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Fowey to Gillan

Monday 27th May After a lovely weekend in Fowey talking with all the other Sadler and Starlight owners and crew it was time to leave and get back to work. A few had left on Sunday but the headwind looked less for us on Monday. The forecast was for the northwest force 4 to pick up and backing toContinue reading “Fowey to Gillan”

Gillan to Fowey

Friday 24th May This weekend was the annual SSOA Fowey Rally and 15 Sadler and Starlight yachts were expected to turn up. As we don’t like getting up early we stayed aboard on Thursday night to get away for the tide stream at 0800hrs. We cast off the mooring at 0830hrs and motored out into Falmouth BayContinue reading “Gillan to Fowey”

Channels Creek to Gillan

Sunday 19th May The forecast was north-northwest 4-5 for our sail back to Gillan. We lifted our anchor at 1500hrs and set just the genoa to sail south down the Carrick Roads, the wind was due north and Elektra was logging 4-5 knots SOG into the 3rd hour of the incoming spring tide. It was lovelyContinue reading “Channels Creek to Gillan”

Never say never

Saturday 18th May We like to anchor as much as possible, apart from most of the time we are anchoring for free, we also like finding new out of way places. Over the years we have spent over 250 nights on our anchor, our last yacht had a Danforth which seemed to hold very wellContinue reading “Never say never”

Gillan to Channels Creek on the Fal River

Friday 17th May After a morning of changing the battery wiring (I had bought new batteries from ebay, like a fool wrong polls) because the wire were to short. And then putting the yacht back together and re-stowing the gear it was 1200hrs when I got home. Vicki put some lunch on and I started onContinue reading “Gillan to Channels Creek on the Fal River”

Polkerris to Gillan

Sunday 5th May With a forecast of variable 1-3 the passage back to Gillan wasn’t looking that good. The plan was to leave at 1100hrs and we would have been on time if only we could have broken the anchor out easier, it turned out to be very good holding, a sort of clay/sand. After motoringContinue reading “Polkerris to Gillan”

Polgwyn Cove to Polkerris

Saturday 4th May After a lovely sheltered night at anchor and a lazy breakfast, the wind had swung into the east and small white horses had started to roll into the cove, the cove had started to get lumpy. Now nearing low water I checked the sounder which said we only had 1m underContinue reading “Polgwyn Cove to Polkerris”

Gillan to Polgwyn Cove

Friday 3rd May Now with time to go sailing again the plan was to sail to Gorran Haven and the following day to Polkerris in St Austell Bay. We were on Elektra stowing the gear and stores ready for the passage when Dave and Sue arrived and said they were also heading our way for theContinue reading “Gillan to Polgwyn Cove”

Easter Sunday

I wanted to go for a walk so after coffee but before food I climbed into the dinghy and rowed ashore leaving the petrol gen running to charge the phone and the batteries. I walk though the woods and fields to Place and back was lovely, blue bells lined the path most of the way andContinue reading “Easter Sunday”

Saturday 20th April

After a lie in and a cooked breakfast it was to start on some more jobs, refitting the blinds was interesting, I think we worked out how to do after a few tries! Just need to remember how to fit again next time. Then came the washing up but we had forgotten the washing up sponge andContinue reading “Saturday 20th April”