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A lovely sail down from the Exe to Salcombe on David K's trimaran Triskelle ahead of sailing across to Roscoff in Brittany. Spent the next day on a mooring buoy off Salcombe Yacht Club making a few preparations ahead of…
Back from Brixham to SYC on the Exe on Triskelle. With the wind behind us, it was a much faster journey than the in to the wind outward journey. In fact we steered a little way off the run to keep the genoa full and the…
David K kindly invited me for an end-of-season trip on his trimaran - Triskelle. The original aspiration had been to get to Dartmouth but the "on the nose" wind - the forecast southerly F4 gusting F5 - made progress a b…
Helping take Triskelle from The Turf up to The Basin in the center of Exeter. No real dramas but, my, are some of the bridge crossing points of the canal narrow when you are on a large trimaran. Unfortunately, I only rem…
With next to no wind forecast, we knew this would be a "delivery trip" under motor. And so it turned out with unusually flat seas and next to no wind. Triskelle's motor behaved impeccably and we picked up a visitor's moo…
After waiting for a day in Dartmouth to let strongish westerlies pass through, we headed west. With more westerlies forecast, we thought this would be a slow sail. And so it turned out - to start with. Sailing out from D…
Down from SYC towards Start Point. The aim had been to sail southwards towards Start using the westerly breeze. After Start we thought we'd be motoring towards Salcombe. But the breeze was picking up to F5 gusting F6 and…
And, finally, back to the Exe from Salcombe. The forecast wasn't too promising with northerly winds so we expected a lot of tacking. It was slow for quite a while after we rounded Start Point - from there to Berry Head s…
The long trip back from Roscoff to Salcombe. Bit of everything really. I'm not mad keen on dead runs and suspect trimarans aren't either. But the first 40 miles were goose winged (with the first 15 or so having a littl…
Up early to catch the east going tide. Enough wind to sail for the first dozen miles and then motoring sailed on to Roscoff. Too misty to go through the Chenal De Batz and we hadn't quite made the tide. A few more dolphi…
The wind was invited but failed to show. The tides were calculated to arrive but we didn't see much more than a knots worth in the Chenal Du Four. Once out of the lee of Ushant we got a tiny bit of Atlantic swell to spee…
On David K's trimaran Triskelle. From SYC on the Exe up to Stoke Gabriel up the Dart. Interesting nosing up the Dart past Dittisham at low water. The sail down was fun - F4 gusting F6 as forecast with maybe only one squa…
Across from Camaret to Brest. The weatehr was mizzly and murky with visibility of about a mile. As it was light winds and only about 8 miles, we motored across the south side of the Goulet De Brest. Brest is still a nava…
We had to wait in L'Aber Wrac'h for four days until we got a weather window where there wouldn't be wind against tide in the Chenal Du Four. With the tide turning earlier in the St Mathieu narrows than higher up by L'Ab…
As we left Roscoff the fog came down pretty hard putting the kibosh on our plans to go through the Chenal De Batz. Shame. So up round the north of the Ile De Batz and on to L'Aber Wrac'h. The sail into L'Aber Wrac'h was…
A sail across from Salcombe to Roscoff in Brittany on David K's trimaran Triskelle. We had been planning to leave to 4am but at 3am Prawle Point NCI were recording F7 winds. We waited an hour and the winds started to dro…
After deciding that we both much preferred trying to get the AIS fully working before crossing the end of the shipping lanes on the way to Roscoff, we decided to head back to SYC and wait for the next decent weather wind…
The plan was to get to Salcombe but the fairly strong westerly winds would have made the Start Point to Salcombe bit quite arduous so we stopped in Dartmouth instead. Dartmouth was "full" so we picked up a buoy in Dittis…
A wet and bouncy tender ride out to Triskelle in a F5 / F6. Then motored up to The Turf to lock into the canal ready for Triskelle's mast to come down tomorrow.
Down from Stoke Gabriel (via Flat Owers) to a mooring off Dittisham ready for an (vaguely) early departure the next day. Couple of pints in The Ferry Boat Inn.
Left Triskelle anchored and wandered round Stoke Gabriel. Saw the 1000 year old yew tree in the church grounds and then had lunch at The River Shack. Banged my head on a tree somewhat younger than 1000 years old while wa…