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I had been extra busy at work though the winter and when the lockdown had started for Covid 19 in the UK on the 23rd March I was just coming into my normally busy time at work. As my job cant wait I got on to my MP and was told I could continue toContinue reading “First holiday since Christmas”

Saturday was a better day and the dinghy went into the water to take some photos, as Nigel Stokes was also anchored near by in his Sadler 26 “September Sky”, I rowed over to say hello. Nigel base has been Exmouth but he was moving her via Lands End to her new base in theContinue reading “The Precuil River”

Friday 31st July Getting out aboard by lunch time the forecast wasnt looking very good but sutch are the British summers! We dropped the mooring at 1430hrs and sailed off into the gloom with only Elektra’s genoa set with a southwest force 4 pushing us along at 4-4.5kts. The fog was think at first butContinue reading “Another weekend aboard”

Back at the end of the 2018 season we decided to get some quotes for a cockpit encloser, to say the quotes varried would not be telling the whole story, the cheapest was less than half the cost of the dearest. In fact the deposit for the dearest was more than the total cost ofContinue reading “New Cockpit Encloser”

After a day at anchor doing some maintance, cleaning more teak and sealing. Sunday 19th July With a forecast of Northerly force 4-5, at least the trees seemed to be blowing about a bit today, the plan was to go for a sail and get back to St Anthony for just after high water (1716hrs)Continue reading “A great sailing day”

Friday 17th July With jobs to do in the morning it was 1400hrs before we could get aboard, the plan with the forecasted NW/W4-5 to have a good long sail to Mevagissey area and find a nice anchorage. Dropping mooring at 1440hrs the wind seemed good but the wind wasnt as forecasted, only about W3,Continue reading “Gillan to Mevagissey area was the plan”

Sunday 12th July With light winds forecasted for Sunday we knew the best sailing would be in the Carrick Roads. Motoring out of Channels Creek into a southly force 3 at 1200hrs pulling up the main and setting the sails, our first tack took us from Pill Creek across the Roads before tacking again acrossContinue reading “Slow sail home”

Saturday 11th July I suggested a barbque on Turnaware beach on Saturday evening so we could talk and still keep our distance, some tiked the idea but others didnt, one of the SL35s left to go to St Mawes because they needed to get back to Plymouth on Sunday with work to do on Monday.Continue reading “Social distancing barbque”

From Saturday the 4th July we have been allowed to sleep aboard, of corse with the luck we have had this summer, it turned out to be a stormy weekend so we stayed home. On the SSOA facebook page I suggested a local rally, this seemed to take on a life of its own withContinue reading “Now allowed to sleep aboard”

Vicki and I like a quite anchorage “away from the madding crowd” it can be lovely in an anchorage alone but the down side of this is the need for a dinghy to get ashore. With our last smaller yacht we had a 2.4m flat bottom roll-up which we stowed in the quarter berth whenContinue reading “New Dinghy Davits for S29”