by Edo | Aug 11, 2020 | Pre Lockdown Sail South West, Uncategorized
With the thick fog lifting to reveal a breathless beautiful day a very enjoyable 4 hour motor to Fowey ensued. Jamie was on his way down to join the boat with Si and Ado leaving in Fowey. Sure enough Jamie arrived around 1700 in fine spirits and after a revisit to...
by Edo | Aug 10, 2020 | Pre Lockdown Sail South West, Uncategorized
After waking up to a lovely morning on the Helford Estuary to the sound of water skiers, breakfast of Scrambled eggs, bacon, avocado and tea with a snifter of Capt Morgans we headed off for the short hop to Falmouth with 25kts of breeze on the nose. With good...
by Edo | Aug 9, 2020 | Pre Lockdown Sail South West, Uncategorized
Up and left anchorage 0830 bound for either Helford or Falmouth, wind NE 13 kts, sunny but cool, full sail, 6.0 kts. Another delicious Mitch lunch in the cockpit, pasta and tomato. Another dolphin show but with the added spectacle of tuna being chased! Arriving...
by Edo | Aug 8, 2020 | Pre Lockdown Sail South West, Uncategorized
Woke up to sun and gentle breeze. Civilised breakfast then off to the beach in the dinghy. After all going in the sea, the term swimming might be exaggerating, which for the hard core among us was.. fresh and bracing and for the snow flakes.. F…ing freezing, thoughts...
by Edo | Aug 7, 2020 | Pre Lockdown Sail South West, Uncategorized
Departed Newlyn in thick fog 0930. Navigated our way through the random lobster pots and anchored fully laden tankers to the tune of our sound signal, one long blast every 2 minutes. No wind. Hey…. suns out, fog lifts..is this the start of our promised heat wave...
by Edo | Aug 6, 2020 | Pre Lockdown Sail South West, Uncategorized
After studying the weather forecasts and various navigational options it was decided to head for St Ives on the basis of taking advantage of the forecast north winds on the return to make the Scilly Isles. Left St Mawes 0700 , mist and poor visibility. No wind. Fog...
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