Category Archives: Sailing a Sadler yacht

It had been a wounderful few days but now with rain forecasted for Saturday we decided to sail back to Gillan. There wasn’t any hurry, HW was 1636hrs, so after a lazy start and a brunch I lifted our anchor and Vicki started motoring Elektra towards the sea at 1330hrs. While Vicki was at theContinue reading “Rain forecasted for Saturday”

That evening and the following day was a transformation, it felt like summer! After a good night’s sleep and brunch we lazed around in the cockpit for the rest of the day and late afternoon went into Fowey for a little shopping and evening meal. We met Robert and Mandy with their son Kert andContinue reading “Summer has arrived at last!”

After going home on Sunday, Monday came in wet and windy but the weather showed an improvement from Tuesday. I told Vicki and she ordered shopping for delivery on Tuesday morning. We had to be home anyway on Tuesday to put out the recycling and pick in the empty bins afterwards as we now hadContinue reading “Tuesday is better, we can sail to Fowey.”

After getting back from Scilly l started working but the weather had other ideas and my 4 days of work took 7 days to complete. The forecast was still changeable, and with the possibility of 12 days available, the Monday to Wednesday of the following week looked wet and windy. We decided to go localContinue reading “More time for sailing”

On Monday 1st of July we pulled up our anchor in Porth Cressa and were motoring out by 0800hrs (what l didn’t realise at the time was if l had worked out the tide correctly, we should have left at 0600hrs or before). But that wasn’t in my mind at the time, the forecast wasContinue reading “Homeward bound”

On Saturday morning when l looked out, the wind had picked up from the south, Elektra was now swinging over the rocky area at the northern side of Green Bay. “Tantrum” the Moody 346 was very close ahead of Elektra. Vicki and l had a brief chat about what we would do, we might ofContinue reading “We love Scilly (part 2)”

Ever since we first went to Scilly in 2009 we have anchored in Green Bay and being a drying anchorage the anchors are visible at low water, l have always been interested in how well they worked or didn’t in some cases. But it was the summer of 2013 which really made me think ofContinue reading “Anchors”

After a good night’s sleep l awoke on Tuesday to a dry overcast day. The first thing l did was row ashore for a walk on St Martin’s. After a good walk l got back to the beach, the sun was trying to break though the clouds, it was looking like a nice day 😀Continue reading “We love Scilly!”

After the last time we thought of going out to The Isle of Scilly in May the weather just hadn’t been good enough for long enough! Both Vicki and I love Scilly and are always looking for the weather to allow us to go but we know only too well that Scilly isn’t the placeContinue reading “Scilly take two!”