Solar charging

It's a bit of a grim day to try out the new solar panel...

New buoys

The new green-o-matic mooring system in action.
















Works brilliantly.

The Pontoon Bar at Pwllheli

We can't really say too many good things about the Pontoon pop up bar in the outer harbour at Pwllheli (see the flyer shown below for location or follow this link  https://www.facebook.com/Pontoonpwllheli)
Nice selection of drinks at reasonable prices, delicious fresh food and great company.










We've enjoyed two Saturday nights on the go, and it's a good thing  its not too far to row back to Annabella - especially with the tide with us !
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Great food and drink and a warm welcome for yachtsmen  - who could have thought of that in Pwllheli ? Our best wishes to young team behind it - you can count on our support as often as possible...

Not very nice here this morning!

Pretty grim here on board. No sailing and no work on deck - working out out how to get off...

Interesting youtube from the RNLI

The RNLI have been looking after the safety of mariners since 1824, follow this link to see their recent youtube video .
 
It'll makes you think!

Look at the size of these jellyfish !

These jellies were stranded by a neap tide in the harbout at Pwlheli yesterday (11 July.)
They are easily the biggest I've seen in the harbour - and no, we weren't using miniature oars !

No-one knows if jellyfish have a concept for luck, but as it was close to the neep tides they were covered by the sea again pretty quickly. They were gone by the next ebb tide - lets hope they survived okay !

Back in the water

Back in the water and off for a super day's sailing last Sunday:

Consistent F4 westerly all day brightening in the afternoon.
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Michael joined Annabella for the day and is definately the coolest helm we've had so far...

Following on from a series of setbacks this was a great return to form and we're looking forward to many more.

First time out in 2015

First time off the mooring this year and we're joined by Sue and Neal to see how the winter work has turned out.

All the mechanical work has turned out very well, and she handles like a different boat - one that's much easier to manouvre ! All of Tony  Evans' very hard work has paid off, so hats off to him.

Leading all lines to the cokcpit works quite well, the only snag was that one of the reefing lines is a bit too short.. but soon rectified

All in all, I'm declaring a success !

The harbinger of a clear morning

About 1900 the wind dropped and the sky cleared, with this glorious sunset a little later. Looking forward to a clear day tomorrow and taking Annabella off her mooring for the first time thins year.

C for Charlie...

Unfortunately the bad weather had prevented us from visiting Annabella for a few weeks, but it had given us chance to get hold of code flag Charlie. The first workable weekend of the year has give us chance to fly it from the messenger pennant, in solidarity with the action of members of the French sailing community - see the previous post below.
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Unfortunately it became sadly appropriate as events unfolded and the lunacy continued...