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The UK Met Office forecast for Monday on
Thursday morning, from Predictwind. |
Off again, and as usual a change of plan. The forecast for next week is not good with strong winds likely on Monday and Tuesday and south westerlies thereafter making the trip to Land's end difficult and probably delaying me by at least several days. However, on Tuesday morning is seemed likely that there would be a window of very good weather for the trip from Friday through Sunday.
With approval from management (she is mobile again) I packed in record time and was at Milford by late afternoon and loaded the boat getting very wet in the processes. On Wednesday morning I went shopping and got some diesel, fitted new gaskets around the fore hatch, and did the return trip in about four and a half hours. I'll definitely be avoiding day trips to the boat.
Thursday it was a six and a half hours back to the boat by train, and some time to ready the boat.
I locked out at 18:00 two hours earlier than planned and am now at anchor on Dale Shelf, cooking a Beef bourguignon for dinner with another portion to eat on route Friday, and ready to leave at or a bit before first light, depending on when I wake up, I'll not be setting the alarm too early and I'd like some sleep in the bank before leaving on a long trip.
Head to Dale Shelf into a brisk headwind.
The question is where an I going, the forecast for early next week of a W or SW wind followed by NW precludes a stop off on the north Cornish coast. If the forecast improves it might be Scilly but, especially in high season, shelter from a SW backing NW wind will be in very short supply, or more likely I will end up in Mounts Bay for Saturday night, or if the forecast it to be believed an extra 15 miles or so to get around the Lizard to Coverack leaving a short sail on Sunday to shelter in the Fal.
Click here for the trip around Land's End.
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