Category Archives: Sailing a Sadler yacht

Friday 26th June My wife Vicki and I are getting fed up with day sailing, something normally we never do. By the time we have made the effort to get ready to go, driven down to the beach got the punt down to the water, loaded the gear and stores. Then motored punt out toContinue reading “3rd sail of the season”

Friday 5th June Not the best of weather for our next sail, the weather men were giving north west force 4 gusting 5 or 6. I raised the main with one reef before dropping the mooring, turning in Gillan on the engine and motoring out between Carcrock and the Dennis Head, l soon stopped theContinue reading “More sailing!”

Sunday 24th May With a good forecast Vicki and I had decided on a days sailing, with food and stores we were low in the water as we headed out in the punt to Elektra, our little 3.3hp 2 stroke just pushing the punt though the water. Out at Elektra with Vicki aboard the storesContinue reading “Our first sail of 2020”

20th May 2020 After an easy day at work I was home early, I suggested to Vicki to move Elektra out to her seasonal swing mooring on the evening high water. Vicki was happy to do so and we set off down to St Anthony. Out in the punt to Elektra, she was already floating,Continue reading “Engine sea trail”

On Sunday the 10th May the news from Borris was for the lifting of the lockdown from Wednesday 13th for all outside sports as long as social distancing rules were followed. Also we found out later in the week that staying away from home woundnt be allowed which kind of defeats the perpose of aContinue reading “Lockdown Lifted!”

From the 10th of March I got busy at work and by the time I could not get back to work on Elektra again until the social distancing for the Coronavirus was in full swing. With Elektra isolated on a mooring away from other boats and owners I continued with her work hoping to getContinue reading “Getting ready to sail”

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”