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We had bought “Elektra” in November 2016 and spent extra money on new standing rigging, new cabin heater and generally getting her how we wanted for sailing this season. Then came the delivery passage in March, not without its problems with the engine but mainly due to not knowing our new yacht very well at theContinue reading “End of 2017 season summing-up”

It seems the winter gale have arrived early, there seemed a day I could go sailing before the bad weather arrived so I grabbed a day on the water. It had been blowing from the east overnight but was forecast to go south today, Gillan Harbour is very sheltered except from the east and Elektra was jumpingContinue reading “Wednesday 18th October”

This was going to be another solo sail but my friend “James H” who I know though my Hurley days, we both owned a H22, James had long since moved up to a bigger 34ft yacht. James had a friend who was looking at a Sadler 29 in the Helford river and he asked me ifContinue reading “Saturday 14th October”

My wife was taken ill a fortnight ago, spending a week in hospital and another in bed at home, Vicki was feeling a lot better but not able to go sailing, she was happy for me to go out for the day on my own. Never having sailed on my own other than in dinghies when I wasContinue reading “Sunday 8th October”

Sunday turned out to be sunny and warm, it was time to try out the wet weather gear, the dinghy had about 6″ of water in it! The forecast was NE3-4 which would be great for going home but like most forecasts this season not very good! We picked up the anchor at 1320hrs WeContinue reading “Sunday 17th September”

We decided a meal out would be nice so we booked a table at the Pandora Inn in Restrogret Creek just a mile by dinghy to the WSW, there had been some heavy showers so we put full wet weather gear on and lifejackets to go down there, arriving on the pontoon in sunshine it seemedContinue reading “Friday 15th September”

We had been on holiday since the 9th of September but one gale had follow another and today looked like the first possible day we could get out on Elektra. Today the forecast was NW7-8 easing off to a NW4-5 later, the plan had been to sail to Fowey tomorrow but the forecast had changedContinue reading “Thursday 14th September”

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”