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Having spent two nights at anchor in Channels Creek we decided to head back to our mooring for Sunday night to avoid getting out early on Monday. Quite a bit of the Carrick Roads is shallow, my rule to myself is keep to the deep channel 2hrs either side of LW springs, the rest ofContinue reading “Sunday 27th August”

It looked like being a great weekend for getting out on the water, the forecast was saying variable 1-2, this time the forecast was right. I had raised the mainsail before leaving the mooring, we motored off at 1800hrs and set sail but only making 1-2kts we soon decided it was to slow so startedContinue reading “Friday 25th August”

There was no hurry to get home as the tide would be to far out to get ashore until after 1830hrs, so getting out late and then having full English before doing the washing up. We took our time and lifted the anchor at 1300hrs, raising the main with the reef still in, we motored down theContinue reading “Sunday 13th August”

Having had very little time aboard and sailing in the past three weeks we found the weekend free at last. The forecast was NNW4 and we left Gillan under full genoa and reefed main and we were soon logging up to 6kts across Falmouth Bay in a ENE direction, with the odd squall coming though whichContinue reading “Saturday 12 August”

After three weeks had passed by where work had stopped all sailing, this weekend I had homework to do so on Sunday I decided to fit Elektra new stack pack. In the late afternoon once the tide had come in we went for a sail, the forecast said force 4 but I have the feelingContinue reading “Sunday 6th August”

After Monday being a nice day doing the holiday things, pub lunch a bit of shopping in St Mawes, we knew Tuesday was going to be wet and windy from the east so had chose to say put and wait for the weather to change. The forecast for Wednesday was SW4-5. Motoring out of theContinue reading “Wednesday 19th July”

After our Scilly holiday I had to work every day to catch up but now having done so we were away on Elektra for some R&R and a little sailing. We dropped the mooring in Gillan at 1235hrs and sailed slowly NE goose winged making about 2.5kts, the plan was to head for the PrecuilContinue reading “Sunday 16th July”

We had a lazy start to Saturday after the long day before but once out we got busy cleaning up all that Scilly sand, nice place but so much of the sand seams to get aboard! The forecast was for a S1-3, we lifted the anchor at 1550hrs and having not been able to sail muchContinue reading “Saturday 8th July”

The plan was to leave about 0900hrs, the tide would be with us around the Lizard Point between 1448-2048hrs. I hadn’t been able to sleep very well and was up early deflating and stowing the dinghy. The forecast was NW4, W3 later, we were hoping for a nice sail back to the mainland. Vicki alsoContinue reading “Friday 7th July”

We awoke to thick fog on Thursday which cleared by 1000hrs. After a restful day on Wednesday on Thursday we headed over to Tresco in the dinghy for shopping followed by lazy pub lunch in the “New Inn”, in the pub they were saying that Lands End airport was fog bound with no flights. TheContinue reading “Thursday 6th July”