From Plymouth to Teignmouth – a new mooring

19/04/2016 / Bill / 5 Comments

Blue Mistress and I left Plymouth early on Saturday morning.

The wind was favourable but the tide was still ebbing at the Great Mew Stone . . .

. . . and would be against us until Bolt Head, where the tide would turn but the wind would begin to head us. Both wind and sea rose at Start Point and pushed us further out sea before we tacked back towards Dartmouth, arriving just over nine hours after leaving Plymouth.

Overnight in Kingswear, looking across to Dartmouth, then the following morning . . .

. . . with little wind, and joined by my son, we motor-sailed to Teignmouth, an amiable passage, arriving around 1400.

Monday morning, we have a swing mooring – and a fresh start.

(Images by Bill Whateley)

Back in the water!

31/03/2016 / Bill

Moving to a new mooring in Teignmouth in the next week or so.

(images by Bill Whateley)

26/03/2016 / Bill

Sunday morning

01/03/2016 / Bill / 2 Comments

Horizon

04/02/2016 / Bill

Horizon – Lyme Regis, February 2016

One morning

17/01/2016 / Bill

One January morning in Teignmouth,

A fleet in black and white

21/11/2015 / Bill

I’ve been using the ‘crop’ tool, trying to give the impression of a large fleet moving slowly across a frame where the only fixed point is a snatch of land in the bottom left hand corner of some of the images. Obviously a video clip would do it, but I like the black and white, the reflection of sunlight on the water, the contrast in the sails.