Tern's Travels

Pacific Seacraft 37

Vessel Name: Tern
Vessel Make/Model: Pacific Seacraft Crealock 37
Hailing Port: Falmouth UK
Crew: Larry & Manice Stabbins
04 July 2022 | Dingle, Kerry, Ireland
11 June 2022 | Cahergal Ring Fort, overlooking Valencia
11 June 2022 | On Sneem Sculpture trail
18 May 2022 | Dursey Sound cable car support
12 May 2022 | The Italian garden at Garinish Island
12 May 2022 | Live fowl for sale in Bantry market- you can buy almost anything!
10 May 2022 | Berehaven
10 May 2022 | Baltimore
10 May 2022 | Kinsale
08 February 2022 | Fishguard to Falmouth
07 February 2022 | Isle of Man
06 February 2022 | Tern at anchor between Erraid, Mull and Iona
27 December 2021 | Small Isles
28 September 2021
17 August 2021
12 August 2021
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04 July 2022 | Dingle, Kerry, Ireland

Dingle, Blasket Sound to Aran Islands

Dingle, Blasket Sound and on to the Aran Isles. 28 May - 1st June

11 June 2022 | Cahergal Ring Fort, overlooking Valencia

VALENCIA AND KERRY, 21-27 MAY

Valencia's main habitation is Knightstown where a large marina within a set of breakwaters was envisaged but never completed. The breakwaters make it a safe place to tie up but there are no facilities so the next day we went up the river, which is constrained by tide, to the marina at Cahersiveen [...]

11 June 2022 | On Sneem Sculpture trail

KENMARE RIVER, north shore. 19-20 May

After three days boat-bound at anchor in Kilmakillogue we were keen to move on so we motor-sailed NW in 15-20 knots of gusty SW wind to anchor in the N cove of Garinish Islkand in Sneem Harbour. It was still too windy and grey to make it attractive to go ashore but by the morning it was brighter [...]

18 May 2022 | Dursey Sound cable car support

Kenmare River

Once the wind eased and we could move on from Adrigole, Bantry Bay, of course, there was no wind and we motored the 15nm to Castletown Bearhaven to provision andget nearer to the west end of Bantry Bay. Sailing from each river northwards needs not only good weather as the swell can get so large, [...]

12 May 2022 | The Italian garden at Garinish Island

Glengarriff Harbour and Garinish Island (Ilnacullin) 7-12 May

Glengarriff is sheltered enough to be a hurricane hole. It's a must to visit but as strong SW winds were forecast it was a perfect place to be. It was a fine evening and were greeted by the resident seals as we anchored near Garinish Island. The next day was overcast but we spent most of the day on the [...]

12 May 2022 | Live fowl for sale in Bantry market- you can buy almost anything!

Adrigole and Bantry

In settled weather we were abl;e to continue east towards Bantry, stopping in the protected Adrigole harbour which is home to a large population of harbour seals. The potentially peaceful is setting disrupted by the noise from the busy coast road with its traffic from the fishing port of Castleberehaven [...]

Tern Turns South: 1- Winter 2017/18 in Falmouth

17 April 2018 | Falmouth UK
Manice Stabbins early spring 2018
We hauled out in the Rustler yard's hard, as usual, for the winter and managed to fill the time with maintenance jobs. There was a niggley leak on the portside of the saloon which we eventually tracked to the caulking under the toe rail. In the course of discovering this Larry recaulked much of the deck and rebedded many a screw and Tern does seem to be more water tight. We also had the cooker (now nearly 25 years old) serviced and Larry insulated the engine room so motoring is far quieter now.
The house was booked for holiday lets from Easter onwards so we had to be back in the water and out of the house before the end of March, still quite cold, wet and windy but with some promisingly warm days. All in all , we were happy to be back on board and ready to go so early in the season.
The Easter holiday brought Roger and Rosa (son and his girlfriend) to Cornwall. Stella and Mungo (daughter and boyfriend) had moved into a flat in Falmouth which gave us a family land base so we had a sociable week before leaving the relative homeliness of Falmouth marina and launch off south. We checked that all was well at home after it's first week of rental; we have new caretakers and a new gardener, fortunately all was fine and we are hoping it will remain so in our abscence, with many people enjoying it over the summer.
Our first sortee was to our home waters of the Helford river and a night at anchor off Tremayne Quay. This is one of the few places we've found where there are no shore lights or dwellings visible, no phone signal and no internet, just the tide, trees, birds and stars. However, as we needed to watch the weather to find a good Chanel crossing window, off we went back to the relatively connected anchorage at Trebah/Durgan and found there was due to be some suitable NE/E light wind for a day or so in a couple of days: April 11/12. We did a sail trail by going back to St Mawes and we seemed to be able to remember how to do it so after a couple nights at anchor, off we went to France.









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