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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”

Friday 13th July The tide was not going to be with us until 1540hrs but we didn’t want to wait that long, I know to early, we dropped anchor at 1100hrs and we set all the sail out of the Helford River and headed for the Dodman Point, to start with the sailing saw good but onceContinue reading “Durgan to Gorran Haven”

Thursday 12th July With the chance of a few more days sailing and still  with the good weather, we hoped to spend a some lazy days exploring some new anchorages. Earlier in the day I had been out and filled the water tank and topped up the diesel ready for the off later.  At highContinue reading “Gillan to Durgan”

Sunday 8th July Sunday was much the same as Saturday, great hot and sunny weather, the sea was a lovely shade of blue we hardly ever see in the UK. The photos just don’t show the sea as I remember it. It was lovely to be out on the sea sailing, we logged 8nm inContinue reading “Precuil River to Gillan”

Saturday 7th July With only light wind forecasted but hot and sunny for the weekend, we just had to get back on the water after a week at work. We could get out to Elektra after 2100hrs on Friday evening so stayed on the mooring overnight, in the morning there was no rush to getContinue reading “Gillan to Precuil River”

Sunday 1st July There was no rush to get home and we stayed on the pontoon chatting to owners before thinking of leaving at low water but by that time a huge mat of floating weed was up against our stern and I needed to get rid of it before I started the engine, with theContinue reading “Truro River pontoon to Gillan”

Saturday 30th June The next morning we had to go into St Mawes for food and showers, so I pumped up the dinghy and when we were ready we went ashore. While ashore Vicki bought us breakfast, the day was already turning into another hot one. Back aboard the plan was to head from St MawesContinue reading “St Mawes to Truro River pontoon (SSOA Rally)”