Bembridge Harbour re-vamp

[stuartw]

Went over to Bembridge from Portsmouth on Monday for lunch, and was pleasantly suprised.
The visitors pontooon is now connected to land. It has been extended and has a walkway to land, near the Hovercraft engineering place.
In the next 2 weeks it will have both electricity, water and be dredged.
It is now being operated by the " Bembridge Harbour Redevelopment Co.", who have a little hut at the end of the gangway, where tickets and fancy booklets are being dished out.

It makes a pleasant change, as there is more space, and you can easily get to areas of the coast that were a major hike before.
I like Bembridge, but it was a little spoilt with at least 8 large powerfull RIBS there, almost like a rally. They are a strange lot those Ribbers!
A short stay cost £5, which was not size dependant. I am not sure what the new overnight charges will be. They will of course be more expensive than last year.
Anyway I think the changes are for the better.

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[kghowe]

Any idea where the dedging has taken place, seen a few boats cut it too fine to stb round the last bend, after the groynes, just before entering the harbour and hit bottom, I've always tended toward the south beach as I believe it is deepest there.

Improvements sound good. May try and get over at w/e if weather stays reasonable.

KH

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[stuartw]

I got the impression that the dredging was only in the vicinity of the main pontoon. I would suspect that the area you are talking about, would be a big undertaking. To be fair, it has been like that for years. I never venture through there anywhere near low water.
Anyway, we'll wait & see.

Stuart


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[adarcy]

Stuart

Do you have any idea of depth by the pontoon now if <<the dredging was only in the vicinity of the main pontoon>>
as we would like to go but would rather know if we could stay afloat through a low?

Thnx

Anthony

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