Where might we go on 6-7 day voyages starting from Cornwall ?

Atlantic Edge of Europe for Ocean Sunsets

Stretching between Brittany and the Scillies and covering the ports and anchorages of the West Country, we sail the same Western Approaches as the original pilot cutters would have patrolled. They were searching the next sailing ship returning from the rest of the world, to put their pilot aboard and take them safely into the English Channel, Bristol Channel or Irish Sea. It can be rough as the Atlantic Ocean is not far away and can make its presence felt with long swells, and fast moving depressions, but the beauty of the area is the clean unpolluted airs, and deeply indented coastlines offering a vast choice of places to go in different wind directions. The sun sets in the west so we are always looking for the elusive green flash as the sun appears to sink beneath the waves.

Connect with the Local Communities

The Breton, Scillionian, Irish, Welsh and Cornish communities that fringe the Atlantic hang fiercely onto their seafaring traditions – celebrating their history with gig boat racing, maritime festivals, folk and sea shanties, and offer warm welcomes to boats like Eve, Lizzie May or AJ that fit so well into these timeless landscapes. We offer a connection with the past, and a sense of place that sailing on a modern yacht does not achieve.

On our 6-7 day voyages we can venture eastwards to Looe, Cawsand, Newton Ferrers and the great naval port of Plymouth. If we are making our way to Brixham for the famous Brixham Heritage Festival and Brixham Trawler Races then Salcombe and Dartmouth are both stunning harbours to sail into with high dark entrance cliffs and towns that cling to the hillsides.

Mounts Bay & Lands End

Sailing westwards strong tides can speed us around the Lizard, if the prevailing south westerlies allow us. Tucked just around the corner is Mullion Cove with its winter storm battered port and dark black sea caves. Only accessible by boat, exploring inside the caves feels similar to being swallowed by a whale with polished black serpentine rock and blood red mineral veins. Mounts Bay stretches a magnificent 35 miles from the Lizard to Tater Du lighthouse near Lamorna Cove. Offshore the biggest landmark around is the huge Wolf Rock lighthouse- often as good shallow spot for dolphins and other cetaceans. Closer in to the bay the unusual skyline of Penzance with its domes and spires shows up more than the famous St Michaels Mount and its causeway. Leaving Penzance or Newlyn you can’t miss St Michaels Mount with its distinctive sillouette against the sunrise.

Seafood, Fish Markets, Bustle and Bust ups

Nearby Newlyn provides the only all weather harbour entrance in Mounts Bay and inside is a very bustling commercial fishing port with as much crab as you could possible want to eat ! Its strange mix of artists and proud working town fighting for its fishing future produces a passionate local community that is well worth talking to. A few miles down the coast, just off the entrance to the aesthetically perfect semi circular harbour of Mousehole is a rare anchorage if weather is calm. Likewise Lamorna Cove is a fair weather swimming anchorage and has great apple crumble and clotted cream ashore in the little harbour café. If the wind is from the North, sailing close under the golden granite cliffs of West Penwith towards Lands End shows off a rocky architecture that only climbers usually see, and occasionally Eve can become a distant backdrop for an outdoor performance of the Minnack Theatre with its seats caved into the cliff and looking seaward.

Link to Scillies voyages to follow

Link to Brittany voyages to follow

Link to RYA voyages to follow

Link to shorter voyages for ports closer to St Mawes to follow