We left Baltimore in the first week of June and had a lively sail to the Scillies in west to North west wind force 4 to 6. We anchored in Porth Cressa on St Mary’s 26 hours later. Very attractive but crowded! We wouldn’t be used to sharing an anchorage with 28 other boats. The majority were French, a number from the UK and only 1 or 2 others from Ireland.
It was very peaceful on our first visit but later in the week we returned when there were wringer winds forecasted and there were some shenanigans when a couple of boat dragged their anchors!
Port Cressa, St Mary’s
St Mary’s is very well supplied with a boat yard, chandelery and a good shop for supplies, as well as plenty of high end tourist shops for cloths and crafts etc.
Once you arrive here, there are plenty of anchorages on the different islands all within a couple of hours of each other. Anchorages can be quite deep 5 to 10m), generally good holding in sand. There are some good visitors moorings in New Grimsby (£30 per night). We are on one now, sitting this out!😳🤞
For the last week we have had great weather with no rain and plenty of sunshine but it hasn’t been that warm up to the steady northerlies. We’ve enjoyed plenty of walks ashore on many of the islands, all with their own charms from Tresco’s exotic gardens with manicured paths to Gugh, where you’ll hardly see a sole and can walk across heathland, past a colony of breeding gulls that seem to hardly notice you passing.
Figurehead museum on Tresco from some of the many wrecks around the coast
