Category Archives: Sailing a Sadler yacht

I pulled up the anchor at 0830hrs and Vicki motored Elektra back down River towards the sea, while l cleaned the anchor which had pulled up a lot of weed. By the time l got back to the cockpit Elektra was south as far as the Bag Pontoon. I took over the helm until weContinue reading “Day 7, Salcombe to River Yealm.”

We had arrived in Salcombe midday on Monday, in the afternoon we were both just happy to rest, l lowered the dinghy and fitted the engine. On Tuesday we went to Salcombe Town over high water, first we needed a supermarket for shopping, with Vicki not able to walk far l motored the dinghy downContinue reading “A week in Salcombe at anchor”

The wind had died down overnight and the new forecast was west then southwest force 4. Our original plan had been to go to Dartmouth but a sailing friend had told me it was Dartmouth week, would be packed out, so we altered plans to Salcombe. The tide was with us us from 0800hrs butContinue reading “Day 3, Cawsands to Salcombe”

The tide was with us 0800-1400hrs and with the wind forecasted to increase from westerly force 4 to southwest force 5-6 by the end of the day we didn’t want to hang around so we cast off at 0700hrs. We motored Elektra out of Fowey and towards Udder way point setting all the genoa onContinue reading “Day 2, Fowey to Cawsands”

This season has been a growing year and as such l haven’t been able to take more than one week away sailing at a time. I was determined to get two weeks away before the season comes to an end, at the end of October. So l decided to take the last week of AugustContinue reading “Holiday time”

The Sadler and Starlight Owners Association had arranged a rally over a few days. The plan had been to enjoy the first day of the firework competition in Plymouth on Wednesday, then sail to the Fal River via Fowey over 2 days for the second half of the rally on the Ruan Pontoon in theContinue reading “SSOA Fal Rally”

On Wednesday 14th, I had planned to do some boat jobs and clean the stainless steel work. The tide was in all day so no real hurry to go to St Anthony. I loaded the pick-up with diesel in cans and a gas bottle and drove down about 1000hrs. Parked in the best parking spot,Continue reading “Boat jobs and cleaning”

With more time for sailing we had planned to sail to Salcombe on Friday 9th August but as l watched the forecast the  weather looked poor for returning to the Falmouth area at the end of the week. There was also a SSOA rally planned for Wednesday evening in Sutton Marina followed with a sailContinue reading “Another week available for sailing.”

On Thursday we were sailing back to Gillan before the forecast of strong southwest winds on Friday. The tidal stream wouldn’t be with us until 1230hrs, so again there wasn’t any need to rush away. I pulled up the Rocna anchor at 1145hrs, it was well dug in and difficult to break out, it takesContinue reading “St Michael’s Mount to Gillan”

It was lovely hot and sunny and we were enjoying it. We stopped for 3 nights and 2 days at the Mount. A steady north force 4 blew through the first night-day and night again. We had anchored at about mid tide on Monday with 3m under the keel but with the gentle slopping beachContinue reading “Anchored at St Michael’s Mount”