Chilling in Falmouth

ULA
John & Jackie Richards
Sat 2 Aug 2008 14:37
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