Chilling in Falmouth
ULA
John & Jackie Richards
Sat 2 Aug 2008 14:37
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Position 050:09.285N 005:03.906W
After another wild and windy sail from Fowey to
Falmouth on Friday the crew are having a morning doing the mundane stuff of
laundry, provisioning, boat tidying and just generallly chilling out (or buying
clothes in Laura's case!). Given the forecasts at the moment we have shelved the
idea of heading straight for Northern Spain and are planning to go via Brittany
(probably Camaret) instead. Original plan was to go tomorrow but the wind
appears to be veering more Westerley earlier than predicted and we are therefore
going to set off late this afternoon. By coincidence we are moored up alongside
another ARC boat, Libertad, and had a beer with her crew, Paul and Jake, in The
Chain Locker pub in Falmouth last night. We will probably leave together. All
talk in the marina is of the weather conditions, forecasts etc with other boats
coming in from Newlyn and Isles of Scilly telling similar tales of poor
weather. Another boat crewed by four German teenagers doing a delivery job to
Mallorca is also waiting for a weather window to cross Biscay but they plan
to go straight across to La Coruna. We have sampled the local Cornish
pasties for lunch which were excellent - let's hope they dont reappear later!
Our friends Tim and Helen in Girolle should be in Falmouth this afternoon from
Plymouth but unfortunately it looks as though we may just miss them again. Not
looking forward to the crossing to Camaret particularly but hopefully our next
blog will be from France.....
Jackie
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