Kim Hollamby | The anchor swallowed

The highs and lows of cruising the Bristol Channel. Missing Link experiences them all in a few long hours.

Missing Link finds herself involved in a miniature version of Navy Days in Padstow. Plus who makes the best Cornish pasty?

Basking in the sunny weather of a ridge of high pressure but a little worried about the presence of a deep low to the west, the decision is made to take calm seas around Lands End to Padstow two days ahead of schedule.

A touch of R & R at the end of a busy week. MBM’s poet laureate introduces himself to Missing Link, and takes Kim to Alan and Amy.

Missing Link is escorted over the border into Cornwall, finding lighter winds but mistier conditions.

Missing Link indulges in a marina crawl around Plymouth, punctuated by a meander several miles up the Tamar to Calstock.

The NE wind doth blow but we shall have shall have a day dodging a gale to look at Devon’s pearls between Dartmouth and Plymouth, both along the coast and inland.

A F7 NE keeps us from our original aim of testing a re-engined Fairline 36 Turbo, so we decide to make the best of a sunny day by taking the late afternoon tide to Totnes instead.

A tale of two charming rivers and a most peculiar case of propeller fouling.

Stuck again! A S to SE F6-7 blow is slapping Missing Link’s transom in Topsham and the rain is back as well, but we hope to move tomorrow.