Dartmouth to Fowey?

The wind has subsided this morning as expected and we are off further west. We have four days before we are due to be back in Dartmouth and the weather looks perfect for both directions. Watch out for us on this link. Looks like this link does not work. AIS (which is what transmits our position information) is not being picked up west of Dartmouth.

We passed an interesting French yacht going very fast to wind; La Cancalaise.

We have arrived safely in Fowey after a really good sailing day. We thought we were going to lose the wind, but it soon backed and picked up to 17 kts. Downwind sailing was the order of the day, and both Bob and Dave were excellent at this; it is not an easy point of sail. Eventually we had to take the main down and sail with the wind directly behind just on the headsail. We surfed into Fowey!

Tied up at a mooring buoy. Bit of a tidy up and off ashore in the water taxi to The Galleon Inn, which David remembers well as being in Salcombe!

No sooner had we tied up but a water taxi arrived (we hadn't called it), so within 5 minutes we were in the Galleon deciding what to eat. Picture below for next time...!

Here we are off Plymouth in 20kts of wind doing nearly 7 kts. Note we could not point towards Fowey (to the left on the chart with the X) since the wind would have been directly behind us (not an easy way to sail). So we headed on this course towards Falmouth, and then turned north west towards Fowey with headsail only.