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I like to get a holiday in before the school holidays start, late June-first week in July. But the weather had pushed my work on with no sign of time for a holiday, I decided to take a week anyway, either the 4th of 5th week of June. With strong winds forecasted for the weekendContinue reading “A Chance of a Holiday”

After the Sadler Rally the weekend before, it was our turn to go and have a normal weekend of sailing, R&R, then more sailing. We find we don’t have to go far to enjoy Elektra. The Falmouth area is  full of places to go in all sorts of weather. One of our favourite anchorages isContinue reading “And so the sailing season has begun”

Our season hadn’t started very well at all, with April mainly East winds stopped most sailing. In May l got busy at work, so by the end of May we had only spent one weekend aboard. I was determined to get to the Sadler and Starlight Owners Association rally in Fowey over the Jubilee weekend.Continue reading “SSOA Fowey Rally”

With east winds most of April and too much work to do we had found the month had just slipped by without much sailing. I had moved Elektra to her seasonal mooring on the last Sunday of April, now ready to go sailing. The normal thing each season is to have one weekend away toContinue reading “First weekend away”

Vicki was away with family over Easter, I stayed home because I had to work some of the time. On Easter Friday I had to get out early to load some gear aboard Elektra before the tide was to low. After this back home, I had bought a new dinghy and I set about pumpingContinue reading “A little sailing”

We had been given the 1st of April for Elektra’s launch date but it was the 10th of March before I even started getting some winter jobs done. Still busy at work, it wasn’t until the 24th before I could really get on with the jobs. With a few finishing up jobs on the 27th,Continue reading “Rush job getting Elektra ready.”

Around October of last year I mentioned to Vicki about fitting a new kitchen at home at sometime. With in a week kitchen catalogs apeared, opps! I must been thinking out lowd, I didnt mean now! With grass cutting continuing up to the end of November (the year had been a month behind ever sinceContinue reading “Winter off!”

We had managed to get Elektra launched early (last day of March) but the lockdown wasn’t lifted properly until the 12 April so only had 2 day sails before then. We had a long weekend aboard from the 16th but being very cold we were glad to get home to the woodburner on the eveningContinue reading “Summing up for 2021 season”

Sunday 17th October There wasnt any hurry to get back to Gillan as long as we got back today, the weather was due to turn wet and windy from the southwest. It was going to be a sail to windward in southerly force 4. I picked up Elektra’s anchor at 1250hrs and Vicki motored herContinue reading “Last sail of 2021”