Sunday morning and the sun was shining once again! Early start today as it was Cornwall Boat Jumble at Penryn and we were hoping to find a bargain or two for Crocus. We arrived just as the gates were opening and the long queue of people began to filter through. There were loads of stalls selling everything from rope ...
to sails and outboards ...
plus booms ...
and very interestingly for us a chap with samples of deck covering ...
Crocus has trackmark decking which is no longer available but this stuff will be as near to it as we could get - great! We had a good wander around but apart from a hank of rope there was nothing else we wanted. The boys suggested going on into Falmouth for coffee and so we went to our favourite place where we could sit out on the balconey and watch all the activities ...
It was then time to go shopping in Trago Mills - a must for each visit to Falmouth - and after buying Hamish a new lead we found some battery operated navigation lights for Crocus which were just what we wanted and a good price too! Jamie and Phill checked out every single department of the shop (!) and so Mike and I went to a pier by the slipway where we could look back to where we'd had coffee ...
and watched while a lady made a very difficult manoeuvre onto a yacht ...
There were several people watching the poor lady and we all wanted to give her a round of applause when she made it but we didn't! All good entertainment on a Sunday. The boys joined us and we walked the walkway around the
Museum so we could get a closer look at the vessels moored up. Some of them were huge ...
and this one had garden furniture which would be too big for our garden plus a swimming pool all on the aft deck ...
While making our way back to the car Jo got in touch and asked if we'd like to join them for a BBQ so after popping home for the dogs we spent a few hours in their garden enjoying some lovely grub and good company. Thanks Paul and Jo. The weather had been glorious all day and in the evening we had the most wonderful sky as we looked down the harbour to the sea ...
to sails and outboards ...
plus booms ...
and very interestingly for us a chap with samples of deck covering ...
Crocus has trackmark decking which is no longer available but this stuff will be as near to it as we could get - great! We had a good wander around but apart from a hank of rope there was nothing else we wanted. The boys suggested going on into Falmouth for coffee and so we went to our favourite place where we could sit out on the balconey and watch all the activities ...
It was then time to go shopping in Trago Mills - a must for each visit to Falmouth - and after buying Hamish a new lead we found some battery operated navigation lights for Crocus which were just what we wanted and a good price too! Jamie and Phill checked out every single department of the shop (!) and so Mike and I went to a pier by the slipway where we could look back to where we'd had coffee ...
and watched while a lady made a very difficult manoeuvre onto a yacht ...
There were several people watching the poor lady and we all wanted to give her a round of applause when she made it but we didn't! All good entertainment on a Sunday. The boys joined us and we walked the walkway around the Museum so we could get a closer look at the vessels moored up. Some of them were huge ...
and this one had garden furniture which would be too big for our garden plus a swimming pool all on the aft deck ...
While making our way back to the car Jo got in touch and asked if we'd like to join them for a BBQ so after popping home for the dogs we spent a few hours in their garden enjoying some lovely grub and good company. Thanks Paul and Jo. The weather had been glorious all day and in the evening we had the most wonderful sky as we looked down the harbour to the sea ...
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