Manacles East Cardinal Buoy on Voyage E629 Summer 2006

Manacles East Cardinal Buoy on Voyage E629 Summer 2006
Originally uploaded by Adam and Debbie Purser of Classic Sailing.

Classic Sailing are adventure sailing specialist. Look at this Flickr discussion on 7 ways you can sail. Taken from Eve of St Mawes by Chief Skipper Adam on the way back from a voyage to the Isles of Scilly. It was a gorgeous evening with the sun setting and about an hour to go to home. The Manacles is a dangerous set of rocks off the eastern part of the Lizard Peninsula in Cornwall. The dangers are protected by the Manacles Buoy and St Anthony Lighthouse that shines a red light at you if you are on a line drawn from the light through the rocks.
Historically many ships came to grief there and the local church at St Kevern has many graves of sailors.