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After a quite night at anchor we sailed Elektra the 2.5nm back to her mooring in Gillan Harbour just on her genoa logging over 5kts on this down wind sail.

The plan had been to stay anchored the Fal River and sail home on Sunday forecast for had changed and it looked like we would have to beat home as will, so we decided to sail back and anchor in Helford River today. We lifted our anchor at 1250hrs and motored down the Fal RiverContinue reading “Saturday 21st April”

The weather men were forecasting hot weather and Vicki and I were keen to get out and enjoy it. Elektra had been anchored up in Carne Creek all the week due to a forecast from last week of east wind on Wednesday this ended up being a south-easterly and Elektra could have stayed on herContinue reading “Friday 20th April”

New 65w solar panel, solar control and remote meter by Morningstar Corporation. Elektra came with shore power, which is great if you can connect to it but being on a swing mooring we don’t have it, last season we found the lack of power a real problem and knew we needed to do something aboutContinue reading “New solar power”

The forecast today was variable 1-2 increasing SSE4 and S6-7 later. The plan was to leave about 1330hrs to sail back to Gillan, we needed to get Elektra back up in Carne Creek next week because of possible east wind on Wednesday, high water wasn’t until 1730hrs and we didn’t want to be to earlyContinue reading “Saturday 14th April”

The forecast was good for the early weekend but Sunday was wind and rain. we decided to get away as early as possible on Friday which wasn’t until 1700hrs once the tide had come in high enough for Elektra to get out of Carne Creek. It was almost a down wind sail across Falmouth Bay toContinue reading “Friday April 13th”

On Saturday the 7th of April we got “Elektra” ready to go sailing, it had been a while and I had forgotten which things needed doing and in which order! The forecasters were giving variable 2-3, we thought ideal for our first sail, Vicki took us out though the mooring on the engine while IContinue reading “1st sail of the season”

On Saturday we got “Elektra” ready to move from her winter mooring down the river to the sea on the evening high tide, removing the bow lines and setting up a slip on the bow. I had to rerun one of the aft lines so it went over the lines of the yacht next toContinue reading “Two days to cover 1nm!”

We are getting “Elektra” ready for the season and hope to move her from the winter mooring to her summer mooring over the Easter weekend. I put her sails went back on yesterday and I painted her boot top line, I also cleaned out the anchor locker which was not draining due to mud in the bottom. VickiContinue reading “Getting ready for the 2018 season”

I had a few jobs which needed doing up the mast. I am not scared of being up high so was willing to do myself but my wife would never have been able to winch me up there so I bought a Deffee Mast Ladder. So today was the first time I used the ladder,Continue reading “Mast work”