Anchored near @stmichaelsmount last nightIn and around #penzance todayHeading to the Isles of Scilly tommorrowLovely day of sailing, sunset and sunrise with a few other boats in the anchorage#sailinghannahpenn #sailing #sailinglife #liveaboard #cornwall #kernow #stmichaelsmount #camperandnicholsons #nic38
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Throwback to Hannah Penn's purchase, back in 2019 from Salcombe by @kathryn_crouchenShe has come a long way, now a totally different colour, along with many other things done in the past 2 years.#sailing #sailinghannahpenn #camperandnicholsons #nic38 #yacht #throwback #throwbackthursday
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Time to head to Penzance (ish)!
Before setting off this mainly looked like a big sail upwind as we were in a northerly wind.
After 6 hours of sailing and a couple of tacks, we found ourselves nearing Penzance.
It was lovely and flat in the bay, even quite some way out and made for some very nice sailing.
Penzance Harbour is behind a sil and at the time of our arrival the sil was closed (we already knew this). We had the option of using a mooring ball outside the harbour, anchoring outside the harbour, and using a different anchorage.
St Michael’s Mount looked like it gave good protection (and a nice view) so we headed to it!
You can see us approaching the Mount below.
The anchorage was rather windy, we were sheltered there with 3 other boats, one of them arrived with us, re-anchored a few times and then decided to leave for somewhere else.
We stayed put in the winds, charged up a bit with the wind turbine and generally relaxed.
(In this sort of wind a trip to the shore in the dinghy is not really much fun)
By the evening, the wind had dropped and it was rather lovely.
We wanted to break out the larger journey around to Penzance. We found an anchorage (Housel Cove) on Navionics that looked like it should give us pretty good protection from the swell and wind for the night and headed off!
This was an easy sail again only on a reefed genoa as we were trying to sail at 2-3 knots so we could fish with the paravane as we went.
Although we were ready for the fish, the fish were not there. Even while trying to sail slowly, you can see the bend in the rod as we occasionally hit 4+ knots.
The journey took only 4.5 hours and we found ourselves in Housel Cove which is overlooked by Housel Hotel and Lizard Lighthouse.
We were in the bay all by ourselves, and also had a beach that seemed to be mostly inaccessible from the land, so private for us!
We both got a little artistic on this day.
Kathryn took this very nice looking picture of the deck while we were sailing
Adam took this rather blurry, but perhaps nice to look at picture of Lizard Lighthouse at night from the bay.
Enjoying our secluded bay near lizard pointPretty sure the only beach access here is by seaNext stop Penzance, and then the Isles of Scilly#sailinghannahpenn #sailing #sailinglife #liveaboard #lizardpoint #cornwall #kernow #beach #secluded
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Back from a wedding, we wanted to get out of the pricey mooring that we were at and get back to anchoring, so on to the Helford river (a short hop across the bay).
As you can see on the track, we decided our trip would be far too quick, even only sailing with the genoa out.
So we did a few tacks and tried to get as close as possible to a beach where @brendonprince_ was having a little SUP (as he advertised on Instagram).
Didn’t manage to get super close to the beach, but did manage to get this little shot.
Over to Helford we went, maxing out at 7.3 knots with only the genoa (nice!).
The anchorage on the east side of the river was lovely.
Sitting here gazing up at the flags in FalmouthRelaxing before we start sailing again tommorrow#falmouth #cornwall #kernow #ukraine #flags #sky #clouds #sailinglife
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Been at a wedding in the past week, just made our way back to Falmouth harbour and Hannah Penn is still here looking beautiful.Here is the lovely moody sunset #liveaboard #sailinghannahpenn #sailing #sailinglife #sunset #falmouth #boats #marina
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