Sunday 12th October 2008
Fai Tira heads west.
The decision was made to go to Falmouth rather than go to Guernsey due to the wind direction which was South Easterly and light. It would have meant motoring for 12 hours. We wanted to go sailing so we decided to go west. We set the alarm for 4.00am and woke up to see not a lot, other than FOG, “Let’s go back to bed John,” I said, “see you at first light”. First light, 7.00am brought us even thicker fog. We waited until about 10.00am when the fog started to lift.
We set off now bound for Noss Mayo. The sun came out as we got to Start Point.
We had a lovely sail to Noss Mayo arriving at about 4.00pm just in front of another Bruce Roberts boat, actually sailed by two guys, one called Bruce and the other called Robert. How spooky is that?
Monday 13th October 2008
Fai Tira heads further west.
We woke up at 06.30am and set off for Fowey. The wind was in the west so we were beating down the coast to our destination. Fai Tira was set-up perfectly and she sailed herself at 5.5 knots towards the Eddistone Lighthouse. After a couple of tacks the wind dropped off and we started the engine and headed straight towards Fowey. It was once said to me that “Gentlemen never sail against the wind they use their engine.” We did this and the damn thing kept stopping. Bugger!!!! John decided the problem was fuel so he changed one of the in-line fuel filters. This seemed to do the trick so we managed to arrive in Fowey without any drama. We then changed the other filters and went down the pub.
Tuesday 14th October 2008
Fai Tira heads home.
We set off in the dark at 5.30am with me on the helm and hit a mooring buoy and damaged the self steering gear. Bugger again! I was so mad with myself but yet another learning experience. As the light appeared over the horizon the wind came up and we started to sail at 5 knots towards Dartmouth. John was on the helm as I was down below when I heard John shout “DOLPHINS.” 6 dolphins joined us for 20 miles from Fowey to Plymouth. My best dolphin experience ever. The amazing thing was that they responded to the attention they were getting from us. When we moved away from the bowsprit they started jumping out of the water to attract our attention again. This really raised our spirits and helped me forget the damage caused earlier.
We arrived in Dartmouth about 4.30pm just as it started to rain. Immaculate timing. We had a great trip and learnt quite a bit about the boat and ourselves.
Fai Tira heads west.
The decision was made to go to Falmouth rather than go to Guernsey due to the wind direction which was South Easterly and light. It would have meant motoring for 12 hours. We wanted to go sailing so we decided to go west. We set the alarm for 4.00am and woke up to see not a lot, other than FOG, “Let’s go back to bed John,” I said, “see you at first light”. First light, 7.00am brought us even thicker fog. We waited until about 10.00am when the fog started to lift.
We set off now bound for Noss Mayo. The sun came out as we got to Start Point.
We had a lovely sail to Noss Mayo arriving at about 4.00pm just in front of another Bruce Roberts boat, actually sailed by two guys, one called Bruce and the other called Robert. How spooky is that?
Monday 13th October 2008
Fai Tira heads further west.
We woke up at 06.30am and set off for Fowey. The wind was in the west so we were beating down the coast to our destination. Fai Tira was set-up perfectly and she sailed herself at 5.5 knots towards the Eddistone Lighthouse. After a couple of tacks the wind dropped off and we started the engine and headed straight towards Fowey. It was once said to me that “Gentlemen never sail against the wind they use their engine.” We did this and the damn thing kept stopping. Bugger!!!! John decided the problem was fuel so he changed one of the in-line fuel filters. This seemed to do the trick so we managed to arrive in Fowey without any drama. We then changed the other filters and went down the pub.
Tuesday 14th October 2008
Fai Tira heads home.
We set off in the dark at 5.30am with me on the helm and hit a mooring buoy and damaged the self steering gear. Bugger again! I was so mad with myself but yet another learning experience. As the light appeared over the horizon the wind came up and we started to sail at 5 knots towards Dartmouth. John was on the helm as I was down below when I heard John shout “DOLPHINS.” 6 dolphins joined us for 20 miles from Fowey to Plymouth. My best dolphin experience ever. The amazing thing was that they responded to the attention they were getting from us. When we moved away from the bowsprit they started jumping out of the water to attract our attention again. This really raised our spirits and helped me forget the damage caused earlier.
We arrived in Dartmouth about 4.30pm just as it started to rain. Immaculate timing. We had a great trip and learnt quite a bit about the boat and ourselves.
