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Saturday 4th August The tide was early for our passage east to the Yealm River, I had set the alarm for 0730hrs and we picked up the anchor at 0755hrs and we motored out of the cove setting all the sail we were logging a steady 4.5kts in the northwest 3, this continued for 2Continue reading “Gorran Haven to Yealm River”

Friday 3rd August With the chance of another holiday aboard, I had contacted Kevin with our plans to join in with 40th SSOA rally in Plymouth on the 8th of August. Having filled the fresh water tank and the diesel tank on Thursday evening. Our punt was still full of stores for our weeks holidayContinue reading “Gillan to Gorran Haven”

Friday 27th July After a late start Vicki cooked breakfast and after we sat in the cabin reading, this was a cloudy showery day but still warm. As we were aground 1.5hrs either side of low water we stayed until we had for about an hour after we had re-floated and picked up the anchorContinue reading “Helford to Gillan”

Thursday 26th July This was going to be a long weekend aboard but as always now the school holidays were here the forecasters were telling us of wind and rain! With a forecast of increasing southerly wind on Friday, force 6 westerly on Saturday and southerly gale on Sunday we didn’t want to go toContinue reading “Gillan for a sail then back to Helford”

Sunday 22nd July Having got out late and lounged around in the sun nearly all day the time came when we needed to get back. At 1500hrs we lifted the anchor and sailed out of St Mawes, all was good until we got out into Falmouth Bay where the wind died away, there comes a timeContinue reading “St Mawes to Gillan”

Saturday 21st July With a forecast of variable 1-3, we were thinking it would be another slow sail and we were right, we had a easterly1-3 for the crossing of Falmouth Bay. I like sailing slowly sometimes, its nice to see how much speed I can get out of Elektra in not much wind, today we wereContinue reading “Gillan to St Mawes”

Tuesday 17th July On Tuesday I had arranged with the riggers at Mylor for them to refit the masthead light which came off during our passage back from The Isles of Scilly in June. My sailing friend Roger had agreed to help me take Elektra in Mylor for the riggers to do the job, IContinue reading “Gillan, Mylor, Porthscatho,Gillan”

Monday 16th July Monday ended up being one of those days we sailors live for, the forecast was WNW4. We picked up our anchor and sailed out of St Mawes on just our genoa but soon felt we needed more sail. By barring away a bit I pushed out the boom and pulled up theContinue reading “St Mawes to Gillan”

Sunday 15th July Sunday is a day of rest and that’s what we did after a late start we motored our dinghy over to St Mawes and the sailing club for showers before looking at a few places for somewhere to eat lunch. After food there was some shopping needed, milk, bread and a bottleContinue reading “Sunday 15th July”

Saturday 14th July The plan for Saturday was more exploring, there seemed to be a bit of breeze from the southwest, we left Gorran just on the genoa to look at Porthmellon just south of Mevgissey. As we sailed around Chapel Point we could see a nice looking anchorage so sailed in slowly to check it out,Continue reading “Gorran Haven to St Mawes”