Dinghy cruising a John Welsford navigator on an overnighter to Cellars Beach episode two
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- Опубликовано: 27 июл 2022
- Arwen is a 14'6" yawl designed by famous New Zealand boat designer, John Welsford. In this video, part two of four, we sail from Kingsand in Cawsand Bay across the outer Plymouth Sound on our way to an overnight stop on Cellars Beach at the mouth of the river Yealm. Here we set out bow and stern anchors, cook on the galley box and set up a simple boom tarp tent.
I built Arwen over two and a half years in my garage and she was launched in 2010. Since then we have cruised the rivers and coastal waters of South Devon and Cornwall. You can follow our adventures at Arwen's blog www.arwensmeanderings.blogspot.co.uk or here on her RUclips channel where you can download videos or themed playlists / plymouthwelshboy .
In episode three we have breakfast onboard and then start the sail back to Plymouth Sound via Wembury bay, the breakwater and Drakes Island.
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Fair winds, good sailing, stay safe and see you out on the water sometime. Thanks for joining us on this voyage.
Steve and Arwen 
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Hey Steve, Your videos are the stuff that dreams are made of! Getting old? NEVER ! Keep on doing it. All the very best from New Zealand.
Thanks Pete. Glad you enjoyed it
As a child we often swam at Cellars Beach often seeing these small yawls sailing past. I love this review of Johns design.
Thank you. The navigator is a very capable and stunning little boat, but then that sums all of John's designs
Thanks for sharing your trip Steve. It’s so good when you can have the beach to yourself overnight and wake to the sounds of the sea and the boat taking the water. I hope your gear will dry out ok. !
Thanks Hugh. It was so hot it dries in 30 minutes 😄
Steve, great video, perfect moor position and blessed with the weather. She's a good looking dinghy and Ep 2 uploaded on my 62nd birthday so very much feel all you refer to! Good to see old and future stomping grounds so well filmed. John (R.Dart)
Hey John how you doing? Glad you enjoyed it. Hoping to get out again before Christmas for another overnighter
It's currently too hot in Florida for good dinghy cruising so I can vicariously enjoy your trip and appreciate the good quality videos you put out. Perfect trip. Makes me wonder why more people don't do this, but I guess this type of magical adventure takes acquiring skills, planning, and patience. This precludes many.
It does take all of those skills. The camping and navigation skills I had already. The tidal streams, chartwork, sail trimming and setting...a considerable work in progress with the nav bit going far better 😄😁
Hi Steve. Watching your videos is pure joy. I have a Willow Bay Shilling two berth gaff yawl in Birdham Pool, Chichester Harbour, but live in Bucks, so your videos fill in beautifully for the times I can’t get to it! Appreciate the effort you put into the production. It takes time to shoot all the angles without a film crew! Enjoy the summer. Paul.
You are most welcome. They are a visual diary for my 80yr old self just to remind myself I built a boat and learned how to sail it......in a unique fashion to myself 😄 but I'm glad others enjoy them. Thanks for letting me know. Episode three out next week
Keep the blogs coming boy-o, they're excellent. May also pay you to give Roger B a few sailing tips on open water sailing as he seems more at home in sheltered french rivers nowadays, or watching poor mary row as he steer.
Glad you enjoyed it. Roger is a master story teller, extraordinary small boat sailor and a great teacher through his videos......always something to learn and admire from a Roger video irrespective of wherever it is. Anyway look out for part three next week and glad you enjoyed it and tha is for the feedback.
It's always worth rinsing electronic kit in fresh water to get the salt out.
As you say it's probably dead anyway.
Great trip, great photography and production.
Arwen sails so very nicely. :)
Thanks and cheers.
Hi Kevin. The card was bombproof.....saved. The recorder kaput.......😥. I am always amazed at how stable Arwen is, how well mannered she is and how she loves to sail herself when set up correctly. She is also extremely forgiving of her skipper.....he's an idiot frankly 😁
LOL I think the skipper makes a damned good job of it frankly.
Now, let me see, why did I come here and where are my glasses? 😂
Be well.
😄 thanks, you too v
Great video Steve, that beach looked fabulous. Gotta love a trangia! Some rip snorting sailing there too- looked like fun. Thanks for the film, really enjoyed it.
Glad you did. It was fun. I don't get to sit out on arwen's side decks very often.......5.9kts was recorded on GPS.....I'm not quite sure when that happened but it wasn't sustained for sure
@@plymouthwelshboy I hit 7 knots coming down wind surfing an 18 inch wave in that last video I did - I think you hit Navigator hull speed at 5.5 knots? It takes a fair bit of wave assistance to get above that for sure!
I have done 6.9 ltd last year I was surfing, holding onto my hat and scared rigid......but it is fun in a masochistic kind of way ......7 kts plus.....wow wee......🤔😄
@@plymouthwelshboy oh yes, same, I was not at all relaxed about it…. Lol
That is my sort of cruising. I have just bought a Cornish Cormorant ( I live near Lostwithiel) and plan to do what you do next year in the Sound and Falmouth. This summer I am getting to know my new (1985) boat in the home waters of the Fowey River. Hope to see you one day and learns more about this particular type of boating pleasure.
I was thinking of a trip down to Fowey and up to lostwithiel and leryn.......sometime in August.......trying to find somewhere to launch and store car and trailer during peak season 🤔🙄
Hi Steve as I'm sitting here moored on a beach in Pittwater 1 hr north of Sydney in winter enjoying the peace and tranquillity , I am
Steve parke
Whoops something happened anyway I love the video and the English summer thanks for sharing fair winds cheers Paul
Fair winds too. Love your videos always inspirational so than k you
Oh to settle on the mud like that! Were I sail there are no tides and all the beaches are rocks. Lots of rocks.
Have you looked at an anchor buddy? Search for Joel Bergen's blog on the net and then his article on anchor buddies. Clever little bit of kit.......I guess it doesn't get around the issue of anchor caught in rocks but in terms of rocky shores with no swell or breaking waves.....it works ......
Hi Steve, that was a nice treat this morning as i temporarily ran out of jobs this morning on account of having not ordered the materials, it's one of those days when I'm struggling at the keyboard too so I took a break , had coffee and went to see if there was anything to watch on RUclips and hey !. One of the better spots to anchor in isn't on the beach but on the northern side of the channel and tucked up to the east of the bar....at least when the wind is northerly but it gets really lumpy in a westerly. I was looking at your sail trim problems again and it seems to me that you need to do a couple of things with that mains'l - first try and get the head of the sail further up the yard and secondly to get the halyard pulling the yard closer into the mast high up. The other thing just as an experiment might be to re rig the boom as an angled sprit boom to help control the leech a bit....sort-of like a vang does.
As it so happens I've adjusted the sails and boom a few days ago based on last week's trip. Hoping to see what happens tomorrow
I was just about to say, why don’t the two of you go out together to do some playing around with the sails… 😇
Hi Steve, Great video and lovely sunset views. I know what you mean about getting old... just got my first state pension payment but its not much compensation 🤣 regards
Thanks Phil. I'm not at state pension recieving quite yet......which I guess worries me even more 🤣
Don't feel alone Roger, at 72 my memory is expiring daily it seems, however I forget.
Thanks, I'm not worried particularly. The missus on the other hand....🤣
Beautiful place. I'm trying to understand the process of getting older myself.
The ageing process is confusing the hell out of me given I spent thirty five years working with teenagers 🤣
Just wondering, would an electric generator, water, solar or wind, be a good idea for a sail boat? Really liking the Jon Welsford, Navigator, from an observer’s perspective only. Wonder where one might buy a Jon Welsford set of plans? I too am 68 yo and feel myself dying, growing weaker, arthritis with the pain getting worse, memory…well, what was I saying?
I don't know anything about generators on small boats ...sorry....as for plans....depends where in world you are ......can get sent direct from John's own website. Sorry to hear about your arthritis. It is painful. My sympathies
Hi Steve, what motor do you use on Arwen? And how do find it?
Best Brad From NZ.
Hi Brad. I use a tohatsu 3.5 hp. I live in an area with a 6m tidal range on spring tides and some fiercesome River estuary tidal streams. The tohatsu is brilliant. It starts first time every time. Easy to service. Plenty of grunt when needed. Disadvantages...heavy and small internal tank and no external tank attachment point so you have to refuel on longer journeys hanging over the transom.