We had planned to stay in Padstow for a day to fix a few things on the boat that weren’t quite right – and to have a day off - before continuing our trip round to Fowey on the south coast. However things didn’t quite work out that way. The weather forecast became worse every time we heard it. We’d touched on force 6 winds between Porlock and Lundy and that had been very unpleasant indeed. The forecast on the Wednesday evening before our departure was threatening force 8 and there are no sheltered bolt holes between Padstow and Falmouth. We decided to stay on for a couple more days until it had blown over. Peter took the train home so that he could get on with some sensible things but we didn’t have that choice. His taxi driver thought that we’d be stuck until the following Tuesday – and here we are: stranded! It is now Monday and the winds and tides look right for tomorrow.
Padstow has been a lovely place to get stuck, albeit a bit on the pricey side. The weather for the past few days has been wonderful, although not so good out along our planned route round to Fowey. A few other boats got stuck by the weather too so we had some drinking partners to commiserate with.
Hopefully we will be leaving Padstow at 1400 on Tuesday 22 July and arriving at Fowey sometime on Wednesday morning. We just have time for a last taste of Rick Stein’s fish and chips…..
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