Category Archives: Sailing a Sadler yacht

The forecast was poor weather for the planed 2 weeks out of the water, on the 24th of February I phoned Anthony our engineer to ask what he thought, his reply was “go for it, you cant take any notice of these weather men!” So on the 26th Elektra was pulled out at Sailaway, StContinue reading “Out of the water Feb 26th- Mar 10th”

With Elektra moved from her winter mooring, it was time for me to pull winter mooring anchors out of the mud and pick up her lines. While I was there Anthony our engineer came along in his loader tractor heading to Elektra to remove her old Bukh engine. I had to go to work afterContinue reading “Meanwhile later the same day”

I had arranged with the local boat yard to have Elektra pulled out to allow her to be re-engined, her old Bukh DV20 seemed to be still running well but was over 36 years, time for a change. The tide was a problem, not really high enough to float Elektra and get her down theContinue reading “Elektra moved”

Elektra had almost been untouched since laying her up on her winter mooring last October because of the wet and windy weather. With the season just around the corner it was time to start. First just was to clean as much of the green off her top sides and scrub the mud off her bottom.Continue reading “Starting on this winter’s work”

January. Starting on the winter jobs. February. Fitting new coax and antenna. March. Drying out on St Anthony beach to anti-foul and load gear. April. East wind meant Elektra had to be anchored in the safety of Carne Creek most of the month. Late April. First weekend away, seen here anchored in the Precuil River.Continue reading “Photos from 2019”

River Avon, South Devon. The sailing was mixed in 2019, Elektra was ready to go back on her mooring by the 3rd week of March. Our mooring is only available from the beginning April to end of October. With the beginning of April came strong east wind (our summer mooring is open to east wind),Continue reading “End of season summing up for 2019”

26th October The end of the season has arrived, with strong east wind forecasted for next week it was time to move Elektra onto her winter mooring. In the morning I took the anchors and the mooring lines down to Carne Creek to set up for later using thigh waders. We have two 15kg BruceContinue reading “Gillan to Carne Winter Mooring”

20th October I always sleep aboard a lot better than at home, I think its the only place I can truly relax and last night was the best sleep for a month I only woke at 1030rs to a lovely sunny morning. We had been the only yacht there overnight but 2 more yachts hadContinue reading “Channels Creek to Gillan”

19th October This was the first chance of a sail we had since the end of our holiday in September. We cast off the mooring in Gillan at 1215hrs with nearly no wind we were only logging 1.5-2kts SOG and I think this was tide pushing us east, we so decided it would be betterContinue reading “Gillan to Channels Creek”

Saturday 21st September The gale hand picked up though Thursday night and where we were anchored although sheltered the wind was dumping into the river and Elektra was acting like a snake swinging all over the place which gave me a sleepless night. On Friday I went by dinghy over to the sailing club andContinue reading “Precuil River to Gillan after the easterly gale”