50 places to sail before you die

[MoodySabre]

Someone recently bought me the book titled as above.

The only UK places were the Solent and the Firth of Clyde /forums/images/graemlins/confused.gif

For many east coasters the former comes in the same category as "See Naples and ..." or perhaps the author had seen too many seaside rescue programmes /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

Where in this wonderful (subject to weather) isle have they missed?

 

[boguing]

Newton Ferrers/Noss Mayo.

 

[Billjratt]

hebrides

 

[Oliveoyl]

Lofoten Islands?

 

[Sixpence]

Cardigan Bay

Just a personal ambition

 

[Landale]

Absolutely!!!

 

[Gunfleet]

Re: 50 places to sail after you die

1) the Styx

 

[KenMcCulloch]

St Kilda

 

[Badger]

It must have been see "Venice and the die". I have seen Venice and I know what the author meant ! To me the thing you have to do is at least cross one Ocean in your life. I always remember a very annoyed sailing instuctor in the Anchor in Cowes saying "Anying idiot can sail an Ocean, but can you find the leading marks into Newton Creek".

For me the top 3 would be:

Horta in the Azores. ( Peters Bar)

Loch Melfort

La Coruna

Badger x

 

[Lakesailor]

Humber




(it's an experience)

 

[Twister_Ken]

Shoreham on a wet day. Definitely comes into the bugger Bognor category

 

[CPD]

Pyefleet Creek, in winter. Oh and Southwold.

 

[BenchHead]

St Helena, The Whitsundays , Buxey Sand , Poole Harbour (not the town quay !!), Chanel du Four ... but really anywhere where the wine is good, the beer is cold, the winds are fair, the food is hot and the women are hotter !! /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif

 

[Sixpence]

Round Lands End before turning sharp right to aim for previous destination


Working backwards I know but it's sort of passage planning

 

[stephenh]

So.. UK only..

Inner Hebrides
Outer Hebrides
St Kilda
Flannan Isles
all those sea lochs between Ardnamurchan point and Cape Wrath
FairIsle
Lindisfarne
The Wash
All the East Coast Rivers
Channel Isles
La Maitresse Isle !!
Any inlet from Plymouth to the Scillies
Menai Straits

there must be 50 all told......

Oh and for all its faults - the London River

 

[kds]

Lake Kariba. Take your bins for the game and a gun for Mugabe.
Ken

 

[pyrojames]

The Eastern Med, Turkey in the main.
Tasmania.
The Great Barrier Reef.
The West Country.
West Coast Scotland.

Not necessarily in that order. After doing the West Coast and Tassie, you might want to go somewhere warm!

 

[ChrisE]

1. West coast of Norway
2. Scilly Isles
3. Iles de Salut (Devil's Island)
4. Any warm ocean
5. A North Sea crossing 'cos when you've done one you won't want to do another..
6. South and West Coast of Ireland
7. Key West
8. The Seychelles

 

[Pete7]

Strangford Lough, with its tides and wirlpools,

Pete

 

[FullCircle]

Jaluit, Marshall Islands.

Seen as a Port of Registry on a beautiful 76ft Miller Fife called Serengeti.
I must go there.