Day 9:

Motor sailed across Penzance bay to Newlyn harbour. Unfortunately very little wind so no actual sailing today. Good to have local sailors Carole and John on board.

Carole, John and I left the boat to travel home. I collected the car from Plymouth before heading home. Chris traveled from Suffolk by car and then train, a nine hour journey across country to join the boat.

So for the final leg it will be just 3 aboard - Mark, Derek and Chris.

Plan is to round Land's End tomorrow, up to Padstow for a quick break and then on up to Swansea to arrive Tuesday afternoon.

Day 8:

Started out early from the award winning Mayflower marina, Plymouth. Refueled and set of west heading for Falmouth. Skipper (Mark), Derek (RYA Instructor in the making) and newly qualified pot washer, tea, coffee and jammy toast maker and general deckhand (me).

Did a bit of sailing today as the wind picked up in the afternoon (finally). No rain, plenty of sun and a 3-4 S-SW.

Falmouth Visitors Yacht Haven was busy so we had to raft up to another Moody 38.  Joined by 2 more friends/crew (John and Carole) in the evening, ready for tomorrows perilous journey across Penzance bay. Full of pirates!

Day 6 & 7:

Laid up in port (Plymouth) waiting for fresh crew to arrive and for storm to pass through.

Day 5:

Short hop today from Dartmouth to Plymouth's Mayflower marina.

2 crew members leaving the boat, some strong winds are coming in so the boat is storm bound for the moment. Skipper to remain on board to do some maintenance and wait for more crew members to arrive.

The plan today and for the next few days:

They have just set off from Dartsmouth and are heading for Plymouth. They believe they may then be storm bound until Saturday looking at the weather forecast.

Pete will be jumping ship and so the task now is to find someone to replace him. We have a couple of leads and are chasing those.

The plan could be to lay up in Plymouth until Saturday, get some new crew on board and then sail down to Falmouth or Newlyn, then start the non-stop trip around to Swansea and hopefully be there by Sunday/Monday or possibly Tuesday (if they have to stop at Padstow/Lundy).

Any takers??? - give me a ring! - Su

 

Day 4:

From Haslar marina, Portsmouth, the plan was to stop at Weymouth but late yesterday afternoon Mark rang to say they had sailed straight passed Portland bill and were heading for Dartmouth. The weather was good and so they thought they'd keep going.

They arrived at Dartmouth at 1:15am and tied up after a battle with the river currents.

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Photos from the first day