Sailing with Amy Clair

Time to leave again and onwards across the bay to Falmouth. It's well worth a visit. If it wasn't so far away we would even consider living there.

Fowey is a truly beautiful place and a great opportunity to catch up with my oldest friend David Horsburgh and his wife Diane. Some beautiful walks in this area too. A couple of nights , a day sail and we would be on again !

We needed to leave the boat for a while and decided on Mayflower marina in Plymouth. A good choice and their flexible berthing package was very helpful. It's amazing what you can see in the ocean if you look ! 👀

The Yealm is another beautiful place with great walks. We stayed here for a couple of weeks and went back to London but had the opportunity to explore the area. Noss Mayo is a particularly pretty village.

A somewhat complicated visit from our family. We sailed from Salcombe back to Dartmouth. Laura, Abbi and Tim then drove down from London and arrived in Dartmouth after the water taxi has stopped for the day.  After a very eerie crossing of the Dart in our dinghy they reached the boat well after midnight. The following day we sailed from Dartmouth around to Salcombe, spent the weekend in Salcombe and then went back to Dartmouth by taxi and home to Lightwater ! A lovely weekend but unfortunately the weather was typically English !

Salcombe holds many happy memories for Liz of very happy family holidays. It's now a very expensive place , frequented by Range Rover driving Londoners but in spite of that (and out of the school holidays particularly !) it is a truly stunning place to be.

We were really lucky to be in Dartmouth for the Royal Naval College Open Day - even the weather was gorgeous. The college is a fabulous building , steeped in history and is where Princess Elizabeth met the then Philip whilst he was at the college.