Autumn cruise, post 11

Lynher.

Well well….WABI’’’ is back in home waters. It’s a sunny, windy and quite cold morning in early October and WABI’’’ is swinging to her hook in Sandacre bay just inside the confluence of the Tamar and Lynher rivers. Home and Calstock boatyard, my home and the boat’s homes respectively are now only a few miles away except we’re on a falling tide and a brisk…

Autumn cruise, post 10

Early this morning, well before dawn, i hoisted sail again for what seemed to be the first time in a week, dropped the mooring i’d ‘borrowed’ near Cellar beach and started picking my way through the moorings in St Mawes harbour.  By first light i’d turned the corner at St Anthony’s head and had WABI”’ motor sailing as efficiently as possible to the east, towards Gull rock…