Friday evening and just a few hours to go. Caskey and I have provisioned the boat today and done some sort of a stow. A couple of jobs to do tomorrow (bracket to stow the out board and a fresh water leak) and we should be set for the off at 1030 on Sunday. The weather is going to be atrocious - force 6 and chucking it down but at least the wind will be from the SW so we'll have a brisk but soggy run to Salcombe.
Stubbles on the water taxi pointed out something quite pertinent today - I've got my dates wrong and we won't be arriving back with the Red Arrows, well we will if I wait an extra week! Hey ho. Tamsin has just issued a press release telling the world that we're getting a fly-past. Oops.
Next one will be from Salcombe I hope.
Home at last
Our old friend 25kn of wind on the last day
Just to remind you you're not home yet!
Fat boat!
Up the mast in Fowey
The Fowey Lifeboat escorts us home
My brother Simon during his brief voyage Aberystwyth to Milford
Note our personal weather system
Salty sea dog in training.
Yeti takes us to Isle of Man
Ray, Bob, Pete and Me at Fort William
Salty Seadog
Yarg!
A really nice day out on the water. Peterhead
A puffin!
The pikeys move in, Hartlepool
How the hell did that happen?
Up the mast, Scarborough
Who put the Grim in Grimsby
Alongside Albatross, Wells 0500am
Thunderstorm
Chez Caskey
Oh bu**er. Broken again.
The blue thing is the rudder.
Gamaldansk not in the water again
Actually afloat!!! In Salcombe
The Good Ship Gamaldansk
'kin shiny!
After
Before
Logo
St Pirans Flag (Cornish Ensign)
Ere! Wasson?
Skipper Steve
Drinking and Driving??
1st Mate Caskey
You can stick ya spinnaker
About Me
- Steve Cooksey
- Been sailing since I was 7 when Dad taught me to sail in a home made Mirror dinghy. Now qualified to Yachmaster (theory) and Costal Skipper (practical) mainly thanks to my best mate Shawn Plummer of Fowey Maritime Centre. (www.foweymaritimecentre.com) So..? You gotta help your mates out!I work as a freelance Sound Engineer mainly in the corporate sector doing conferences and corporate events but this also entails some music and band work. Always varied and away from home unfortunately. I originally worked in recording studios starting with 70s band 10CC. From studios to West End musicals - Chess, Cats, Miss Saigon - and then to Cornwall to work as a musician before going back to being a soundie. I would love to volunteer as lifeboat crew but there's not much call for waterbourne rescue services in landlocked Launceston. A huge thanks to my wonderful wife Sally who is a) expecting our baby in October and b) encouraging me to do this trip even though it means I'll be away from her and home for a big part of the summer. And thanks and love to my great kids Nicki and Joe, of whom I'm very proud, for keeping me sane and making me laugh.
5 comments:
Good luck to you and your crew. We'll be following your adventure all the way.
A short discussion thread about your trip on the Scuttlebutt forum at YBW.com has raised a few questions.
1) Why use the Crinan Canal and so fall just short of the round mainland Britain achievement?
2) Your itinerary makes no allowance for gale bound days in port. What is your weather ceiling?
3) Will someone maintain a daily log on the web site for those days when you cannot connect to the internet?
Anyhow I will be following your voyage with interest since
Jonathan, yacht Perfect Match
Lots of luck to you both.
Have a fantastic and safe voyage.
Can't wait to join you in the Scillys.
p.s flypast shmypast
JJ
Weather's truly grim 'in the city' - I hope its better with you! I'm sure you and Caskey will snuggle up together and keep each other warm somehow!!
Hi Jonathan,
Thanks for your comments and good wishes.To answer your queries -
1) I want to visit a friend in Dunstaffnage at Alba Sailing School and the Crinan seemed a good way to get there. It never crossed my mind that I was cutting a lump off. Now that you've mentioned it I'm going to feel that I've sold myself short!
2) The itinerary allows for avarage 40 miles per day. My aim is to put in extra miles when the crew and conditions are up to it and miss one or two stops so I have days in hand. In hind sight I realise that I should have allowed one day per week as a safety net. But if we're late than so be it.
3) No. I haven't arranged anything. I'll try to keep as up to date as I can.
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