Buoy for a week near Harwich? Any suggestions please.

[jerrytug]

bouy now found many thanks

Hello I would be very grateful for any suggestions..after a 36 hour chug over from Ijmuiden,I have been on Halfpenny pier for a couple of nights and have totally fallen in love with this area,and plan do do some gentle exploring of the quiet bits after weeks bashing around In Europe.
But I have to leave the boat to go to London for a week or ten days max before I continue cruising.
I would like to leave her on a buoy,by arrangement with a person or boatyard,the only essential thing is being able to get ashore and somehow get a bus to a railway station.
Starting from tomorrow ideally although I can always hang out for a day or two on the Harwich buoys,but they won't let me leave her unattended.
Draught 1.3 m, disp. 2 tons.
Thanks in advance for any leads,or on the off chance anyone here is off on a cruise and left their buoy empty...
Cheers Jerry
edited to add,can't "take the ground" as such,but if the keel squishes into a bit of mud at LW it would be fine.
Edited again to add,I have found one already!

 

[MoodySabre]

Hi Jerry - glad you got over OK.

I think that you are being a bit optimistic to find a free mooring with a trot boat! The obvious place is Shotley but that'll cost you £20ish a night but there is a bus from there to Ipswich station. Or you could just go to Ipswich (the Haven Marina is the best) and the station is a 10-15 min walk.

Certainly lots to explore on the east coast.

 

[sailorman]

Hi Jerry - glad you got over OK.

I think that you are being a bit optimistic to find a free mooring with a trot boat! The obvious place is Shotley but that'll cost you £20ish a night but there is a bus from there to Ipswich station. Or you could just go to Ipswich (the Haven Marina is the best) and the station is a 10-15 min walk.

Certainly lots to explore on the east coast.

I have a mooring @ Ramsholt but no buss or train

 

[Champagne Murphy]

Ask at Kings, Pin Mill. 15 mins from Ipswich railway station (1 hr from London, Liverpool st). Half hour up the Orwell from Harwich doing about 5kts

http://www.kingsboatyard.co.uk/

 

[jerrytug]

As ever,thanks for all your quick and helpful replies,I have arranged one at Kings.

 

[Santana379]

It might be worth contacting the Felixstowe Ferry Harbourmaster, John White (contact details in the local pilot books).

There are swinging moorings at the Felixstowe Ferry (Deben entrance), a £2 each way ferry available ashore (Deben Ferry, Ch8), I believe a bus from Felixstowe Ferry into town (John could confirm), and a railway station in town.