28th July – Friday We awoke to sunshine and light showers and after having our own in the marina facilities, we discussed over breakfast whether we should stay one more night in Falmouth or head in to the Helford…
Falmouth
26th July – Tuesday The weather forecast for the next few days did not look that good so we decided to spend just one night at Fowey or we would have been weather bound for two or three days with…
River Fowey
25th July – Monday We both woke early this morning, although Chris was up first putting the kettle on for a cuppa before we went across for a shower. The night had been a damp, cold one and Carole…
Plymouth and the River Yealm
22nd July – Friday We arrived back in Plymouth at about 4 pm after a tedious six hour train/tube/train journey from home. On checking the weather and tides, etc. we decided we would get organised to leave Plymouth first thing…
Plymouth
14th July – Thursday As our rafted up neighbours decided to stay in Salcombe for one more night, they moved off onto another space on the pontoon just after 10.00, leaving us free to go when we were ready. At…
Salcombe
12th July – Tuesday A good night’s sleep was enjoyed by both of us and we were up just after 6.30. We got ourselves organised and left Noss Marina at 7.30. The wind was just making a few ripples on…
Noss on Dart
10th July – Sunday After a reasonably quiet night’s sleep, we awoke to a grey day and a weather forecast of strong winds. As we had now been on a mooring buoy for three nights, we decided it was time…
Dittisham – Cont’d.
7th July – Thursday (contd.) Not long after we got settled on our mooring, we were paid our first of three visits by one of the Dart Navigation harbour masters collecting mooring fees/river dues. Since our last visit in 2012,…
River Dart – Dittisham
7th July – Thursday Chris inflated our dinghy (Tender to Seaduction) on the pontoon so that we could tow it to Dittisham. This is quite difficult if we have to do this out on the water. Once inflated Carole helped…
Brixham
6th July – Wednesday We sorted ourselves out first thing Wednesday morning ready to catch the 10:00 bridge opening. Chris calculated that we needed to be at the tip of Portland Bill at 13:00. If we got this wrong we could…
Weymouth
3rd July – Sunday We were up bright and early and left Poole Quay at 09:00 to be at the No 1 Bar Buoy off of Studland Bay at 10:00. We were joined by two other yachts heading the same…
Poole
1st July We checked the weather forecast and decided things looked OK to move on to Poole. We topped up our diesel here as Yarmouth have a good pontoon to come along side. We slipped our lines and left the…