After a lovely night at anchor in Porth Cressa we moved over to the Neck of the Pool, St Martin’s, we love this anchorage which we normally have to ourselves, it’s another drying anchorage like Green Bay and good for northerly winds. Here we stayed for 3 nights, l walked a lot of St Martin’s,Continue reading “Strong northerly wind forecasted.”
Category Archives: Sailing a Sadler yacht
Vicki says we need shoping
After over a week in Greek Bay, Bryher, supplies were running low and with a some calmer days in the forecast, we planned to get over to St Mary’s the main island to restock. The wind was forecasted to die away on Saturday, l thought by Sunday morning morning the swell will have eased. WhileContinue reading “Vicki says we need shoping”
Green Bay for a week
Like l said before we love Scilly but there isn’t any around shelter for yachts with deep keels and can’t take the ground. The lsles of Scilly is the one place where yachts which can take the ground come completely into their own. In deep water your normally a long way off the little shelterContinue reading “Green Bay for a week”
Saturday to Green Bay
We had heavy rain, thunder and lightning around 0800hrs, but l am glad to say it didn’t last long. On Saturday at 1030hrs which was about 2.5hrs after low water l pulled up Elektra’s anchor and Vicki turned Elektra towards New Grimsby Sound south entrance. We motored north across St Mary’s Roads to our wayContinue reading “Saturday to Green Bay”
Passage to Scilly
After a sleepless night on Elektra’s swing mooring in East winds, not really ideal conditions to be aboard but we ran out of time yesterday. By 0200hrs, l had enough and got out, we had planned to leave at 0330hrs. The night was black as l got Elektra ready to leave, fitting her tiller pilotContinue reading “Passage to Scilly”
We love Scilly
Ever since we first visited Scilly by yacht, back in 2009 we had wanted to visit again and again and again! The problem was work always got in the way, with my max holiday 9 days from leaving work and on with it again. Then taking the weather and passage planning into consideration, it quiteContinue reading “We love Scilly”
Get homeitus
We used to suffer from “get homeitus” a lot when I was working, we were hoping now I have finally retired, that I wouldn’t get it anymore! But Vicki needed to be home by the 11th of June for her NHS treatment and with the forecast, it looked like, going west would be impossible untilContinue reading “Get homeitus”
The day between passages
On Tuesday the forecast was wet and windy, heavy rain in the morning but had cleared away by 1100hrs, but the wind continued to blow. We had arranged to meet up with a friend “Richard” at the Mount Edgecombe pub. Richard’s yacht was in King Point Marina, just across the river Tamar in England. OurContinue reading “The day between passages”
Now to get back home!
After strong west winds during the weekend, Mondays forecast was for NW force 3/SW4/SW4-5. The plan was to go back to Dartmouth and pick up Vicki’s prescription, and camping gaz refill and a bottle of rum. We left early knowing the tide stream would be against but motoring anyway, it didn’t really matter. It tookContinue reading “Now to get back home!”
New waters
Having been limited to a week at a time aboard, this had always hampered going to far from home, once we were 3 day sails from home we would always turn back. Although we had been to Dartmouth twice before it had been aboard our last “Gala” and we hadn’t got past Salcombe with “Elektra”Continue reading “New waters”
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