Durgan mooring (Helford)

[Tintin]

Anyone got experience of mooring at Durgan (Helford) on a seasonal basis?

I understand it can get a bit rolly.

 

[Hacker]

Never anchored there, but is reputed to be horrible if there is any east in the wind. Suspect @fisherman will give you a definitive answer.

 

[fisherman]

Durgan is very exposed, and it's not much better up river at Helford village/Passage, in easterlies. However, people seem to leave boats out all year more than in the past. We used to hide in Frenchman's in easterlies, or Port Navas for deeper water. Extreme weather causes extreme trouble, seen Helford creek outside the Shipwrights empty and fill up again in twenty minutes, there's a surge comes over the bars below the Ferryboat, and another below Durgan. Take advice from the mooring people?

 

[Boathook]

In 2019 when an easterly summer gale came in I was anchored the Helford River up past Groyne Point. We decided that it wasn't worth a dinghy journey ashore one day do to the waves. I don't know what it was like down by visitor moorings at the time.