A snap of the Helford

[dylanwinter]

 

[ChrisRayner]

Ran aground on the way up to Gweek?

 

[fisherman]

A few yards from Tremayne Quay if I'm not mistaken.

 

[dylanwinter]

A few yards from Tremayne Quay if I'm not mistaken.

I spent the night at Tremayne Quay

I missed the level bit so woke up when the kettle fell off the Origo

As for going aground...... do it all the time... gives me somewhere solid to set up the tripod

 

[Pete7]

I spent the night at Tremayne Quay

I missed the level bit so woke up when the kettle fell off the Origo

As for going aground...... do it all the time... gives me somewhere solid to set up the tripod

Quite, saves all that anchoring malarkey, just park on a mud bank. Shame more folk can't do it but they will insist on only having one keel.

 

[dylanwinter]

Quite, saves all that anchoring malarkey, just park on a mud bank. Shame more folk can't do it but they will insist on only having one keel.

If I ever go to a boat that falls over then it will have to be one of these when I get too old to be standing in a cold cockpit

there are some more snaps from the Fal here

http://www.keepturningleft.co.uk/sailing-around-britain/helford-what-treat/

damn we live on a beautiful island

 

[fisherman]

I wonder why you didn't tie up to the quay, was it busy? There's a nice bench and a stone fire circle courtesy of the NT.

 

[dylanwinter]

I wonder why you didn't tie up to the quay, was it busy? There's a nice bench and a stone fire circle courtesy of the NT.

I spent a night there

and found a hole

should have tied up by the steps of course

 

[fisherman]

Now, I purposely didn't recommend anywhere other than the steps or the SE side, due to the uneven and rocky btm where you are.

 

[Arcady]

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damn we live on a beautiful island[/QUOTE]

Really nice photo Dylan .

 

[dylanwinter]

[QUOTE

damn we live on a beautiful island

Really nice photo Dylan .[/QUOTE]

It is an amazing place - the way the woodland comes right down to the estuary mud gives it an acoustic like no other - owls and curlews at night.

I am really enjoying the sailing tender as well

 

[aquaplane]

We went up the Helford all the way to Durgan, I think I'm going to have to come back and do a better job.

 

[dylanwinter]

We went up the Helford all the way to Durgan, I think I'm going to have to come back and do a better job.

barely scratched the surface I reckon

hoping to spend a few more nights up there before I head off up the irish sea on or around the 14th May

D

 

[aquaplane]

Of course, in the true spirit of KTL, you will spend a good while there on your way back to the Solent in a few years time

 

[dylanwinter]

Of course, in the true spirit of KTL, you will spend a good while there on your way back to the Solent in a few years time

You are entirely correct - my plan is to spend a year on and around the Fal - I want to film Falmouth Week

But it has been a marvelous place to overwinter

D

 

[doug748]

You are entirely correct - my plan is to spend a year on and around the Fal - I want to film Falmouth Week

But it has been a marvelous place to overwinter

D

A trip to Fowey Regatta, setting off with the working boats racing from Falmouth, would be good sport.

There is nothing I have seen like Fowey Regatta. Put sailing races to the back of your mind, there is a landslide of other eccentric stuff always going on as well:

http://www.foweyroyalregatta.co.uk/

Great shame that we will no longer see the late night revels with Red Arrow's crew being carried through the streets - they always used to be helicoptered back to the town to join in the high jinks.

 

[Mataji]

I didn't take a photograph, but one of the best sights I've seen was when on a mooring roughly midway between the 2 pubs on the Helford. It was around the Autumn Equinox, September 21st some years ago. The tide was ebbing and I emerged into the cockpit at 07:00 to be treated to the most fantastic sunrise. It was a clear cloudless morning and for some minutes the sun seemed to completely fill the mouth of the river. Magic.

 

[fisherman]

There are many minor inlets up the river where, even though limited to HW you find a small quay, boathouse or even fish trap, a dam with a sluice gate to trap mullet. Frenchman's, you might as well be up the Amazon on a sultry summer evening HW, Port Navas, Polwheveral, and don't forget St Anthony. Everyone had a need to access the water and I imagine it once was the easiest way to get stuff in and out.

 

[dylanwinter]

I didn't take a photograph, but one of the best sights I've seen was when on a mooring roughly midway between the 2 pubs on the Helford. It was around the Autumn Equinox, September 21st some years ago. The tide was ebbing and I emerged into the cockpit at 07:00 to be treated to the most fantastic sunrise. It was a clear cloudless morning and for some minutes the sun seemed to completely fill the mouth of the river. Magic.

and you did not pick the camera up!

 

[doug748]

.......boathouse or even fish trap, a dam with a sluice gate to trap mullet....

I guess they eat the mullet then? I have caught them on rod and line but never tackled one because of the mixed reports about the eating; or is it just the fish that feed on harbour/marina detritus that should be avoided?

You never see a Frenchman taking them - that always alarms me