Category Archives: Sailing a Sadler yacht

This was our 2nd visit to this anchorage. Over the last 20 seasons we had visit Scilly 9 times, only once during 18 passages to Scilly or back had we stopped anywhere in Mount’s Bay, and that was after a bad CG forecast in 2013. Back in 2013 we headed for Newlyn after missing theContinue reading “St Michael’s Mount”

The night anchored in Gillan, started well with almost calm conditions, but during the night the wind picked up from the northeast and Elektra was rolling a lot. This kept me awake in the early hours and l got out when it got light. I made coffee and Vicki got out as well. We wereContinue reading “Trying cruising Elektra again.”

Towards the end of Monday the easterly blow itself out and a quiet night followed. We had been at anchor in the Precuil River for 6 nights. On the Monday the insurance came up with a settlement on my claim after the fire, not full costs but a good amount anyway. I needed to getContinue reading “Eventually the easterly wind blew out.”

We had arrived in the Precuil River after an aborted attempt to go to Salcombe, on Thursday morning. Because l was possibly suffering from post dramatic stress, l hadn’t slept very well after the fire. I felt well enough in myself but only with 2-3hrs a night the past month, l was definitely needing toContinue reading “Days at anchor!”

After being at home for 24hrs, we arrived back aboard Elektra in the evening of the day one month on from the fire. We had big plans to leave Gillan for Salcombe early the following morning. As Vicki stowed supplies, l stowed the outboard and pulled the dinghy up onto its davits and we gentlyContinue reading “Best layed plans!”

The shake down had proved to be useful. We had identified and drawn a diagram of some new switches, there were also some we hadn’t worked out but apart from the top of mast anchor light, everything else seemed to be working. On Sunday we went to St Mawes via dinghy and had a pubContinue reading “Just a few days and nights aboard an anchor.”

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!”

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”

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?”

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.”