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As you will know by now , if you’ve been reading, this is an unsanitised version of events on this trip. It was actually a quiet and peaceful night. Until about 0700 hrs. The events of yesterday had tired us and when we heard thunder and lightning and torrential rain, it felt good to beContinue reading “Tuesday 19 July. St Helens pool. 100 m !?”

A bright start. Our plan is to leave 0930 ish at high tide and go to St Helens pool which is about a mile away. One of the main reasons for that choice is that it’s an anchorage that is protected in all virtually all wind directions and in the middle of the night, there’sContinue reading “Monday 18 July. Porth Seal to St Helens pool.1.1 nm”

It was a pretty roly anchorage . Protected from the wind but there was a lot of swell in the bay. However we’ve known worse! I have half a dozen foam squares which I stuff into the cupboards to stop as much rattling as possible in roly conditions. Plates banging against cupboard doors for instanceContinue reading “Sunday 17 July. Bread and cheese cove to Tean Sound. Scilly. 5 nm”

Apologies for zero pictures for the last few days…., we are anchored in Scilly and there is enough 4g occasionally to publish my blog, but not enough to upload photos. I’ll do it as soon as I can ! 🤗 Sue x

J got up early to go to the coop for a paper, some croissants and some Cornish pasties for our lunch on passage. I went down the pontoon to say bye to Charlie and Don who we’d met yesterday… they happen to be the next door neighbors of our great friends Debbie and Bruce fromContinue reading “Saturday 16 July. Newlyn to Bread and Cheese cove, Scilly. 31 nm”

So having been told that the fishing boat was going out at 0500, we had attached ourselves to our other neighbour who was going at 0600. Of course when we got up at 0530, “ Girl Pamela “ was well and truly still present! Released ourselves from Mr “ going at 6” and reattached theContinue reading “Friday 15 July. Day in Newlyn”

We let our big green mooring buoy go , and gently motored out of the river . There were many boats anchored off Durgan beach and we were sorry not to be spending another day there. But feeling the need to get west, we pressed on. It was a lovely sail up the coast towardsContinue reading “Thursday 14 July. Helford river to Newlyn. 31 nm.”

It may seem we are reluctant to leave this beautiful area! We got in the dinghy and went to the coop early to get oranges and lettuce! We were rewarded that the shelves had indeed been restocked overnight. Then to the post office to post a card, buy stamps and birthday cards. The street wasContinue reading “Wednesday 13 July. St Mawes to The Helford river. 5 nm”

A little overcast today but very warm still. We dinghied over to the little harbour mid morning to do some shopping, some exploring, and to book somewhere for an evening meal tonight. I’d tried to book online at the Victory inn, but some hitch with verification messages or whatever, so needed to check we hadContinue reading “Tuesday 12 July. Day in St Mawes”

Still very sunny but some breeze blowing. We dinghied ashore in the morning to get a few provisions from the spar and also some proper Cornish pasties for lunch. 😋Rather than bring the boat over, with all the faff of fenders lines etc, we filled up our plastic water tanks from the hose on theContinue reading “Monday 11 July. Fowey to St Mawes 22nm”