The plan was to leave Fowey back to Gillan with the good forecast of north-northwest force 4 on Tuesday as the weather for Wenesday was nil wind before the coming Low set to come in on Thursday, southwesterly force 5 gusting 7 with heavy rain. As our passage is in a southwesterly direction to Gillan,Continue reading “Fowey to Gillan before the Low”
Category Archives: Sailing a Sadler yacht
Love being at anchor
After a lovely night at anchor during north-northwest wind in Polgwyn Cove (good shelter NW-NE winds, but swell can increase from NE). Friends Robert and Mandy in their Sadler 34, were sailing east from Falmouth today and planned to join us in Polgwyn Cove, Robert said his eta was 1400hrs. It was will I wasContinue reading “Love being at anchor”
Time for more sailing
With the time availible for more sailing the plan had been to get Elektra loaded with water, diesel and new camping gaz bottle Friday morning over high water before I had some work to finish. We had problems with the outboard the last time we were aboard when I thought I had flooded it, itContinue reading “Time for more sailing”
Now to bring Elektra home
On Thursday 30th of May Vicki dropped me back in Fowey with a bag of clothes, water proofs and some stores. I also had 5lts of coolant, when l then dropped into the Harbour Masters office to pay for 2 more nights, Elektra had arrived last Friday and l was going to sail her homeContinue reading “Now to bring Elektra home”
Fowey SSOA Rally
The Sadler and Starlight Owners Association Rally was set for the bank holiday weekend 25-27th May, Vicki was going to be away with family and I was thinking of sailing to Fowey to the rally if I could get all my work done in time. Apart from a few problems with my brush cutter, IContinue reading “Fowey SSOA Rally”
Sailing or drifting, that’s the question?
Now Elektra was back on her mooring, l wanted to go sailing again, so on Sunday l was out early and down to St Anthony before the tide went out, it was a lovely day but the forecast was for light winds. At around 0845hrs I pulled up her mainsail on the mooring before mooringContinue reading “Sailing or drifting, that’s the question?”
Day sailing
After our plans to go to Scilly were aborted because of a bad forecast, we had come back from a weekend away and moored Elektra on her gale/east wind trot mooring in Carne Creek. The forecast turned out to be wrong, there had only been one windy wet day not the three-to four days. ButContinue reading “Day sailing”
Planning for Scilly
With a possible weeks holiday coming up, I started looking at the forecast for where we could sail, the more I looked the better the weather looked to go out to Scilly. We hadn’t ever made it out to Scilly in May before, at work grass was slowing after 2 weeks of dry weather andContinue reading “Planning for Scilly”
If I go south, will it be warm?
On Friday 3rd of May I was able to get out for another sail. I was limited by the fact I needed to be back in Gillan before 1400hrs so I could move Elektra onto her gale/east wind mooring in Carne Creek because of forecasted strong easterly winds on Saturday. So I thought, if IContinue reading “If I go south, will it be warm?”
Getting the best out of sailing
Ever since I learnt to sail 52 years ago, I have loved sailing. Having only ever had one sailing lesson about 3 years after staring (I never had the time or money to pay for more), I have always thought as myself as still learning. I haven’t ever been into racing sailboats but have crewedContinue reading “Getting the best out of sailing”
Love Sailing 