Left: The tranquil Helford River (photo: www.jeffmeadows.net). Bottom left: Smuggler's Cottage, River Fal. Above: There’s
plenty of visitor moorings off Falmouth or you can anchor. Right: High Line Transfer training exercise with Air/Sea Rescue
from RNAS Culdrose – you don't realise how big they are till they’re right overhead. Below: Hove-to south of Falmouth
harbour entrance waiting for the helicopter.
close – directly overhead when
they initially lower the line –
on sampling the delights of entrance, hard on the wind and out to sea to our rendezvous. is mind boggling.
Falmouth. There’s good food tacked up the river, picking up We arrived a little early, so When the RN had gone we
to be had – and lots of pubs a mooring in the deep water hove to and waited. set sail for Fowey, 16 miles
of course – but being Bank pool off the village. We all We will publish a detailed downwind. The sun had
Holiday Monday night it was know the West Country is article on the High Line come out and the F4-5 wind
fairly quiet. pretty, but the Helford River is Transfer – the method used saw our Bavaria 36 reaching
Tuesday morning dawned really special. to transfer people between a at up to 9kn. The approach
overcast with rain threatening We would have stayed helicopter and a yacht – in a and entrance at Fowey are
(though it never came) and longer and explored further forthcoming issue. For now, straightforward, though there
a forecast F4-5, F6 later. up the river, but we had a date let me just say that the noise are rocks both sides, so you
We sailed to Helford, four with an RN helicopter, so is deafening and the sheer size need to get lined up. Once
miles from Falmouth harbour sailed off the mooring and ran of the helicopter hovering so in the protected harbour >>
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