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We had a lazy start to Saturday after the long day before but once out we got busy cleaning up all that Scilly sand, nice place but so much of the sand seams to get aboard! The forecast was for a S1-3, we lifted the anchor at 1550hrs and having not been able to sail muchContinue reading “Saturday 8th July”

The plan was to leave about 0900hrs, the tide would be with us around the Lizard Point between 1448-2048hrs. I hadn’t been able to sleep very well and was up early deflating and stowing the dinghy. The forecast was NW4, W3 later, we were hoping for a nice sail back to the mainland. Vicki alsoContinue reading “Friday 7th July”

We awoke to thick fog on Thursday which cleared by 1000hrs. After a restful day on Wednesday on Thursday we headed over to Tresco in the dinghy for shopping followed by lazy pub lunch in the “New Inn”, in the pub they were saying that Lands End airport was fog bound with no flights. TheContinue reading “Thursday 6th July”

Around midday we lifted our anchor and motored out of The Cove, St Agnes and headed for Green Bay, Bryher. The sea like a millpond we motored in thought St Marys Sound, north across St Marys Road to Nut Rock and north into New Grimsby Sound. Being that it was 2hrs before HW we expected itContinue reading “Tuesday 4th of July”

The Isles of Scilly we the place we had been trying to get to since the last time we went in 2013 but each year the weather had other ideas. Now this season with our newer bigger yacht we were determined to go, the weather was looking good for the Monday 3rd July, I had toContinue reading “Sunday 2nd July”

Saturday I had scrubbed Elektra bottom as she was dried out in Place Manor, I also had a good look at the anchorage and the best places to drop anchor, took some transits for next time. There was a wedding at the Manor and we enjoy evening music and fireworks with front row seats! OnContinue reading “Sunday 25th June”

After the last weekend we were looking for a weekend doing nothing and not to far from Gillan. Tony and Sandra the last owners of “Elektra” had got hold of me though this blog and said they had her cruising chute which I could have . There mooring is in the Precuil River and weContinue reading “Friday 23rd June”

An early start saw us motoring out of Fowey at 0700hrs with a forecast of easterly 4 for our passage to Gillan in the southwest. But no wind again so out with the tiller pilot again and we motored to the Dodman Point, from there we sailed for a while until we got fed upContinue reading “Monday 19th June”

After a lazy start to the day we headed out of the Yealm River at HW, not bothering with the transit around the bar we just sailed over it instead with 2m under the keel. we set the sails and were sailing at over 5kts out of the bay, as we turned around the MewContinue reading “Sunday 18th June”

On the 17th of June after lots of relaxing and sleeping in the cockpit we headed in the dinghy down river to the other pontoon for the SSOA bar-b-q, explaining that we were on the quite pontoon up river. Six yachts had come, thirteen sailors altogether talking Sadler yachts and sailing though the evening. VickiContinue reading “SSOA Yealm Bar-B-Q 2017”