Beaches with pubs i can anchor off in the summer nearish to Portsmouth.

[dancrane]

"...the New Inn...closed permanently."

That really is dreadful and reflects dismally on how things change unhappily, driven by unrelated large-scale economics. Twenty Isle Of Wight Pubs Under Threat As Stonegate Issues Profit Warning

To my mind, any way The New Inn might be reopened, (and it has been closed so many times before) will be worth pursuing.

Happy memories of trips by car to The Old House at Home, Chidham, and knowledge of the extremely rustic walk to get there from the Thorney Channel, may be enough to persuade me to buy another boat.

 

[laika]

Osbourne View burned down this winter.

Oh no! Hope it gets repaired

“Repaired” might be an understatement for what appears to be required. I tried to take my dad out to lunch there a couple of weeks ago. Drove past where it used to be twice until I realise it’s been razed

 

[Mark-1]

I think someone mentioned Seaview up the thread.

By chance I was in Brading Haven yesterday and walked over to take a look.

Looked lovely, although the few times I've been there it was pretty lumpy, even when you'd think it would be flat.

Pub is called the old Fort. When I was there yesterday at lowish tide it was rocky but there was enough sand in largish areas to describe it as a beach. Looking at Google earth I'm less sure!

 

[Elessar]

Obviously I know about Lee on Solent and the Osbourne View pub in Hillhead, but are there other pubs on the beach I can go to and anchor off, then paddle in the kayak to the pub.

Woodvale hotel in gurnard.

 

[dancrane]

I think someone mentioned Seaview up the thread. Pub is called the old Fort. When I was there yesterday at lowish tide it was rocky but there was enough sand in largish areas to describe it as a beach.

Seaview is one of my favourite places, I've been going back for fifty years.

In high season the area off Nettlestone Point can be absolutely festooned with club/local moorings, so I'm not sure it's perfect for anchoring.

It surely is lovely though. I think it's mostly clean sand outside the rocks.

 

[Sianna]

Osbourne View :-(

 

[lustyd]

The beer garden is ok then?

 

[RogerJolly]

LNTM on Osborne Bay VNAZ. Why does seagrass zoom in on anchorages - can't it find somewhere else to grow?

 

[Fantasie 19]

Plenty of pubs in Emsworth - plonk your boat on the waiting pontoon in the channel and then kayak in to the beach at the bottom of the main street..

 

[dancrane]

How difficult is it to visit Bosham by boat?

I sailed my dinghy from the club there in the 1980s and I've been back by car many times. The flat firm ground beside the Anchor Bleu looks ideal for stopping to visit the pub, assuming you have shallow draft and can dry out...

...but I always had the feeling that just turning up and stopping really isn't allowed there. I bet it's expensive to tie up beside the quay. So how does one visit Bosham?

(Gorgeous aerial photo by Surrey Visuals 2021)

 

[Dunx]

The Hut, Colewell Bay IoW, they will pick you up from the boat. Apply for Mortgage for bill thouhh

 

[ashtead]

The Hut, Colewell Bay IoW, they will pick you up from the boat. Apply for Mortgage for bill thouhh

Just make sure you know the way home in the dark though

 

[Elessar]

How difficult is it to visit Bosham by boat?

I sailed my dinghy from the club there in the 1980s and I've been back by car many times. The flat firm ground beside the Anchor Bleu looks ideal for stopping to visit the pub, assuming you have shallow draft and can dry out...

...but I always had the feeling that just turning up and stopping really isn't allowed there. I bet it's expensive to tie up beside the quay. So how does one visit Bosham?

(Gorgeous aerial photo by Surrey Visuals 2021)

Very. Dinghy at high tide basically.

 

[Elessar]

The Hut, Colewell Bay IoW, they will pick you up from the boat. Apply for Mortgage for bill thouhh

And book a year ahead. Worth every penny if you go on a sunny day.

 

[Mark-1]

How difficult is it to visit Bosham by boat?

I sailed my dinghy from the club there in the 1980s and I've been back by car many times. The flat firm ground beside the Anchor Bleu looks ideal for stopping to visit the pub, assuming you have shallow draft and can dry out...

...but I always had the feeling that just turning up and stopping really isn't allowed there. I bet it's expensive to tie up beside the quay. So how does one visit Bosham?

(Gorgeous aerial photo by Surrey Visuals 2021)

I've never done it, I usually pick up a bouy, but I *think* you just phone tbe Harbour master if you want to lean on the wall by the slipway. I occasionally see boats doing that but not often so i doubt they'd ever fail to have room.

I can't imagine any reason why you couldn't just put your nose in near tbe pub but it looks very shallow so I suspect you wouldn't get very close which leaves a muddy walk, amd perhaps the mud is deep and soft, I'm not sure. I've never seem anyone walk on it, except at the causeway, obvs.


Website says:

Bosham​

There is visitor berthing in the Bosham Channel either on a mooring or alongside the drying quayside. Contact ‘Bosham Quay Master’ on VHF channel 14 or call 01243 573336 to be allocated a mooring or to come alongside the quay

Visiting Vessels - Chichester Harbour Conservancy

 

[Chiara’s slave]

If the Hut is too dear, the anchorage too crowded, or the beach too full of hoi polloi, there is always The Waterfront in Totland Bay next door.

 

[dancrane]

I just glanced at The New Inn on Google Maps, and on clicking the location, the side-panel reads as follows:

...the critical bit being 'Opens 12 Jul'. Can that mean they'll soon be open again despite the bad news reported above, or is it a previous July's notice?
.

 

[stuartwineberg]

It’s for sale on Rightmove

 

[Boathook]

I just glanced at The New Inn on Google Maps, and on clicking the location, the side-panel reads as follows:

...the critical bit being 'Opens 12 Jul'. Can that mean they'll soon be open again despite the bad news reported above, or is it a previous July's notice?
.

Doesn't say what year !

I walked past it last month, still has all the tables, chairs, etc plus a load of crockery was stacked up.

 

[Stemar]

How difficult is it to visit Bosham by boat?

I sailed my dinghy from the club there in the 1980s and I've been back by car many times. The flat firm ground beside the Anchor Bleu looks ideal for stopping to visit the pub, assuming you have shallow draft and can dry out...

...but I always had the feeling that just turning up and stopping really isn't allowed there. I bet it's expensive to tie up beside the quay. So how does one visit Bosham?

(Gorgeous aerial photo by Surrey Visuals 2021)

Very. Dinghy at high tide basically.

As long as you can sit on the bottom and manage a vertical ladder to get ashore at low tide, it's easy enough and, while not cheap at £30 a night, not outrageous. We used to go quite often until Madame found she was struggling with the ladders. Now we've got a cat. I'm not sure how welcome we'd be, as the quay channel isn't very wide.

Make sure you stay in the channel on the approach, and pay attention to the cardinal buoys on the final approach - they mean it!