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.”
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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!”
Strong west to northwest wind forecasted
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”
Strong northerly 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.”
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”
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