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Day 6: Plymouth to Saltash

Day 6: Plymouth to Saltash

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We were considering heading to Falmouth for day 6 (sailing to a schedule), but started heading out of Plymouth, reached the swell and decided that was not the day for us.

We turned did a U-turn to head back into the protection of Plymouth.

Along the way a pilot boat can and did a little doughnut around us, letting us know there was a great big warship following us in, and that we might want to move over a bit.

We had said before that it would be cool to sail under the Tamar bridge, so we took this opportunity to head a few miles up the river to get under it and anchor on the other side.

You can see the track heading out, turning around and heading up river below.

We ended up anchoring at the end of a collection of mooring buoys on the northwest side of the bridge, which also happened to be along side a rowing competition of some sort!

As we were staying around Plymouth we had the opportunity to invite a friend of Hannah aboard for dinner!

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We had a pretty wonderful lasagne made mainly from tins, shipped Daisy back to shore rather late and settled in for the night.

Day 5: Salcombe to Plymouth

Day 5: Salcombe to Plymouth

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Another route that we have sailed before, so planning was relatively easy here.

The track was around 20 nautical miles and we only motored in and out of the rivers at either end. We managed to average 5 knots (one of our fastest voyages to date) and actually hit 9.3 knots while under sail.

We anchored on the western side of the estuary, outside the breakwater near Cawsand. (We were on the east side during our last visit)

Headed into shore on the dinghy with some dinner that we made on the boat and ate it in the sun!

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Day 3: Dartmouth to Salcombe

Day 3: Dartmouth to Salcombe

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We spent day 2 in Dartmouth on the DC visitor pontoon generally getting ready for a sail (mostly stowing the many things we brought onto the boat on the last day on land).

We also fitted the blades to the wind turbine so that we could start generating a bit more power!

Kathryn up the mast fitting wind turbine blades

On day 3 it was quite light wind, but we wanted to get moving so we set off in the morning motoring but managed to sail for parts of the journey.

We also started fishing with the new paravane along the way and caught 2 mackerel just before approaching Salcombe.

We didn’t want to think about anchoring with the brand new anchor just yet so we headed to a visitor bouy and rafted up next to 2 other yachts.

Fresh mackerel for dinner, it was delicious! And a lovely night’s sleep.

We woke up in the morning and it was very flat.

Instagram Post (June 24)