Category Archives: Sailing a Sadler yacht

Monday 22nd July After a restful day at anchor and Sunday evening meal at The Pandorra Inn. The forecast was for the wind to move into the southeast so we decided to move to the Precuil River which has excellent shelter from the east. We were thinking of sailing in Falmouth Bay for a bit but there wasContinue reading “Restronguet Creek to Precuil River”

Saturday 20th July With my work still on a go slow, I got the chance to have another week away on Elektra. The weather forecast was changing all the time with strong winds in the week, in the end we decided to stay local and have some quality R&R aboard. I had needed to top upContinue reading “Gillan to Restronguet Creek”

Sunday 14th July With no need to rush home and a lovely sunny day we stayed a while longer, picking up our anchor at 1400hrs and motoring out of the river. Not much wind so we needed all the sail to get her moving at 3kts. There was quite a bit of easterly swell running inContinue reading “Precuil River to Gillan”

Friday 12th July After a busy week at work the weather still looked good for the weekend so we decided to go somewhere local and rest in the sunshine. With the tide not being high enough to leave St Anthony beach until 1100hrs it was a lazy start. Once aboard we got ready stowing stuffContinue reading “Gillan to Precuil River”

Sunday 7th July The tide stream wasn’t with us until 1300hrs but we were looking to get back the St Anthony beach before 1400hrs because of not wanting to be late home with work to do tomorrow this meant going against the flow. We dropped the mooring at 0730hrs and motored to Cannis Buoy beforeContinue reading “Fowey to Gillan”

Saturday 6th July We had hopped to use the showers in the Yealm River but they seemed to have a coded lock on them which having anchored in Cellar Bay overnight we didn’t have the code, so we decided to go to Fowey for showers today instead of Gorren Haven. The weather forecast was Nil/Continue reading “Cellar Bay (Yealm) to Fowey”

Friday 5th July The plan was to leave at 0730hrs 1hr before high water, which wasn’t liked by Vicki as meant getting out early, I got first and went on deck to do some jobs. It was then I discovered a problem, our dinghy which had been left floating on a long painter was underContinue reading “River Avon to River Yealm”

Thursday 4th July In holiday mood with a few boat jobs to do, the weather was great so we stayed another day, the plan was to leave on the next mornings high water and go to the Yealm River for meal in the evening at the Ship Inn.

Wednesday 3rd July First rest day, I spent looking at the channel at low water and seeing the best places to anchor, I also booked a table at the Sloop Inn for an evening meal The River Avon has a level sandy bottom with good holding, is fast flowing up to 4kts, the ebb runsContinue reading “Bantham”

Tuesday 2nd July There was no need to rush away from Salcombe so in the morning we went ashore for showers and cooked food before getting back aboard Elektra. we picked up our anchor at 1350hrs and motored out and set the genoa for the run down wind back to Bigbury Bay. Off Bolt Tail theContinue reading “Salcombe to River Avon”