richard.vie@icloud.com

Well the wind howled through the rigging through the night and never dropped the next day. We were apprehensive about leaving Harvard in such conditions in case the anchor dragged as we had seen happen to another yacht nearby so we decided to stay onboard. The other Rustlers seemed to have the same idea as […]

Richard was up early to catch a bus and take part in the Penryn parkrun https://www.parkrun.org.uk/penryncampus/ Anne came ashore at the same time and walked around Pendennis Castle whilst Richard suffered!! A brutal parkrun course, 3 times down a hill and up again plus another uphill stretch to the finish. Still he made it and

Inflated the dinghy; new pump much better than the old one, so pleased with it. Checked in at the harbour office and after being asked for a super yacht fee, managed to persuade them that a more reasonable but still expensive mooring fee was due for a 36ft yacht rather than a 36m one. Then

Left our anchorage at first light and made our way out of the estuary to find the forecast north easterly wind was blowing quite strongly and with full sail and the tide behind us we were fairly moving along at 7 knots plus over the ground. Gradually the wind went more easterly so to stop

No problem with the anchor so the first job was to blow up the dinghy to go into town. Unfortunately the foot pump broke. It was old and worn so no loss but it meant we couldn’t inflate the dinghy floor as hard as we would like which made it a bit like walking on