Day 2: Salcombe to Looe

Jordan Garratt

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!

Boat & Crew

Nauta

Marcon, Sabre 27’

Jim

First Mate

Jorj Ives

Captain

Jordan Garratt

Owner