Category Archives: Sailing a Sadler yacht

The day after arrival back from our first weekend away, Vicki was rushed to hospital for a emergency operation and has been in hospital ever since. This has stopped all of our sailing plans dead. Elektra has been left at anchor, but l am arranging a seasonal swing mooring for her, l am hoping toContinue reading “Sailing on hold”

On Friday 24th of April, after a four days of strong east winds, l had decided we needed to get aboard and move Elektra over the channel, so as to let us escape from Carne Creek before she would be neeped. We packed up all we needed for our first few days aboard and wereContinue reading “Some days aboard, to find out what we have forgotten.”

The day following loading Elektra’s sailing gear looked good for a day sail. The forecast saying almost no wind picking up to easterly force 3, there was a strong wind warning out of easterly force 6-7 for the following 5 days. Normally we would have gone aboard and gone over to the Precuil River beforeContinue reading “First sailing of 2026”

I needed to get to Elektra’s winter mooring by 0600hrs, so l was up early. Having driven down to Carne, l climbed into the dinghy and pushed off, the momentum was enough to get me out to Elektra without having to sit down and row. At Elektra, climbed aboard at the tied the dinghy amidships,Continue reading “Always a long day!”

The evening 18th April l drove down to St Anthony, and l motored the dinghy up the creek to her and eased the bow lines and pulled her out of her winter berth into deeper water, down the side of the creek bank. Because of my the high pressure, 1026, it had pushed high tideContinue reading “Moving Elektra into deeper water.”

I alway had a pick-up or trailer to get my punt to the sea, but having become an OAP, I put my pick-up on the market and it sold within the week, for a nice amount. But this had left me without any transport for the dinghy to the water, but we live within walkingContinue reading “Launching trolly to the water!”

When I was working full time, April and May were my busiest months of the year and so I always got our yacht ready for the coming season before the end of March because, if I didn’t I woudn’t have the time to do the work needed before June. Quite often our yacht would beContinue reading “Different Plans this Season”

By the 16th of March the weather was looking up and the sun had showed it self, so I spent Monday and Tuesday scrubbing Elektra’s bottom and washing her freeboard and decks. On the Wednesday, I did what I said I wouldn’t ever do again and that was to give her a coat of antifoulingContinue reading “Out of the rain into the sun”

Ever since the winter laying up period started in October it had been “wet, wet, wet! and by the beginning of March, I had only been aboard Elektra about 3 times just to check on things. So it was Wednesday 4th March, before l went aboard to check her out again and start on herContinue reading “Wet, wet, wet!”