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After a hard week at work I arrived home at about 1700hrs, I needed to do some bookwork, shower, load truck and have dinner before driving down to the beach. The earliest we could get out to “Elektra” was 2100hrs due to the tide, we could see her  bounding up and down in the northeast wind. Out inContinue reading “Stowing the gear for passage to Scilly”

15-17th June We are planning our summer cruise, with jobs building up we decided to spend the windy weekend doing them ready for our get away. On the Friday evening after work we loaded up the punt and headed out to Elektra, once loaded and stowed we motored her in to Flushing Cove and anchored off theContinue reading “Getting ready for Scilly”

The weather forecast for Monday was variable 1-3 with a northerly wind set to come in by 1600hrs but Vicki wanted to get back to Gillan and home not to late. This was a hot summers day even the wind was warm so just the best weather to be out on the water. So itContinue reading “Monday 11th June”

In the morning looking over the stern I could see the bottom an hour before low water, the aft had swung around towards the shore, I thought it cant be very deep. Checking with Vicki who was still in bed, I said I thought I could get down in the water and clear the prop butContinue reading “Sunday 10th June”

After 80hrs of work over the last eight days it was time to get out and use “Elektra” again, some sailing and hopefully some R&R which I needed. With high water not until 1400hrs the tide was not going to be high enough to get “Elektra” out of Carne Creek until 1300hrs, the wind was fromContinue reading “Saturday 9th June”

The forecast for our return passage on Monday was very little wind again and it was right! We stopped twice to try to sail but where only logging 1.5kts SOG with about 1kt of tide, so we mainly motored leaving at 0830hrs and getting back into Gillan at 1250hrs having logged 23.5nm. Being a nice dayContinue reading “Monday 28th May”

There had been a change of west country SSOA chairman, unlike last season where I was encouraged to arrange a Fowey weekend, the new chairman didn’t want it and would of stopped it if he could. I was asked by members to arrange another Fowey Rally this season but didn’t want to undermine the newContinue reading “Fowey Sadler Rally 2018 (Carter’s Cruise)”

This weekend there was a planned Sadler Rally in Fowey but the wind was looking a little light, the tide stream was with us 1345-1945hrs. Having waited for the tide to come in to get our punt out we stowed the gear and dropped the mooring at 1250hrs as crossing Falmouth Bay there was no helpContinue reading “Friday 25th May”

We would have liked to have sailed a little longer on Sunday but we had to get back to our mooring and into the shore via our dinghy before 1400hrs due to the tide, so we just sailed across Falmouth Bay in a southeast 3, 6.5nm in 1.5hrs.

  This was the highlight of our day out getting in close for a photo of this classic. There has been lots of nice sailing weather in May so far but not a lot of wind, another weekend just the same but we were going out anyway. The forecast was var1-3 and when we gotContinue reading “Saturday 19th May”