Day 95 Apr 13th, Trelissick to Fowey.

 Light Easterly winds dominate. so a gentle sail today leaving straight away or we will be fighting tide all of the way. 

Breakfast will have to be on the run but with flat sea's that will be no problem.

Day 94 Trelissick

 A day ashore. A rest from sailing.  Exploring the Falmouth Estuary and in particular TreLissick Gardens.  And village.

Day 93 Penzance to Falmouth.

 Today's little jaunt is in two parts, This morning we shall nip across the bay and anchor off  Marazion. There we shall pay a visit to St Michaels Mount. It's National trust and very popular so we booked tickets.

The second half of today will be a passage to Falmouth.. 

Detail

Weigh Anchor at 1300 hrs and head S out of the anchorage,once clear Head 150° to the S of Mountamopus Cardinal Mark.

Then 140° to clear lizard by I mile.

Steadily round Lizard point maintaining offing.

Next course 060° past Black head,

040° to east of Manade Point Cardinal

Then 350° to Falmouth.

Follow the channel to Saint Just Red Cardinal and then the anchorage will be straight ahead

Day 92 Apr 10th St Marys to Penzance

 Slight change in the weather means we more on a day early..  Like now!

The Wind is N F5 but the suns out, The sea will be a little rough and the direction means we will be beating into it at first but more of a broad reach later on.

We will leave at 11 00 to make the best use of the tide.

Our main hazards are the traffic separation scheme and any ships passing through.  Wolf rock (fairly obvious due to very big lighthouse )  Then keeping clear of the outlying rocks off Gwennap head (the Runnel stone).  

Once we turn the corner into Penzance Bay we'll start looking for an anchorage. Possibilities are off Mousehole, Newlyn or Penzance. We could go into Newlyn  or Penzance (locked) harbours if there's space.

 

Day92 Apr 10

 Ok so we are nicely at anchor in Porthcressa. The expected N wind has arrived but not as strong now.  The island boats will probably still be running so we'll go visit some islands today.

Day91 April 9th

 As I mentioned yesterday, big winds tomorrow & Sunday.  There appears to be a nice W F3/4 on Monday which would be ideal for our next leg to Penzance.  

So here's the initial plan.  (We shall see what the weather gods do to change this)

Get Watanga well settled, maybe even double anchor in Porthcressa.

Use local tourist boats to visit other islands

Ride out the rough weather sat, sun

Early start Monday to Penzance

Tuesday visit St Michael's Mount in morning

Take afternoon flood tide to Falmouth  then see what the easterlies are like before committing further.

Day90 Apr 8th St Marys, Sf Agnes. and Ghue

 We are nicely tucked into Porthcressa which was Ok for last night. and probably the best anchorage for the N wind.

We shall move to the cove between Gugh and St Agnes today after breakfast then can spend the day exploring those two isles.

Weather is settled so no need for an anchor watch.

Looking ahead there's a strong Northerly forecast for the weekend. So we need to make a decision by Friday Morning whether to stay or run for the mainland.  If Porthcressa is too crowded we'll move on otherwise we'llstay a few more days.  

Further ahead there are easterlies and I definitely want to be in Falmouth before they arrive.

Day89 Apr 7th Padstow to scillies

 A long Journey today, but we have to make up some lost time. Not that Padstow wasn't a nice place but there is so much more to see.

So on exiting the estuary we head west into open sea. We shall aim to go round the Northern end of the traffic separation scheme and then run down the wind to the scillies.

Weather  (longships)  wind NW F3/4 sea state rough to moderate easing during the day.

Tides Hw Plymouth 1541

After picking our way out of the camel estuary and over Doom bar we turn to the east around stepper point and along the coast with gulland rock on our starboard side on a CTS of 253deg

This is pretty much it for the next 5 hours until we clear the TSS where we will turn south on a new cts of 192deg for another 4 hrs before skirting the islands and approach St Marys from the south and hopefully find a space to anchor in porth cressa.

Day 88 Apr 6th Padstow.

 Still here in Padstow The wind is dropping on Thursday so tomorrow we'll get out of the inner harbour, Anchor in the river and hopefully slip out on Thursday for another day of motoring.

We shall see how thing go but as it stands. The Scillies may be a strep two far .

We'll probably end up in Penzance. or Mousehole 

Day87 Apr 5th Padstow.

 

So we have a strong North wind. a North facing coast.. and a sand bar named Doom.  I think we'll stay in Padstow for a couple of days.

Welcome to RickSteinium  who now dictates the food consumption in Padstow. Great for Seafood, but if you don't like What Rick does your out of luck.

Day85 Apr 3rd Milford Haven to Appledore

 Quite a long stretch today across the celtic sea, to the place of my ancestors. My Grandad did a 7 year apprenticeship to become a shipwright in Appledore shipyard. He got paid / shilling a week when he started raising to 7 shillings a week by the 7th year.Weather.

Weather ENE F4 backing to the North later, sea slight to moderate, vis good.

Tide HW Midford Haven 1015

We leave at 6:30 to make the best of the tidal streams and should be sailing for 8-9 hrs.

Pretty straight forward navigation. and having set our course, trusting the tides to sweep us to the east past lundy.  Then just follow the bouyage into the anchorage and find somewhere off the lifeboat staction to stop the night. As the tide is falling when we arrive options will be limited.  Possibly ring the NDYC to see if we can get a mooring bony there.

Day 84 Apr 2nd Milford Haven