Falmouth to Weymouth

You know the old line about "having too much fun and having to move on? Yes, that applied.  Hence we prepared for a little overnight run to Weymouth. After a final trip to Muddy Beach bistro in Penryn, a final coffee and cinnamon bun and a little lunch in Falmouth, we had to go. Amazingly, we had been 2 weeks swinging around our little buoy and had managed without a fresh water top up. Before you ask, we had showered each day and run the dishwasher - we just avoided using the washing machine and tumble drier. These Nordhavns have big storage tanks you know!

The route looks like:

The people who know the area will see that we went further south of Start Point than normal. This was because that would be a night time passage and there are just far too many pot markers inshore. Weather was kind, only a F4 and the sea state was slight to moderate, again no big deal and mainly on the stern quarter.

South of Plymouth you pass the spookily isolated Eddystone light:

It never looks friendly.

As the light faded and the moon took over a little cruise liner, the Europa, passed us heading for Cowes (or so her AIS said):

With the busy moon and the  reflections on the sea it looked way better than this mobile phone image can offer. One of those "you should have been there" things.

Heading across Lyme Bay the crew had to avoid a few pesky fishing boats. She is sure that they know when she is on watch and they turn in front of her on purpose as the captain had no such issues during his time at the helm. We then caught the favourable tide around Portland and up toward Weymouth, arriving around 19 hours after leaving Falmouth.  As a "bigger boat" the Weymouth harbour folks like to know of your impending arrival a few days beforehand. The crew has called them and given an EA too but when we arrived the spot that we were supposed to use still had a boat in situ. A Beneteau motorboat hadn't departed as planned owing to a sickly crew member so we had to raft onto them. Beneteau boats are not renowned for having a robust build so we went alongside very very gently. Walking around their foredeck to get ashore was a squeaky event and leaning on her guardrails was not advisable. You get a good reminder of just how sturdy a Nordhavn is.

Weymouth was relatively busy - three abreast behind us and four later on:

Maintenance news - there wasn't any. Sorry to disappoint you.