We left Salcombe, heading for Plymouth, with
another light wind forecast, but, at least it was going to be an East wind,
what luck! We made such good progress west that we decided to skip Plymouth and
head for Fowey instead. Plymouth is always an interesting destination because
there are usually a number of submarines and warships in the harbour to look
at. As it turned out, we didn’t need to go into the harbour because they were
all outside enjoying the sun and light breeze like us. At one point we were
surrounded by four HMS warships, doing some kind of exercises, with helicopters
taking off and landing on the flight decks. At least they weren’t live firing
exercises which we encountered a couple of days ago off Portland Bill. It was
interesting that, while in the live firing area, we experienced a GPS outage
for about two minutes. Related, who knows?
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| Fowey |
We were able to sail the rhumb line and with just the outer genoa set
and the tide we were doing a comfortable five knots directly to Fowey. Fowey
was a lovely town and the sun was shining.
We took the day off and did some sightseeing which included lots
of Cornish pasties and Cornish ice cream. Many interesting literary and
nautical historical links were discovered there and enjoyed.
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| Fowey |
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| This pod of dolphins surrounded Gjoa in Fowey Harbour and stayed all day. |
The trip to Falmouth was uneventful. We are in a
marina for a week or so where the remaining provisioning and list of boat jobs
must be completed before we head offshore.
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Falmouth 01/06/2014 19:30 50°09.1'N 005°03.7'W
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