move on to Fowey.”

After arrival in Cawsands, dropping anchor, we went about our jobs, the cockpit enclosure needed put back up. Once that was done, Vicki went down to make a hot chocolate. It was discovered by Vicki that we had run out of water. The tap was on, and the pump was running, but no water wasContinue reading “Water water is everywhere but not a drop to drink!”

Once back from our showers and Vicki was aboard, l removed the outboard from the dinghy onto the pushpit and then attached the davit lines before climbing aboard myself. I then  pulled the dinghy up onto the davits. Removed the cockpit enclosure and stowed below. I started the engine and switched on the instrument. IContinue reading “Escape from the Yealm River!”

We arrived in the Yealm River on Friday, 5th September, and now it was Friday 12th. There had been almost end to end gales since Sunday. We knew this would be the case as a week ago, as the forecast was bad, but we had accepted that we would get stuck somewhere. But now, aContinue reading “Yealm River, week two!”

On Sunday evening, after we moved from the rally pontoon to a swing mooring, we were much happier. Apart from the feeling of being at anchor, here I also had a mobile signal. I was able to catch up on my online stuff and update my blog. We knew before we left Gillan that weContinue reading “On holiday in the Yealm River”

When we arrived in the Yealm River on Friday, there were already 2x Starlight 36s and a Sadler 35 moored to the pontoon. There were plenty of folk to take our lines. Thank you, Suzie and Sally. It was long before we were invited on to yachts for a drink because they wanted to knowContinue reading “Sadler and Starlight Rally”

On Friday 5th September, we had a forecast of west/southwest/south force 2-3. I was quite expected to have to motor to the Yealm River, but once out of Fowey, the engine got turned off, and we were sailing under full sail. We had dropped the mooring at 1030hrs, motored south back out the river, andContinue reading “Fowey to Yealm River”

Ever since starting cruising 20 years, we have always been limited by time. Because of my job, l could only take a week long holiday at a time, and after 3 days heading in one direction, we needed to turn around and think about heading back. As such, our sailing was limited to about 150nmContinue reading “Limited by time”