Category Archives: Sailing a Sadler yacht

Having worked for 2 days, Sunday 14th looked a good forecast for a sail, the tide was high in the morning and if I timed it right I could go for a sail and get back before the water was gone from St Anthony. I left home at 0830hrs and launched the dinghy about 15minsContinue reading “1st sail of the season”

Next day, the 11th of April, I had agreed with Vicki we would load cruising gear. At 1000hrs I launched the dinghy and motored out to Elektra and climbed aboard, opened up, started her engine, dropped mooring and motored her into St Anthony beach by 1030hrs. Coming in very slowly, I let her keels groundContinue reading “Loading cruising gear”

The wind and rain had continued, the plan had been to move Elektra to her seasonal mooring on Monday the 8th of April but with the gales continuing I pushed it off to Wednesday 10th. I was down to St Anthony for 0630hrs to launch the dinghy, it was another wet day! The outboard startedContinue reading “Move to seasonal mooring”

The time had come to get the dinghy out and pump it up for the new season. I had made a new 20mm plywood board for the underside of the inflatable floor as the 12mm ply which came with the new dinghy 2 seasons ago had broke in half last year. The board keeps theContinue reading “Pumping up dinghy and running outboard engine”

After the last time I was aboard, it had rain non-stop for 4 days followed 4 days of dry weather which I had used for work, luckly it stayed dry one more day to allow me to bend on Elektra’s sails and rerun her sheets, next day the rain started again! Two days later duringContinue reading “Ready to sail”

Since the 7th of February we have only had 14 dry days, I had used 9 of them for work. There were winter jobs on Elektra which needed dry days to complete but with rain most days, I was finding it dificult getting them done and time is running out. On the 13th March aContinue reading “Rain, will it ever stop?”

I had arranged with the local boat yard for Elektra to be pulled out, pressure washed, so I could give her a fresh coat of antifouling. A fortnight before I had pulled Elektra back down the creek sides into deeper water to make sure she would float when the time came to move her. TheContinue reading “Elektra, comes out for antifouling”