Day 6 - Tornado on a Diet

Pot Noodles again

Higher up Helford River trying to find a mooring. 

Beautiful Old Cutter

 Day 6

Fowey to Helford River. 

Woke again nice and early with the sun. Spent a couple of hours drying and repacking the bags on the small pontoon. Ray lent us his dingy again and we rowed in. 20p toilet visit with a wash off in the hand wash machine on the wall!  We were almost as good as new! (Don’t believe it) Bought two new phone charge cables as we were having problems with our current ones.  Too much sea water in them!

Stopped at a bakery to pick up some oggies,  but were disappointed to find that they would only be ready at 11am. So we made do with 4 leak and cheese tarts as went and paid our mooring fees - £13.

Back to the boat and thanked Ray and his wife for their hospitality and use of the dingy.

Cast off and tacked out of Fowey. Fowey was a very good place to stop. 

As usual we were aiming for further along the coast and as usual the wind was not as much as forecast.

We discovered that the boat was too heavy at the back, so relocated two of the storage bags to the front beam by the other two. We then both sit right at the front of the racks. This gets the rear of the hulls up much higher and there is far less water noise.  

Lunch made us both feel a bit queasy as the tarts were greasy and we tried eating some cheese that had been soaked in sea water in the hull overnight and then heated gently in the lunch box for four hours... yuk. 

We did get a steady breeze that lasted all the way to Falmouth but then died. After trickling past a couple of survey ships at anchor (one was the David Attenborough - the other we did not see the name).

We ended up rowing into the Helford river mouth for about an hour then caught some wind and tried to anchor, but both times it did not hold. We ended up going another half mile up the river and finding a visitors bouy, which turned out to be the ferrymans!  Luckily the moorings launch did not charge us for use of the bouy. 

Slept under the stars in just the sleeping bags and bivvy bags. The Milky Way was so bright. 

Perhaps a faster day tomorrow???