Did we get this WRONG?

Maybe we should have practiced this first?! On reflection we wonder if there's a safer way to successfully 'land' these potentially dangerous moorings. Would you keep one of the trot lines short and one exceptionally long, instead of how we finished up?
However, despite it being a somewhat scary entrance it is possibly the most idyllic looking port along the entire South West coast. What do you think?
To see all the amazing places we've visited then check our website out at www.cadoha.com

[@simonmusgrovewethey]

You need to be sponsored by the English Tourist Board. The fabulous amount of publicity you bring to the south coast must be worth millions in tourism.

[@CadohaAdventures]

That's kind of you to say. I only hope the Cornish men who recently took issue with me referring to Cornwall as England will see some benefit in my celebrating their beautiful region of Britain 🙏🏻

[@garethrandall6787]

The way you moored was a success! To avoid using a dinghy I would have picked up the aft mooring 1st from the bow, walk it back and attach it to the stern, motor forward then pick up the bow. Would only work with long lines though. Great vids btw

[@pmchamlee]

The mere thought of another video from 'you 3' brings me much joy. You all are uncommonly intelligent, adventurous, and charming. Many thanks for sharing your journeys!

[@CadohaAdventures]

You're far too kind and I would agree with you on Carly, I'm just the dumb ape she makes look good 😇

[@kevinsaunby982]

Nothing wrong with your mooring method. Picking up stern first then bow is just another way. It’s similar to long lining in the Med with a tree and an anchor and we use a dinghy for the stern line in that event. Another great video and thank you. I feel you are approaching crumble baking time!

[@RichardChambers]

I was on a trot mooring for years and it does get easier over time. Saying that, I had a line between the two buoys which made it easier. With no lines in place I would probably attach the stern mooring line first and then continue going forward until I could attach to the forward buoy from the cockpit too. Then you can pull the stern line tighter to centralise yourself. You would need pretty long mooring lines to do that. With the space you had, as long as you get the first line attached you can relax and take time to plan how to get the second line attached. I think you did well for a first attempt.

[@HenryAyrestheoriginal]

That was chaotic? You should come and learn real chaos with some of the shenanigans we get up to.

[@MrFroglips69]

Groovy episode. Your anchoring map is amazing. You are tuning the world on to some of the coolest and beautiful places in all of England. You find so many gorgeous towns and villages how do you not stay at one of them forever. Storybook land in real life. Stay safe and stay groovy.

[@CadohaAdventures]

A lot of these places do feel like they're straight out of some kind of period drama, enchanted fantasy or pirate/ smuggler story book.

[@MrFroglips69]

@@CadohaAdventures Your sailing adventures give us amazing adventures and beautiful joy.

[@westcountry_sailing]

She's going to be slippery as an eel after that scrub down! Lovely video as always Dom

[@CadohaAdventures]

She certainly feels marginally faster now 🙏🏻☺️

[@jennywhelehan3324]

Just one of our many favourite places to visit when we are in that area. Been several times - by car 🙂 Thanks for sharing as always you seem to carry us along with you on on all your experiences. Stay well dear friend xx

[@mathewdavis-adventuresandd6643]

Wow, what a jewel of a place. Thank you for sharing that video.

[@CadohaAdventures]

Our pleasure! We hope others who perhaps didn't know about it can go and enjoy it now too along with many of the other spots we've had the great privilege to stay in recently ☺️🙏🏻

[@allsearpw3829]

Hi thank you for another nice video , you three have certainly made the most of a rather not so good summer .👍👍 🐶👍

[@GaryDoe-we9uw]

You 3 are terrific 😃! ! I love Talland bay and Polperro, have been many times...

[@user-tm2cr6dm6e]

Well done Carly and Dom 🙂. An approach I’ve sometimes used is for one person to knot the bow and stern lines together, with a fender in the middle for flotation and marking. While the helm keeps the boat just clear of the moorings, the crew takes the lines in the dinghy and ties them to the mooring buoys. It is the easy to come alongside the lines and pick up the fender and hence fore and aft lines.

[@Marcel-J]

Dom, thanks again for a very nice episode of your journey.

[@CadohaAdventures]

My pleasure and you're very welcome ☺️

[@tatali0n]

Really enjoyed watching how you picked up the trot mooring, not least because I plan to try the same there next year with our own boat (a Moody 36 out of Brixham). With regards to method, I've never done it with our current boat as she's still very new to us, but did it a fair few times times (albeit elsewhere, not Polperro) with our last boat, a Westerly Griffon. She had the same "capricious" nature astern as Cadoha seems to have, so when it was an option, I always secured the stern line first then motored ahead against the secured stern mooring to pick up and secure the bow mooring. I don't know if that'll work so well with our Moody (or your Cadoha) but it worked a treat with the Griffon (which to be fair, at 26', was really just a big sailing dinghy :) )

[@greenebank]

Perhaps it might make for a less stressful mooring by picking up the aft mooring as your stern is about to leave it in her wake, paying out the stern line until you hook the forward mooring. Check your tides and currents before you enter to choose a port or starboard approach.

[@ljs399]

I was on a trot mooring in the Dart for 9 years, easier with a lazy line between the mooring lines, but any method of mooring to the buoys without the benefit of the lazy line is fine just so long as it works for you. I also scrubbed off our dive boat in the Exe last week. Been on a mooring for about 4 months without being anti fouled. The whole hull was carpeted in small mussels which covered the barnacles underneath. I use a plastic ice scraper for car windscreens, and it was very satisfying having long sheets of mussels with barnacles attached on the under side come off, leaving the hull completely clean. 27’ boat including prop and rudder cleaned off in an hour without scuba gear, just a mask and gloves. Love your videos, I’ve anchored in most of the same spots over the years.

[@VTOmanifan]

Hi Dom, great video as always. I've been into Polperro a few times in my 22 footer, and you certainly do need a dedicated 'long' mooring rope especially for the outer mooring buoys. I see they have actually moved the East moorings more to the West since I was last there. there was, of course, a likttle more room, but less depth of water. Ollie, the Harbourmaster, is a very helpful person. £15 is the same as about 3 years ago.

[@neilmarshall3942]

Great cinematography, you really show and tell a sailor/adventurer great story- keep up the hard work 👍

[@rod8823]

Hi & thanks for your vids 👍 I am intrigued with the 'scuba' set-up you used for cleaning your hull! I assume you have some kind of compressor/pump on the deck? If you had a minute in a future vid, I would really like to see/learn more about your setup - or. if that's been shown previously, could some kind soul tell me which episode as I haven't found it yet. Thanks 🙂🙃😊

[@CadohaAdventures]

Hey there Rod. This is something I wrote previously about the under water breathing apparatus that I use. For everyone messaging me and asking about my under-water breathing equipment, this is the system we're using here: www.airbuddy.com/?ref=aJ0aLM Now let me say a few things before you run off and buy one. Firstly I have nothing to compare it to other than free-diving. I've never scuba dived before in my life and I've never used another hookah before. I did do a lot of due diligence when it comes to understanding the dangers of breathing compressed air under the water. In short, these things are dangerous and not to be taken lightly. If you think this is something you'd be interested in then please do speak to a diving expert (I've had the good fortune to learn from several, in terms of theory, as well as my own continued reading). We really enjoy this electronic hookah as it's small, lightweight and seemed (to us) perfect for the little space we had on the boat, where dive tanks and a compressor just wouldn't fit, as well as add a lot of additional weight. If you use the above link and you do buy one too then we will get a small kick back which will go towards Hanks treat jar, it's the same price regardless of if you go to the company directly, but I know some people feel a certain kind of way about us getting any kind of kick backs, so if that's you then just google 'air buddy dive system' and go to the site directly, again the price is the same regardless, but I'd like you to feel good about how you got there, so, there you have it. What else can I say? We bought the system directly from the company in Australia. We bought it ourselves and paid full price for it. We saw a 'distributer' in the UK, but they wanted close to double the price and had similar wait times to simply ordering direct from Australia, so that's why we went direct and just paid some import taxes, which still worked out much cheaper than the UK distributer. The team at Air Buddy have also been amazing on the other end of my emails and questions, for us it's been a very positive after sales service. Again I've never tried any other products so I am in no way qualified to give any advice other than say that we use this most days and have been enjoying it, we've used it to check on the anchor, clean under the boat mid-season, explore some amazing reefs and do a spot of foraging too. We get close to an hour under the water on my own or about 50 minutes when Carly is attached to it too. I hope that's answered most of the questions which have come my way but if you have any more then again please do just ask and I'll do my best to answer them from my own anecdotal experience.

[@rod8823]

Hi @@CadohaAdventures , Thanks so much for your very informative and thoughtful response. My 26', fin-keeled, Bermudan-rigged sloop is normally on a mooring in a tidal estuary and gets a lot of barnacles. I used to have a PADI 'open-water' diving cert., but that elapsed many years ago so when I saw your set-up I thought it would save me a lot of money 're-certifying' myself and buying (or hiring) scuba gear. My boat is now out of the water for the winter, so I'm now thinking I will use the winter months to find out as much as I can about this 'surface' system. But I'm also aware that I'm lucky, insofar as I have access to a small, tidal, drying harbour, so have the ability to tie-uo against the wall and scrape my hull twice a day. Thanks again for your info and thoughts. ATB, Rod

[@327365hp]

What a beautiful spot!

[@aldeco5698]

Beautiful Polpero !!!

[@dobie2times]

Just watching you with the sweet and sour blackberries, I had one of that mixture this morning on purpose. We have put up several dozen bags in the freezer for later in the year. Thank you for a wonderful video and as always a beautiful dog and lovely wife. You make good videos thank you

[@bootybandy]

What a stunning harbour. Love it.

[@eltetecr]

Very good use of the Hookah system! Compared to lifting the boat out and cleaning.

[@CadohaAdventures]

Ha ha, yes just 4 or 5 more scrubs and it's paid for itself 🤣

[@sergest-pierre6160]

Agree with you, those locations you visit, looks amazing. Is it always sunny, I only been in England twice, in January, and the weather was nice. What is this rumor about England being rainy all the time. Thanks for the video

[@AndyUK-Corrival]

Nice one guys, slowly getting back to your videos as I’ve had a things going on! Are you guys going to be back in the usual place for winter? Might have some rigging jobs that you might be interested in. Catch you sometime. Andy UK

[@CadohaAdventures]

We will be back in Southampton and having some fairly extensive work done to Cadoha. She's going to be coming out of the water and into a shed for the winter so the work can all be done properly.

[@simonfellows5837]

We were lucky enough to visit Polperro and overnight in our 45' sailing boat earlier this year. Truly a magical place - and your mooring technique was exactly the same as ours. Sent my son out in the dinghy! You need very long lines to double up though. In settled weather one of the best places in Cornwall. The pub you were in isn't too bad either.... 🙂

[@Lightw81]

The conventional way of picking up fore and aft moorings is to pick up one buoy or pile and attach to stern on a long line, then motor up to the other buoy and attach to bow. Centre the boat and put the kettle on, as Tom cunliffe would say. Lots of books describe the technique under "pile mooring", which used to be the norm. Those plastic line threaders are genius.

[@paulclarke8184]

Hi Carly and Dom - great video as usual, simply wonderful. Dom - when you are scrubbing the undersides, don't you get a million little worm thingies floating around and in your hair and ears, and do fish come up for the free floating food that is now floating around?

[@CadohaAdventures]

Hey Paul. Well this is the first time we’ve really (fully) scrubbed the underside, mid-season, and yes I was indeed covered in thousands of creepy crawlers, mostly tiny looking shrimp like creatures 🤢

[@liongod1000]

@pauclarke8184 *_ That's why it's imperative to either wear a Wetsuit that covers your head or Goggles and earplugs. Getting one of those creepy crawlies in your ear is absolutely devastatingly painful _*

[@jamesnicholls4607]

Hi Carly and Dominic, great video as always. Pick the aft bouy up at the cockpit paying out the aft line while motoring onto the bow bouy. No need for the dinghy or going astern. Nothing wrong with how you did it though..

[@ianfirth-clark5975]

Trot mooring is often governed more by the tide and wind so different methods can be used. if the tide and wind suit then grab the up wind/tide mooring midships with a long line then just see which way you drift. if straight down the line then easy peasy let the stern drop onto it if not you can go astern gently with a little tension on th bow line to keep you fairly straight or stern first then forward throttle. if all fails then dinghy is also good just a bit more faffing about. I did notice a local fishing boat go past as you were mooring and you didn't attract his attention so obviously weren't doing it too bad or he would have sniggered a bit whilst gently shaking his head. once one line is attached you have as much time as you want to work the bet method for the day. Nice work guys.

[@rogersmith8339]

We visited Belle Ile on the coast off Brittany and there you more fore and aft off the harbour wall using extremely long ropes if you are around 40 feet long because the rear buoy is positioned to account for 50 foot plus boats. What makes it really fun is that you are packed into a little harbour like sardines.

[@caromarco6315]

I think you got it exactly right!

[@paulreading8980]

We have been there in our 40 foot Starlight, pick up the stern buoy first and motor towards the forward buoy, you have less chance if swinging into rocks. I have not yet had the courage to take my new boat there which is 55 feet...It is on the bucket list.

[@CadohaAdventures]

Appreciate the tips and I think we too would surly be even more nervous in such a big boat too 🫣⛵️

[@sailingyemaya9781]

Looks like you guys did a good job getting on that mooring ball. What is that yellow handled tool?

[@CadohaAdventures]

It was just an automatic pick up tool that we bought in the chandlery in Falmouth one year. I think most chandlers sell them.

[@andrewwilson3663]

Nice long keel - you can dry out in Looe harbour, do the job right with a proper scrape and scrub and get a coat of A/F on yer bottom. Alternatively Dart Harbourmaster used to have a grid and power washer to hire at the Kingsweir side just above the marina. Only problem I had was that it turned out to be Thomas the Tank engine weekend when I scrubbed off and I had to stop every time the train came to hold my daughter so she could wave...

[@CadohaAdventures]

We have thought about tying up and drying out a few times now actually 👌🏼

[@paulcollins4932]

Try the stern line first then motor forward and pick up the bow bouyadjusting your position from onboard

[@davidfosh4546]

aft mooring first, then move forward to bow mooring is the way I fo it.

[@1962gms]

In those conditions and wind, would agree. However, each time will depend on conditions and whether your yacht will go astern easily. As pilots say, any landing you can walk away from is a good one!! 😇

[@the_ayesha_khan]

Hey guys, great video and location, thanks. What’s the breathing apparatus that you guys are using?

[@CadohaAdventures]

Hello there, I wrote this in a previous video which covers the kit I use: For everyone messaging me and asking about my under-water breathing equipment, this is the system we're using here: www.airbuddy.com/?ref=aJ0aLM Now let me say a few things before you run off and buy one. Firstly I have nothing to compare it to other than free-diving. I've never scuba dived before in my life and I've never used another hookah before. I did do a lot of due diligence when it comes to understanding the dangers of breathing compressed air under the water. In short, these things are dangerous and not to be taken lightly. If you think this is something you'd be interested in then please do speak to a diving expert (I've had the good fortune to learn from several, in terms of theory, as well as my own continued reading). We really enjoy this electronic hookah as it's small, lightweight and seemed (to us) perfect for the little space we had on the boat, where dive tanks and a compressor just wouldn't fit, as well as add a lot of additional weight. If you use the above link and you do buy one too then we will get a small kick back which will go towards Hanks treat jar, it's the same price regardless of if you go to the company directly, but I know some people feel a certain kind of way about us getting any kind of kick backs, so if that's you then just google 'air buddy dive system' and go to the site directly, again the price is the same regardless, but I'd like you to feel good about how you got there, so, there you have it. What else can I say? We bought the system directly from the company in Australia. We bought it ourselves and paid full price for it. We saw a 'distributer' in the UK, but they wanted close to double the price and had similar wait times to simply ordering direct from Australia, so that's why we went direct and just paid some import taxes, which still worked out much cheaper than the UK distributer. The team at Air Buddy have also been amazing on the other end of my emails and questions, for us it's been a very positive after sales service. Again I've never tried any other products so I am in no way qualified to give any advice other than say that we use this most days and have been enjoying it, we've used it to check on the anchor, clean under the boat mid-season, explore some amazing reefs and do a spot of foraging too. We get close to an hour under the water on my own or about 50 minutes when Carly is attached to it too. I hope that's answered most of the questions which have come my way but if you have any more then again please do just ask and I'll do my best to answer them from my own anecdotal experience.

[@the_ayesha_khan]

Thanks Dom, much appreciated. If we buy one we'll use your link. 👍

[@Roskellan]

Down by King Harry Ferry this afternoon, but didn't see your boat. Must have been looking in the wrong place?

[@sailingturadh]

Hi guys, what type of diving equipment do you use?

[@MiQBohlin]

Did I just see you used an automatic mooring hook? But it was yellow and didn’t look like the Hook&Moor type - What kind of mooring hook do you use?

[@CadohaAdventures]

You did and we did, Sir. It was just an automatic mooring hook grabby thingy which we bought in a chandlers in Cornwall last year. It was basically a yellow one of these: www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=mooring+pick+up+tool&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8

[@MiQBohlin]

Ahh… Great! I just repaired my Hook&Moor the other day and it is a little wonder again 👌🏽

[@aaronmccarthy3247]

Taland bay has a more recent smuggling past!( free trade)😊

[@MADsailing560]

The "Master of Nothing??" I thought you were the Master of making Carly happy?? 🤔

[@cliffordwebb9228]

Going stern to a buoy is always the best. I have a cat & it is so much easier especially if you are single handed. Can I ask where you got your cockpit lights are they good?

[@CadohaAdventures]

They were literally just a Morrisons purchase. They've been great for helping find the right boat again at night when we're actually in a busy anchorage. Are they any good? I mean I don't think they'll last many seasons, truth be told, but they were also really cheap, so it's to be expected I guess.

[@PaulBKal]

Borderline disgrace at 6:20? Noooo, COMPLETE disgrace! But lovely video

[@CadohaAdventures]

Fair 🤣

[@marktanska6331]

I have question for you. Why do we insist calling modern anti fouling paints anti fouling paints?

[@CadohaAdventures]

I mean the hull itself wasn’t quite as bad as I had expected and bare in mind we didn’t apply new anti foul this season, so that accounts for a lot. We also used different anti foul on the sail drive which had very different results to the rest of the hull.

[@marktanska6331]

There is no point defending the paints. I own an run 52f ketch, bottom stays clean 6 moths, tolerable for 12, with one or two dives. Sometimes I think polyurethane really well applied would do better @@CadohaAdventures