After Elektra’s survey in December, I had ordered items needed to complete work but being close to Christmas some of the orders got hung up, some stuff had to go back and some stuff had to be reordered. Anyway by the end of January the new guard wires were fitted, the extra solar frame bracingContinue reading “Winter work continues 2”
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Winter work continues
Though November I gone on with cleaning Elektra’s decks and free board, the deck has always been a problem to clean, with black spots engrained into the non-slip GRP decking, with the help of “Grunt” and stainless scowering pads I was at last able to remove the black spots. When Elektra was built in 1984Continue reading “Winter work continues”
Photos from 2024
Winter jobs
We had arranged for Elektra to be pulled out on the 18th October for the winter at “River Boatyard Ltd” Lower Quay, Gweek. I had bought new Garmin instruments last winter but couldn’t find anyone to fit them. Talking to Adam the boss of River Boatyard durring the summer, I found out they could fitContinue reading “Winter jobs”
Summing up for 2024 season
The winter had been wet and windy with almost no dry days and not much winter work done until the last week of January when I fitted Elektra’s new altered bow roller to hold her new 10kg Rocna anchor. Elektra was pulled out for a new coat of anti-fouling on the 28th of February forContinue reading “Summing up for 2024 season”
Last sail of 2024
On the morning of Wednesday 9th of October we motored Elektra in and dried her out on St Anthony beach to unload her crusing gear in the afternoon straight into my pick-up on the beach, this was bringing the season to a close. Before leaving for home with a full pick-up load I moored ElektraContinue reading “Last sail of 2024”
Last few days aboard this season.
After my day sail on Tuesday 1st of October Vicki and I decided to spend the last few days of good weather aboard until Friday. We didn’t get away until late and after dropping the mooring with a forecast of northeastly force 3-4 we found there wasn’t any wind to sail by, so just motoredContinue reading “Last few days aboard this season.”
1st October, day sailing.
With a few days of nice weather coming up, it looked like sailing again but Vicki couldn’t because of an appointment. So l planned a day out on my own. I needed to leave St Anthony beach before 0930hrs due to a falling tide. Going out in the dinghy into the sun it was difficultContinue reading “1st October, day sailing.”
Rain forcasted for the weekend
We had been aboard 4 lovely sunny days, it had been great but now the forcast had changed to heavy rain at the weekend. We decided it was time to go home, but with the strong east winds of the last few days there would be a big easterly swell running and with our seasonalContinue reading “Rain forcasted for the weekend”
Wednesday 18th September
After a lovely summer’s day in Fowey we were going to sail back to our favourite anchorage in the Precuil River to the southwest on Wednesday. The forecast was for east force 4-5 and east force 4-6 west of the Dodman Point. We knew that the wind had been blowing since we got to FoweyContinue reading “Wednesday 18th September”
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