Sailing with Amy Clair

After a very wet sail from Fowey we awoke to a real pea souper. We won't be going anywhere for a while .

Back to Mayflower Marina again. Quite pricey at £42.60 / night but a good spot to pick up Sian and Andrew Moore for a few days sailing. Making good use of wifi to download lots of iPlayer stuff to watch whilst we are away. Also a good opportunity to clean the boat and to give the batteries a good soak charge. It's been more than a month since we have been on shore power and they need a boost ! 

O ur last day in Salcombe was a memorable one. Clear blue skies and warm weather was the perfect setting to go up to Salcombe Yacht Club, enjoy their excellent barbecue(and a pint of Doombar) and then settle down to watch the start of the Salcombe Yawls second race of the day. It's a very competitive fleet and cries of "starboard" and "water " rang across the estuary.  The other side of the coin is that Salcombe is a hugely popular place(for good reason) and the dinghy park is a thing to behold !

A real bonus today in that Salcombe was warm and unexpectedly sunny. A great way to start our summer cruising. Let’s hope the weather gods keep smiling for the next few weeks. 

We arrived back in sunny Salcombe on a beautiful day with sunshine and clear blue skies. Could have been Greece ! Here for a few weeks . Moored in "The Bag" on a visitors mooring . We are returning end of may to start our first major trip of 2018.

Crossing Lyme bay is significant. It makes you feel that you have arrived in the West Country Proper ! A very uneventful crossing fortunately no headwinds but we needed to motor for most of the way.

Our second attempt at leaving the Solent begins now ! Our trip took us down to Yarmouth then on , across Poole bay down to Weymouth to meet up with old friends again. In Weymouth we were berther immediately behind a Royal navy Training Vessel who obviously are as punctilious as ourselves about flag etiquette at dusk and dawn !