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I'm based on the Orwell...

I find myself with a week (End August) to cruise with my kids (17,15). The youngest isn't desperately keen on long distance sailing (say 12 hours or so) and is much more pleased with the world when we stop and she's able to get the windsurfer out...

Trouble is, I really need to get back to work after one week. I don't mind leaving her, catching the train home, then coming to pick her up with a crew for a long leg back tho.

So I'm wondering about
* Dutch waterways Veersemeer(sp?) etc (but long sail in/out)
* Calais / Fecamp / Bologne ?
* Take the boat to Dover one weekend and leave it there. Then set off Boulogne southward. But having to return we won't get very far and some of the harbours seem horribly tidal (we draw 1.5m).

All ideas gratefully considered.
 
At that time of year you are more likely to have difficulty getting home from Holland/Belgium than France, due to southwesterlies, or woese still, northwesterlies, which can stay for days.



WE like Holland, but a week is a bit short. You can probably get to Boulogne the first day (or Dover) and then it's 55 miles to Dieppe, which is real France. The pearl of this coast is St Valery en Caux and as that is only 15 miles from Dieppe it is easy to work the tide to get there before HW. You can holiday there and windsurf to your heart's content.
 
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I find myself with a week (End August) to cruise with my kids (17,15). The youngest isn't desperately keen on long distance sailing (say 12 hours or so) and is much more pleased with the world when we stop and she's able to get the windsurfer out...

Trouble is, I really need to get back to work after one week. I don't mind leaving her, catching the train home, then coming to pick her up with a crew for a long leg back tho.

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Just realised that 'her' is ambiguous - I do of course mean the boat, not my daughter... /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif I'll have the social services round next .... /forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif
 
Only one week /forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif

If it were me:

- Weekend sail to Ramsgate/Dover
- Leave boat 1 week
- Next Boulogne s Mer (the aquarium is well worth a visit)
- From there on Dieppe (nice, but getting pricey), St Valery en Caux (personal favourite), St Valery S Somme (nice, but get don't get your tides wrong)
- Back to UK (Ramsgate/Dover) via Boulogne S mer (?) and leave the boat for a week
 
Absolutely no need to go abroad whatsoever. However, the trouble with cruising (fairly) locally is that we're sort of familiar with the East Coast (based in Woolverstone) so we've already been to some of the places you mentioned. Also, there's a bit more 'adventure' for teenagers in crossing the channel.

I agree with the sentiment wholeheartedly tho.
 
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Absolutely no need to go abroad whatsoever. However, the trouble with cruising (fairly) locally is that we're sort of familiar with the East Coast (based in Woolverstone) so we've already been to some of the places you mentioned. Also, there's a bit more 'adventure' for teenagers in crossing the channel.

I agree with the sentiment wholeheartedly tho.

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Ok, Gravelines, Nieupoort, Ostend, Great Yarmouth....
 
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