Chat 18 catamaran sailing in the upper reaches of the river Tamar

I have now been based on the west bank of the river Tamar for 40 years. Either living on a boat or in a waterfront house. The River Tamar marks the natural boundary between Cornwall in the west, and Devon (or as we say it "England") to the east. The source of the Tamar is about 60 miles from the mouth and only 3 miles from the north coast, thus Cornwall is almost an island. The lower reaches, where I live, are dominated by Europe's biggest naval dockyard, Devonport, which was founded in 1690. Most visitors to Plymouth and the Tamar have no idea that just upstream from the Dockyard is a huge rural river system, navigable under sail for about 15 miles. I have posted many videos of me sailing various boats off the dockyard, but now here is one sailing my Chat 18 catamaran in the Tamar north of Plymouth. It was a windy day (I needed the reef) and I'm sailing between Weir Quay and the Saltash Bridges. North of Weir Quay the river narrows, but it is still sailable as far as Calstock - although, as I have found in the past, you do have to be careful of low, overhanging trees when short tacking! So this video starts with me hove to, just south of the moorings at Weir Quay, and then I sail south, past Cargreen to Landulph. From there the Tamar opens out to form a big sailing area bounded by in the west by Kingsmill Lake (the small creeks of the Tamar are called "lakes") and to the east by the river Tavy and its low fixed railway bridge. One day soon we will go under that in Chat (more of a challenge than it looks, as we will have to lower the mast while underway) and venture up the Tavy. We can then sail almost as far as Buckland Abbey, originally an Abbey, then home to St Francis Drake. We will certainly stop for lunch at the great waterside pub in Bere Ferrers. More on that another time. And then south to the Saltash mooring field and bridges, which you have seen before. A great afternoon's sail! More on the Chat 18 here https://www.sailingcatamarans.com/index.php/designs-2/2-catamarans-under-25ft/475-chat-18-daysailing-catamaran See my 200+ other videos here https://www.youtube.com/user/WoodsDesigns