Runnel Stone buoy position 50 degrees 01minutes North 05 degrees 01 minutes West.
En route to the Isles of Scilly we left Penzance harbour at 04-20hrs 10th August 2003. Put in a reef at 05-45hrs passed Runnel Stone buoy at 06-40hrs - wind NNW 4/5 occasional rain. 0700hrs due south of Lands End, Wolf Rock lighthouse visible to the south west 5 miles.
Cannis Rock buoy position 50 degrees 18 minutes North. 04 degrees 40 minutes West.
Approached from the S.W. on the homeward leg from the Scillies Relatively calm on this occasion though I've met her since when conditions have been anything but sedate ! Thirty knots of blow on leg two of the Falmouth triangle race , early May 2011. The good boat Xstatic [X99] had to be left in Fowey because of damage to the bulkhead caused by falling and slamming off the waves. The next day's forecast was 40 knots easterly, not desirable when heading to Plymouth!
Entered two paintings for the 'Spirit of Porthleven' art competition August 2011
I was allocated 'the slipway' as a subject to respond to. Managed to get hold of a S.W. chart that had an inset of Porthleven harbour and took photographs of the harbour slipway from various positions. The first painting used the inset as the stabilising backdrop with a viewpoint looking directly down the slip incorporating visual suggestions of the landscape beyond.
The second painting focussed in more closely on the chart depiction of the harbour, overlaid with a poured image of the slipway from a side view looking towards the west.
Both paintings were exhibited in the old lifeboat station gallery, which seemed a perfect setting for the subject matter. They elicited a good deal of interest and discussion from people viewing the exhibition which was encouraging.
Mallard Shoal navigation mark just off Plymouth Hoe is a significant visual ediface and an obvious obstacle to avoid, particularly when taking part in the Plym yacht club, Friday night series, neatly positioned between a cluster of buoys in that area.
'Drakes Island' or as it has been reclassified 'St. Nicholas's Island' buoy, north of the island often serves as a windward rounding mark when the breeze has switched to a westerly for the start of the Friday night racing.
