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Thursday 4th July In holiday mood with a few boat jobs to do, the weather was great so we stayed another day, the plan was to leave on the next mornings high water and go to the Yealm River for meal in the evening at the Ship Inn.

Wednesday 3rd July First rest day, I spent looking at the channel at low water and seeing the best places to anchor, I also booked a table at the Sloop Inn for an evening meal The River Avon has a level sandy bottom with good holding, is fast flowing up to 4kts, the ebb runsContinue reading “Bantham”

Tuesday 2nd July There was no need to rush away from Salcombe so in the morning we went ashore for showers and cooked food before getting back aboard Elektra. we picked up our anchor at 1350hrs and motored out and set the genoa for the run down wind back to Bigbury Bay. Off Bolt Tail theContinue reading “Salcombe to River Avon”

Monday 1st June A place we had always liked the sound of but not visited because our last yacht had a fin keel was the River Avon in Bigbury Bay. Its a sandy drying river with fast flowing tides, we wanted to try getting in there this holiday. The pilot book suggests anchoring off atContinue reading “Cawsands to Salcombe via River Avon”

Sunday 30th June The tide stream wasn’t with us until 1345hrs for the 20nm passage east to Cawsands, so no need to rush away in the morning, we were trying to get into holiday mood. We might have slept in but the yacht we were rafted to left early in the morning, they were trying toContinue reading “Fowey to Cawsands”

Saturday 29th June The forecast of west wind at the beginning of the week and east wind for later in the week we had decided to go east instead of Scilly this season. With a forecast of north westerly 3-4 the plan was to get away as earlier as possible as the tidal stream would beContinue reading “Gillan to Fowey”

Friday 28th June We had a few jobs to do before we could get away but high water was at around 1400hrs and once Elektra was floating we would only have a hour to get her out of Carne Creek but Gillan would be no place to stay in the end of a easterly gale.Continue reading “A chance of a week aboard”

After staying put on Sunday because we didn’t want to punch back to windward in the forecasted southwest force 6 gusting 7. Our planned time to leave was 1400hrs just 1.25hrs after low water, as it happened we were grounded at low water. motoring out from Restronguet Creek was very shallow with only 0.5m underContinue reading “Restronguet Creek to Gillan”

Saturday 15th June After a busy week at work the weather looked good for a weekend away but they were giving strong southwest wind for Sunday. We decided to go Saturday and come back Monday. The tide would be out until 1300hrs so we had a lazy morning getting ready to go and when weContinue reading “Gillan to Fal River”

Green Bay, Bryher, June 2018 We always like to go to The Isles of Scilly sometime but with my work I look for a dry time when the grass has slowed up a bit. Normally there is a spring flush in April and May and by June the grass is slowing, we normally try toContinue reading “Scilly plans!”