We intended to sail to Fowey on Sat 8 Jun, but the wind seemed to have more Westerly in it than forecast and this would have made it challenging to cover the 20 or so miles to Fowey Harbour. Instead, we sailed out to the Eddystone Lighthouse which was an enjoyable sail and afforded Chione a ‘shakedown’ sail to check that all was ok after her time ashore.

We spent the evening moored off Drake’s Island, watching the sunset and activity on the water. During Sunday, we sailed to the Yealm Estuary and up to Newton Ferrers where we turned and headed back to sea. The entrance to the estuary is amazing with the buoyed entrance channel being close-in to the land and the estuary itself looks like an interesting place to explore, but maybe out of season when it is not quite so busy!

Surprisingly, apart from the galley lever action tap (Fynspray WS62), everything worked as it should! As for the tap, once dismantled, it became apparent that the plunger tube had become disconnected from the valve body that draws and pumps the water. This should be an easy fix and I’ll put a small amount of thread lock on the plunger tube to prevent this from happening again.