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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”

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”