An English Summer 60

 "You don't need to be a weatherman, to know which way the wind blows," incants Bob Dylan (Subterranean Homesick Blues, 1965). In Scilly wind direction, and strength, call the tune.

Light airs, too weak for passage making, but suited to an exploration of the less sheltered anchorages, have followed in Evert's wake. The synoptic charts, though, show a low heading our way. The wind is expected to rise, to force seven, and blow from the southwest through to west. Stargazer is therefore staying put, anchor already dug in, the lee of this bay already tested, until it passes.

By Friday or Saturday, the system should be through. A week of passage making, force four to five, winds looks likely to follow. Blowing either from the west or south west. Depending on which it is, Stargazer will first make for either St Mary's harbour (sheltered from the south west, exposed to the west), or Porth Cressa (sheltered from the west, exposed to the south west), to replenish our cooking gas.

St Mary's provides a convenient departure point, to begin a meandering return to the Kent coast. Necessarily routing via the English shore, due to ongoing covid-complications. 

By Monday, the tides suit for a daylight passage, to one of the Cornish ports. That is 'Plan A .' Realisation, of it, dependent on which way the wind blows.