Muxey
Well-Known Member
A 300 mile 1 way trip to your marina is this too far to get the best from your boat?
6 hour drive to the boat too much ?
- Thread starter Muxey
- Start date
AntarcticPilot
Well-Known Member
Well, I used to have an 8 hour trip to the boat when I kept her on the Clyde. I managed for about 9 years!
neilf39
Well-Known Member
I do 100 or 120 miles each way and it takes me 2 to 3 hours depending on traffic. I use the boat every other week or so. I wouldn't want to drive any further for a weekend out.
ronsurf
Well-Known Member
Mine is about half an hour's walk away. About 6 minutes by motorbike. 12 minutes by bicycle. I would consider 6 hours a bit much but it depends on whether it's a tidal mooring. It can be a very fractious drive when you're delayed and the tide is dropping.
Tranona
Well-Known Member
Depends entirely on your pattern of usage. For 10 years I kept my boat a 3 hour drive, 3 hour flight - that is almost a day away and was very satisfied with the use and enjoyment i got out of it. Now I am 15 minutes to boat and out in open water after another 15. Perfect.
However for weekend use and doing necessary maintenance 6 hours, plus the fuel is a non starter for me.
However for weekend use and doing necessary maintenance 6 hours, plus the fuel is a non starter for me.
Biggles Wader
Well-Known Member
For a day sail? Yes much too far but for a two week cruise? No problem.
doug748
Well-Known Member
Too far for me but it depends on circumstances as well.
If you are retired and use the boat in big lumps it could be workable. Most working people would probably not want to do it, driving is dreadful over summer weekends, if you travel at night it writes much of the weekend off.
.
If you are retired and use the boat in big lumps it could be workable. Most working people would probably not want to do it, driving is dreadful over summer weekends, if you travel at night it writes much of the weekend off.
.
Muxey
Well-Known Member
Yes we are retired I think a long weekend is the smallest time we wold go for.
Up midweek 4or5 days min. Location Scotland largs aera ?
James_Calvert
Well-Known Member
It's the maintenance that more difficult and expensive if the boat's kept a long way away.
Weekends are OK, but you won't range as far from your home berth, if at all, given you need to keep fit enough to drive home.
Weekends are OK, but you won't range as far from your home berth, if at all, given you need to keep fit enough to drive home.
dunedin
Well-Known Member
As others have said, it depends how long you are typically going for.
But also where you are going to. By the standards of the South of England, most of the journey to Largs is a joy from north of Manchester - generally empty roads and beautiful scenery.
And it is worth it when you arrive and go over the bridge above the railway line to enter Largs Yacht Haven - and have the stunning view over Cumbrae, Little Cumbrae and Bute, over to the rugged hills of Arran.
NB. Alternative solution? Move home closer.
Muxey
Well-Known Member
I am in s Yorkshire, largs looks like a beautiful aera and plenty of good cruiseing ground,
As to moveing home I'm tempted, now need to go and take a look around.
Thank you for the reply.
Wansworth
Well-Known Member
From our house it’s an hours drive to the north coast of Galicia but the cruising area is more rugged and exposed whilst a 3 hour drive will take us to the rias bajas with sheltered water and not so exposed to the northerlies,it’s a question of how long you have to sail
Rafiki
Well-Known Member
Mine is a fraction over 2 hours from home. It's OK for the sailing season (overnight, then sail for the day and home or more usually a week end away), the problem is with the winter maintenance and a 2 hours drive followed by 4 hours work and 2 hours drive home in the dark is a bit tiring. If I could I would set a max of 1, 15 mins from home. At 6 hours your boat could be in Majorca - now there's a better idea !
Jamie Dundee
Well-Known Member
We had a boat in Ardrossan when we lived in Lancaster. Went up every Friday night and back every Sunday, also holidays/bank holidays. I did have a company car and fuel card though…
Rappey
Well-Known Member
I can see my boats from my front room window, but therefore i wont spend a night on the boat when its on its mooring as i have a much more comfy house to sleep in.
Having to travel means your more likely to sleep on your boat and enjoy what it has to offer..
A sail out for me might be a few hrs up and down the harbour, the person who has to travel is more likely to sail a lot further ?
Having to travel means your more likely to sleep on your boat and enjoy what it has to offer..
A sail out for me might be a few hrs up and down the harbour, the person who has to travel is more likely to sail a lot further ?
roblpm
Well-Known Member
Hmmm. Midges. Rain. Different language. Deep fried haggis?
Gotta be somewhere better on the solent.
(In the spirit of recent post about boating costs)
Poignard
Well-Known Member
1-1/2 hours drive to Portsmouth (the worst bit), a comfortable crossing to St Malo, then 2-1/2 hours pleasant drive through Brittany.
Wansworth
Well-Known Member
AntarcticPilot
Well-Known Member
It's horses for courses. When I bought Capricious, I had generous leave and flexible working, so I could get up to the Clyde (I live near Cambridge) for a couple of long weekends a month, and spend several weeks up there. But my wife got a job with much less flexibility, and we couldn't get up so often, so I moved Capricious to the East Coast, an hour and a half drive. That's about as close as I could get her! But to some extent, that's too close - I can easily get to her and back in a day, so there's less incentive to spend long periods aboard. Also, the east coast lacks the long distance cruising options of the West Coast of Scotland; there I can travel long distances, as far as the outer Hebrides, in day long chunks; on the East Coast, the problem is that while there are plenty of day sails, longer distances involve 24 hour or longer passages, usually crossing the North Sea.
I may move back north one day!
I may move back north one day!
Boathook
Well-Known Member
My journey for the last 40 plus years has always been 90 to 100 miles depending upon the route. Originally started at nearly 3 hours, but as bypasses built it went down to nearly 1.5 hours. Increasing traffic means that the journey is now 2 hours. Not having to work means that I travel off 'peak' but in the South proper off peak seems to mean during the night which I also avoid !!
