Just back from a lovely few days - a sail west to the River Yealm (about 30 nautical miles) in rather rolly conditions where we were the only yacht on the water, according to the watch keepers in the National Coast Watch lookout on Prawle Point. Then a day sheltering from a Force 7 southerly (a good time to service the winches) before two days of gloriously sunny weather for some long hikes along the coast path. Here are a few photos:
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| Saturday morning after the winds had calmed |
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| Walking out towards Wembury Point |
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| Surfers in Wembury Bay |
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| Looking back towards Wembury Bay and the entrance to the Yealm |
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| The Yealm |
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| Yealm Pool |
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| Good conditions for a trip up the mast |
Sunday morning started with some dense fog but it burned off in the morning sunshine for some more great coast walking.
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| Yealm entrance |
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| view from the Ship Inn |
The passage back to Dartmouth on Monday was entertainingly windy, though with a confused sea and lots of rain. A RNLI lifeboat - on a delivery trip we think - came to have a look at us before bashing through the waves towards Falmouth.
Overall a super week aboard with only one hiccup - our hitherto completely reliable electric outboard has stopped working. We managed to test it at a local ePropulsion agent and confirmed that the battery is fine so the fault is somewhere in the outboard leg so it'll have to go back to the service centre in Southampton for investigation.
