Category Archives: Sailing a Sadler yacht

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”

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!”

After a lovely few days at St Martin’s the forecast for wet and windy mainly from the west and the Neck of the Pool wasn’t the place to be. We discussed our options and talked about going over to Old Grimsby on Tresco but with the wind forecasted to go from west to northwest onContinue reading “Strong west to northwest wind forecasted”

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.”

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”

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”

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”

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”

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”