Sailing in The Sound

I must be a glutton for punishment. Decided to go sailing today. The conditions were good, bit of a wind not a lot of drizzle. Only down side was it was a bit gusty. The wind was from the Northwest so I decided against my original plan of going round to the Yealm so that I wouldn't have to beat back into the slipway. The new plan involved going up the Tamar so it would be a run back down again. I had tried to get a crew but it was just too short notice I guess. As the tide was still falling it was quite hard work going past Devil's Point. I noticed that a traditional Wayfarer which had launched from the same slipway was heading in the same direction. Not that I'm competetive or anything but the race was on. Just got past them when I noticed they'd dropped their sails on a mooring buoy. Thinking that somehing was wrong I headed back to ask. They'd just  stopped for a cuppa. I set off back up towards the Tamar bridge. On the way back I made the almost fatal mistake of trying to go forward in the boat while on a run. The boom gybed and I got a solid whack from it as it crashed across the boat. As I was on my own I didn't have a chance to sit and moan. At one point I did thick I might pass out with the concussion or something. Didn't have a headache just a bruise. Gods I felt like a prat making such a basic mistake.

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Astra gone.

I have now got rid of the Astra estate car. It was still a runner but I just wasn't prepared to put up with the intermitent fault reported by the engine management system. Every now and again it would refuse to rev up. The person who had installed the dual fuel stuff and sold it to me, had already removed the cooking oil system before helping me to get it the scrap yard. I could probably have got more than the £160 received if I had broken it up myself but that would make a mess and take too long.  Now down to 1 vehicle at the property.

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