Arwen's meanderings

Hi everyone and welcome to my dinghy cruising blog about my John Welsford designed 'navigator' named Arwen. Built over three years, Arwen was launched in August 2007. She is a standing lug yawl 14' 6" in length. This blog records our dinghy cruising voyages together around the coastal waters of SW England.
Arwen has an associated YouTube channel so visit www.YouTube.com/c/plymouthwelshboy to find our most recent cruises and click subscribe.
On this blog you will find posts about dinghy cruising locations, accounts of our voyages, maintenance tips and 'How to's' ranging from rigging standing lug sails and building galley boxes to using 'anchor buddies' and creating 'pilotage notes'. I hope you find something that inspires you to get out on the water in your boat. Drop us a comment and happy sailing.
Steve and Arwen

Friday, 9 May 2014

Sailing up the Lynher in a welsford navigator

May half term
26th/27th ............it's looking good. Low tide is 11am and high tide 5 pm. An incoming spring tide. So.......... I should be able to sail up with the tide. Low tide around midnight and high tide the following morning around 6am. So sailing back down river on an outgoing tide.

Now all we need are nice southerly winds which back around to the west or east on the following morning and life will be wonderful. Oh and lovely sunshine as well. That would help. So I have to start planning passage plans, inputting  waypoints on GPS and contact the St. Germans sailing club for advice and whether I cold prevail on their hospitality Monday night and everything should be hunky dory!

I'm getting good vibes about this trip.  And, the Saturday before, is the Newton Abbot boat jumble.

Perfect!

Steve

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