Day 5 - Land fall - St Mary'

Appraach from the east and south - honestly don't use this for navigation !

Ask anyone who knows, the key to making a successful land fall at the Scillies is the weather.
Moving in our last waypoint the winds were quite light and there was no siginifcant fetch. but we took the easterly approach as the piltotage looked more straight forward.
As we made the penltimate turn toward the north west, as the sky turned from red to blue, we were following at least two other yachts, running straight down the leading lines.

Moorings in St Marys

There are two types of visitor mooring in St Marys - onc colour for less than 40' and another colour for more than 40'. In the end -  and also fairly close to the beginning - we took a 40' mooring, to which in short order we rafted another boat onto, of the proper size from Deauville.
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Watch out for the harbour boatmen at St Marys - although they didn't mind charging us the full rate for a 40' mooring, when we moved on to a "smaller mooring" the next day there was palpable reluctance to provide a refund. Also no mention of a discount for the Cruising Association, even though we were flying their burgee and (defaced) ensign, which they one might thnk they klnew entitiled us, but we didn't.