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Saturday 27th July Having had a good bit of R&R with a little sailing mixed in, now work was looming and it was time to get back to the real world. I lifted the anchor at 1305hrs and Vicki motored Elektra slowly out of the river and set all the sail to cross Falmouth BayContinue reading “Precuil River to Gillan and home”

Friday 26th July The forecast was for the wind to go into the northwest which wouldn’t be very good in Restronguet Creek so we decided to move back to the Precuil River. We were in no hurry and lifted our anchor at 1215hrs, there was a nice southwest 4 for our sail south, the windContinue reading “Restronguet Creek to Precuil River”

Wednesday 24th July After another rest day and with falling internet phone data left we decided to go home for showers and use the internet. I lifted the anchor at 0840hrs and Vicki motored Elektra out of the river, I set all her sail and we headed south-southwest across Falmouth Bay in a south-easterly 3-4,Continue reading “Precuil to Gillan, Gillan to Restronguet”

Monday 22nd July After a restful day at anchor and Sunday evening meal at The Pandorra Inn. The forecast was for the wind to move into the southeast so we decided to move to the Precuil River which has excellent shelter from the east. We were thinking of sailing in Falmouth Bay for a bit but there wasContinue reading “Restronguet Creek to Precuil River”

Saturday 20th July With my work still on a go slow, I got the chance to have another week away on Elektra. The weather forecast was changing all the time with strong winds in the week, in the end we decided to stay local and have some quality R&R aboard. I had needed to top upContinue reading “Gillan to Restronguet Creek”

Sunday 14th July With no need to rush home and a lovely sunny day we stayed a while longer, picking up our anchor at 1400hrs and motoring out of the river. Not much wind so we needed all the sail to get her moving at 3kts. There was quite a bit of easterly swell running inContinue reading “Precuil River to Gillan”

Friday 12th July After a busy week at work the weather still looked good for the weekend so we decided to go somewhere local and rest in the sunshine. With the tide not being high enough to leave St Anthony beach until 1100hrs it was a lazy start. Once aboard we got ready stowing stuffContinue reading “Gillan to Precuil River”

Sunday 7th July The tide stream wasn’t with us until 1300hrs but we were looking to get back the St Anthony beach before 1400hrs because of not wanting to be late home with work to do tomorrow this meant going against the flow. We dropped the mooring at 0730hrs and motored to Cannis Buoy beforeContinue reading “Fowey to Gillan”

Saturday 6th July We had hopped to use the showers in the Yealm River but they seemed to have a coded lock on them which having anchored in Cellar Bay overnight we didn’t have the code, so we decided to go to Fowey for showers today instead of Gorren Haven. The weather forecast was Nil/Continue reading “Cellar Bay (Yealm) to Fowey”

Friday 5th July The plan was to leave at 0730hrs 1hr before high water, which wasn’t liked by Vicki as meant getting out early, I got first and went on deck to do some jobs. It was then I discovered a problem, our dinghy which had been left floating on a long painter was underContinue reading “River Avon to River Yealm”