Sitting out a summer storm
Oct 14, 2021
4 minutes
My husband Martyn and I live in South Devon and have owned various boats over the last seven years and sailed mainly in Devon, Cornwall and France.
We gave up our respective jobs – I was a helpline manager for a charity and Martyn had a building firm – in April this year to cruise full time for a couple of years on our Sun Odyssey 40. We are on a budget so lots of anchoring is required!
Six weeks into cruising around the Isles of Scilly, a forecast for strong winds had been issued. We know the islands well having sailed here eight times over the last five years. The weather had been mixed and we had sought anchorages all over the islands
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