The first half of our passage from St Ives to Padstow was very trying with a very weak wind, mostly following. We needed to set the spinnaker to make against the tide but the extremely variable wind direction made it…
Dartmouth to St Ives
From Dartmouth we tacked all the way to the River Yealm, where we moored on the visitors’ pontoon. The Yealm is a delight – well hidden from the open sea and with the villages of Newton Ferrers and Noss Mayo…
Starting Westwards
We filled in our time waiting for the new autopilot with a night in South Deep, a favourite anchorage in Poole Harbour and then a trip out to sea where we tested out the sails, the furling staysail and reefing…
Launched for 2022 but not on our way yet
We are in the water for our 2022 cruise. Over winter we had to carry out significant work in addition to the usual routine things. This included The batteries were replaced. We first replaced them in the Spring of 2017…
Autumn sailing
In the Baltic, the season is over at the end of August. But here there can be lovely sailing in the autumn if you can avoid gales and fog. We returned to Antipole on Friday 8th October and have just…