Delivery trip - Plymouth to Shotley

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Hi all
I thought that I would do a bit of a blog of the trip to Shotley.
Left Sutton Harbour on Wednesday with Dove's ex owner as crew.
Calm conditions so under engine.
Had a tea break at anchor in Hope Cove, just north of Bolt Tail.
I really appreciate the electric anchor winch.
Then on into Salcombe for a lunch halt and to wait for the tide to turn of Start Point.
Had a visit from the Harbour Master - we said that we were leaving soon - he then said "That's fine. No charge. If we had called him we could have gone on the town pontoon for free"
Off round Start Point with 2 to 3 knots of tide under us.
A bit rocky and rolly going.
More by luck than judgment we missed a few lobster pots that were being towed under by the tide.
Still not enough wind to sail.
Across Start Bay and into Dartmouth.
Now in Darthaven Marina for a few days waiting for my Son to join.
I would not have fancied doing that trip yesterday!
 
Good luck Clive. I boat my boat in Plymouth (by the Tamar Bridge). Having only day-sailed previously I just took it on that basis. We had a couple of days on the Dart too. Still wish that I had turned right to Falmouth which now feels like a long way away.
Hope that you enjoy the boat - I'd love one!
 
Thanks Roger.
I have had the opportunity to cruise west from Dartmouth for a few years when I had use of a 35ft charter yacht before I brought Sirenia
Got as far as the Scilly Isles.
I even had Sirenia here in the 1st year I owned her.

Yes I am enjoying Dove - so much more space plus the helm in the salon when it gets cold or wet on deck ?
 
Roger - I am now completely confused.
Are you saying that you have moved Tiller Girl to Dartmouth - or sold her to someone down here?
If so what are you using to do all you wonderful surveys of our shallow seas?
 
I have been doing some navigational planning while waiting for my son's arrival.
My original plan was to head for Weymouth from here but it works out that it would need an over night run to avoid punching big tides around Portland Bill.
The plan now is to hear for Bridport tomorrow with a reasonable departure time and then make for Poole with the tides giving us a good lift round PB - I am not planning the inshore route - Don't fancy wasting biscuits to check we are on the correct track!
 
CliveG said:
Roger - I am now completely confused.
Are you saying that you have moved Tiller Girl to Dartmouth - or sold her to someone down here?
If so what are you using to do all you wonderful surveys of our shallow seas?
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TG went south a few years ago... He should now be Sea Dog, his Mitchell 31 rigged up as a hydrographic platform!
 
I regret my arthritis beat me and while TG was in good condition I knew each winter it was getting harder and harder to do the fitting out and it was the time to sell her. She is in a partnership with three chaps who have taken her down to the Dart. As Larry (aka Glad's) said, I bought an old Mitchell 31 so I could continue to get around the Estuary. She is not picturesque; the selling point was the ex-MOD galvanised stanchions that which will keep me (and Larry) on board! She isn't fast - 9/10 knots if pushed but being aged (like others) we cruise at 8 kts which does increase our daily range. She is a good stable platform for the survey work, is fully enclosed (I was a bit scared of the laptop out in the cockpit of TG - rain, spray, feet!) and is now quite comfortable.

Sorry I had been a bit foggy. Quite odd TG going to the Dart. TG was built at Leigh-on-Sea - probably 500 yard from Roger Moody, initially kept at Thorpe and then sold to the Wirral, then South Wales and finally at Salcombe where I bought back to the East Coast waters. Now TG is back in the the SW.

I decided to keep the TG forum 'handle' on account of not wanting to be called a Sea Dog. Had an amusing call when I did the 2020 SW Sunk survey. London VTS called Sea Dog up asking what on earth she was doing out there; there is a spud barge called Sea Dog that does a lot of PLA work in the Thames! :D
 
CliveG said:
I have been doing some navigational planning while waiting for my son's arrival.
My original plan was to head for Weymouth from here but it works out that it would need an over night run to avoid punching big tides around Portland Bill.
The plan now is to hear for Bridport tomorrow with a reasonable departure time and then make for Poole with the tides giving us a good lift round PB - I am not planning the inshore route - Don't fancy wasting biscuits to check we are on the correct track!
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For a quick stop and an overnight sleep. I have found the buoys off Lyme Regis very convenient. Allows you to time your passage around Portland Bill.
 
Thanks for that suggestion John.
Now in Bridport and planning to take to outside route tomorrow morning.
Looks like a 7am start should have the tide under us most of the way to Poole.
 
tillergirl said:
I regret my arthritis beat me.
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I suffer from arthritis and have for over 30 years. This has mainly been in my toes, but is spreading to my ankles and hands. Recently I was recommended to try taking cherry juice. This has made a large difference and I can certainly recommend it. You need 100% cherry juice, not Sainsbury's cherry juice which is 75% apple juice. I buy a locally made Kentish cherry juice at £8 per litre and take about 200ml every 3 to 4 days. When I was away last week, my wife forgot to pack a bottle, so I went to a health food shop and bought a concentrated sour cherry juice. It seemed expensive at £18.99, but the recommended dose was only 25ml daily and there are 20 doses in the bottle. Give it a try, if you hve not already tried it.

For my round Britian trip starting at the end of the month, I have already stowed a dozen bottles of Kentish Cherry Juice. This should last me the 5 months I will be away.

Sorry, about the thread drift but felt it might help others compared to a private message.
 
Oh no! My wife adores cherries. For over 50 years I have been subjected to cherry jam, cherries, cherry yogout, cherryade, cherry this, cherry that (sorry about the spelling) . I decided I dislike cherry many years ago! Best I try then. But she will nick it all anyway!
 
tillergirl said:
Oh no! My wife adores cherries. For over 50 years I have been subjected to cherry jam, cherries, cherry yogout, cherryade, cherry this, cherry that (sorry about the spelling) . I decided I dislike cherry many years ago! Best I try then. But she will nick it all anyway!
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Glad to know you had not heard about cherries and arthritis, so worth posting. As you dislike cherries so much, then buy the concentrate as it tastes more like medicine than the 100% cherry juice.

If I do get a flare up, I take a combination of colchicine, cuprofen and and an ibrobrufun gel on the affected area. This combination usually helps clear it up in 2 to 3 days.
 
CliveG said:
Thanks for that suggestion John.
Now in Bridport and planning to take to outside route tomorrow morning.
Looks like a 7am start should have the tide under us most of the way to Poole.
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Probably too late now, but the inside route from Bridport or Lyme Regis is much quicker and easier if headed for Poole than going outside. Nowhere near as scary as some will claim. Forecast is good for tomorrow to make that passage if you time it as shown in the pilot books.
 
After all the Cherry talk back to the ongoing saga.

We had quite a rolly night with a little bit of bumping the bottom in Bridport.
Not much sleep was had
We off quite early.
20 to 25 knots of wind from the west which made for some fair size seas.
I really did not like the look of things off the Bill so we gave it a wide berth.
the timing was right and we saw over 10 knots over the ground for a time.
Got into Poole town Quay around 4pm.
Left again this morning.
A cracking down wind sail across Poole and Christchurch bays, round the North Channel, through Hurst narrows and up the Solent into Lymington.
The next couple of days look rather windy so we will stay here to let them blow by.
While in Poole I found quite a lot of water in the bilges around the engine.
Discovered a leak of sea water from a pipe out of the heat exchanger.
As it looked like todays trip would mostly be sailing I decided to live with it until we got here in the hope that we could find someone to look at it.
After making a few phone calls I found an excellent chap who came on board this afternoon and resolved it.
If you are in the area and need someone to help let me know and I will let you have his details.
 
Concerto said:
Glad to know you had not heard about cherries and arthritis, so worth posting. As you dislike cherries so much, then buy the concentrate as it tastes more like medicine than the 100% cherry juice.

If I do get a flare up, I take a combination of colchicine, cuprofen and and an ibrobrufun gel on the affected area. This combination usually helps clear it up in 2 to 3 days.
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I love cherries in season and my regret is that they are so expensive. When we were sailing in Germany and Poland we bought them cheap by the bucket-load. We were less successful in Sweden where we met a Swede with a much larger HR than ours. He wanted to pick my brains about 'tides' which were a mystery to him, and invited us for that evening for coffee and fruit. In the middle of the saloon table was a large bowl of cherries. After coffee and my giving him a tutorial about tides we were dismissed, without so much as a nibble at the cherries we had been staring at for the last hour or two.
 
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