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The winter had been wet and windy with almost no dry days and not much winter work done until the last week of January when I fitted Elektra’s new altered bow roller to hold her new 10kg Rocna anchor. Elektra was pulled out for a new coat of anti-fouling on the 28th of February forContinue reading “Summing up for 2024 season”

After my day sail on Tuesday 1st of October Vicki and I decided to spend the last few days of good weather aboard until Friday. We didn’t get away until late and after dropping the mooring with a forecast of northeastly force 3-4 we found there wasn’t any wind to sail by, so just motoredContinue reading “Last few days aboard this season.”

With a few days of nice weather coming up,  it looked like sailing again but Vicki couldn’t because of an appointment. So l planned a day out on my own. I needed to leave St Anthony beach before 0930hrs due to a falling tide. Going out in the dinghy into the sun it was difficultContinue reading “1st October, day sailing.”

We had been aboard 4 lovely sunny days, it had been great but now the forcast had changed to heavy rain at the weekend. We decided it was time to go home, but with the strong east winds of the last few days there would be a big easterly swell running and with our seasonalContinue reading “Rain forcasted for the weekend”

After a lovely summer’s day in Fowey we were going to sail back to our favourite anchorage in the Precuil River to the southwest on Wednesday. The forecast was for east force 4-5 and east force 4-6 west of the Dodman Point. We knew that the wind had been blowing since we got to FoweyContinue reading “Wednesday 18th September”

The weather forecast was for summer weather this coming week, not that any of the forecasting had been very accurate this season! Anyway, we planned a few more days aboard. Vicki had an appointment at 1215hrs, so we couldn’t leave until after that but the tide would be out until 1300hrs. We were going toContinue reading “A few more days aboard”

With a few days aboard planned l needed to top up the diesel and water tanks. We would have gone today but Vicki had an appointment on Monday. I couldn’t get aboard until midday because of the tide time. I launched the dinghy at 1200hrs then carried the 50lts of water in 2 cans andContinue reading “Sunday 15th September”

It had been Wednesday when we last left Elektra on her gale proof mooring before the forecasted bad weather. Now on Saturday l had to move her back onto her seasonal mooring before she would become neeped, it was an early tide so l was down at St Anthony beach at first light and launchedContinue reading “After the wind and rain”

The forecast for the coming few days and over the weekend was poor, with the centre of a Low being in Biscay we would have easterly winds and rain. So we planned to head home before hand. The tide wouldn’t be high enough to get into Carne mooring until 1700hrs, so we went to StContinue reading “Day 12, Precuil River to Carne gale proof mooring”