It’s not something l have done before, have a shakedown cruise halfway through a sailing season. But after the fire and Elektra’s rewire the switchboard was a completely new set up to me, like sailing a new yacht! 18 switches, only 9 were labelled. Rupert our new marine electrician had fitted Elektra’s rewire before heContinue reading “Shakedown cruise take 2!”
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Loading cruising gear and sailing
I motored Elektra back from Falmouth to Gillan Harbour after she had been rewired at the end of July. I was lucky to find an Marine Electrician who was between jobs and could do the rewiring over a weekend. It was nice to find out that the new eletronics hadn’t been effected by the fire.Continue reading “Loading cruising gear and sailing”
After the fire, what did we learn?
VHF, I’m not a great user of the VHF Radio, I did the VHF/DFC course back in 2006 and I listen on ch16 to the endless calls to Falmouth CG asking for a radio check. But when we had a fire, calling Falmouth CG was the 2nd thing I did after writing in my log,Continue reading “After the fire, what did we learn?”
Clean up continued.
I had used an old vacuum cleaner to clean up most of the powder, this finished the vac and so I ordered a new one online which arrived on Friday On Thursday the boat yard helped me get my petrol generator aboard and on Friday they moved Elektra out onto her seasonal mooring. On SaturdayContinue reading “Clean up continued.”
Following the fire aboard.
It was nearly midnight before we got home on Sunday night, the ambilance crew had very kindly offered to take us home from Lizard RNLI Station, and when we arrived I had to break a window to get in because we had left almost everything aboard Elektra when we abandoned her. There wasn’t any milkContinue reading “Following the fire aboard.”
Fire aboard!
Following on from the last post, we were on passage from The Isles of Scilly to our home port of Gillan Harbour, on the Helford River. At 1920hrs I had writen in my log the wind was SW force 3-4, slight sea, we were 3.25nm west of our waypoint off Lizard Point and we hadContinue reading “Fire aboard!”
Now to get home.
We had been in Scilly for over 3 weeks before looking for the weather to return to the mainland. With a weekend of east winds the Scilly silly season had arrived, St Mary’s Harbour was full and Porth Loo to the North had 27 yachts at anchor. We thought the time had come to leave.Continue reading “Now to get home.”
Other strong wind warning!
Having been in Porth Cressa for 2 nights, the forecast was now showing another strong wind warning this time from the East. The strong winds were due to come though on Saturday and Sunday, so on Thursday we moved over Porth Congor on St Agnes, this we thought would be sheltered from the easterly winds.Continue reading “Other strong wind warning!”
Back to St Mary’s for shopping
On Tuesday 2hrs before high water l pulled up Elektra’s anchor and Vicki motored her out. I took over and turned Elektra south over the shallows out of New Grimsby Sound. With no wind l continued south southwest across St Mary’s Roads and around into Porth Cressa dropping anchor in the shallows. We went ashoreContinue reading “Back to St Mary’s for shopping”
Wind and rain!
Friday evening after arriving in Green Bay the wind picked up from the west, and howled though the night, by morning it was also raining. This weather continued like this for 36hrs, but by midday on Sunday the sun had come out again. During the same period the wind had veered from the west andContinue reading “Wind and rain!”
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