Cars vs boats

[Chrusty 1]

SWMBO and I were at Beer Head in the tent for the weekend. Fabulous walks and views thereabouts, much more exciting than I had thought Lyme Bay could provide. Great seeing the Weymouth firework display from 30 miles, and a pink full moon rising over the sea.

I used to drive down that way with my sister twenty years ago, and we always wanted to get to Dartmouth and Salcombe and beyond, but Beer is a village as good as its name. That's Beer Head, in the photo. It was lovely to see Devon Yawls racing in home waters.

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Hope you get the tide & time to sort your boat soon.

Yes I like Beer for a visit, not over keen on Salcombe, but I quite like Dartmouth. I suppose Going in that direction Falmouth is favourite with me. Glad you had a nice weekend. At the moment it's looking like Saturday is the earliest I will get to the boat, weather permitting, I do need it to be dry. Er-indoors says I have to make a new back garden gate first! Oh well, that will be another one off the honeydo list!

 

[Greenheart]

Getting a bit off-thread, here, but...a nice pic of Beer Bay

I'm sinfully proud of my 8 mgpx phone camera; I'm getting boringly obsessive about capturing images of all I see...

...here's Beer beach, for anyone who's only ever hurried past or across Lyme Bay, to the better-known spots, east and west.

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Worth stopping for. Great local seafood. Charming little town, too.

 

[Chrusty 1]

I'm sinfully proud of my 8 mgpx phone camera; I'm getting boringly obsessive about capturing images of all I see...

...here's Beer beach, for anyone who's only ever hurried past or across Lyme Bay, to the better-known spots, east and west.

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Worth stopping for. Great local seafood. Charming little town, too.

Well just to keep the thread a bit boaty, and in case you aren't aware of them, do you know anything about the somewhat unique fishing vessels that worked out of Beer, off the beach?

They had a very peculiar way of tacking the main sail which you can see in the video, it's not easy to do on yer own, when the boat is leaping about, I know, a mate of mine has one. They were usually sailed with a crew of two, and the bigger ones three, so it wasn't so much of a problem, they are still raced from Beer I understand. They are very stout little craft, I suppose they have to be, after all they were dragged up and down Beer beach all the time.

http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=Be...uPMjs8AOGidnfDA&ved=0CGYQsAQ&biw=1678&bih=952

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gO6WA3fmr_E

This is my mates Beer Lugger at Instow, on the Taw & Torridge Estuary

 

[Greenheart]

Aaagh! How painfully stupid I've been! It was those little luggers we could see from the clifftop, not a fleet of Devon Yawls...

...very pretty boats, though perhaps when I thought they were racing, their crews were actually fishing? They did seem almost unable to stem the tide, at times...so perhaps they'd simply hove-to.

Thinking back, I can't think how I confused them with Devon Yawls.

 

[Chrusty 1]

Aaagh! How painfully stupid I've been! It was those little luggers we could see from the clifftop, not a fleet of Devon Yawls...

...very pretty boats, though perhaps when I thought they were racing, their crews were actually fishing? They did seem almost unable to stem the tide, at times...so perhaps they'd simply hove-to.

Thinking back, I can't think how I confused them with Devon Yawls.

It's why I posted about them, I had a feeling you were confusing them for Devon Yawls. Mind you, Devon Yawls are very nice wee boats too, and they have a strong racing fleet. I don't think the Beer Yawls are used much for fishing these days, but I have seen a couple of motor launches on the beach that are very similar in design.