Chill smooth sailing, with no destination. What a dream.
We set off at 6am from St Michael’s Mount harbour to catch the best of the wind and swell. We rounded the Lizard by sail at 10am, then by that time we were heading down wind, motor sailing most of the rest of the way. Dolphins greeted us as we entered Helford River, a welcome sight after 12 hours of sailing! Nauta looks very happy in her beautiful new Summer mooring.
Moving Nauta from Hayle to Helford River Day 1: - Pete captained the vessel, Jim & Jordan crew - Jordan got her first bout of sea sickness and was lethargic most of the sail - Jim also got sick but kept it together enough (poor Pete! 🤣) - We made it through Long Ship’s Passage at Land’s End. Pretty hairy with the swell and wind chop, but happy we did it rather than going around. - Stopped at the incredible St Micheal’s Mount harbour for the night. What a spot!
We set off a little later to allow time for a shower for me and new lines for the boys. Very very little wind all day, so decided to motor sail all of the way. A calm easy day until we were trying to find a place to stop for the night in the Looe area. We tested two anchor points, on the first we hit rocks and the second was very swelly. The last choice was the harbour. A very small and narrow entrance and the tide was dropping quickly. We hit 0.1m on the way in almost beaching ourselves in the middle of the entrance to the harbour. Instead we beached just next to the visitors section of the harbour wall- could have been worse, but not ideal and a little embarrassing 🙈 We tied off in preparation for the rising tide and after some calculations realised we had a couple of hours until we were afloat again. We tendered to Looe to get a pizza dinner before returning in the dark to tighten the lines and position Nauta properly. All is well, turns out it wasn’t such an easy day after all!
Notable items: Jim was very seasick We raised the sails for the first time We saw depths of 55m We sailed 5knts Jordan learned to tack When docking Jorj and Jordan jumped off to secure, Jim was left on board to realign the boat solo- sorry Jim!
A spot of evening practice before our weeks trip this week. Parents came aboard for the first time to see us off.
We brought Jim’s parents onboard for the first time, and set the sails ready for our first adventure next week.
Barney and Gail assisted us in setting the sails for our first time on Nauta We used the electric outboard on the tender and it was quiet and slow, used 65% battery to get there and back at speed 2-4 We brought Des and Jackie along to see Nauta
Barney & Gail assisted us in resetting the sails, it was wonderful to see them on Nauta for the first time. Des and Jackie (Jim’s parents) came aboard for the first time. They seemed really excited to be part of it.
