Dont get stuck here

We are planning to go in July, but not quite sure what you're saying. Are you suggesting that the work has an affect on the quality of shelter, or the work is just a pain.

I'd be grateful if you could ellaborate.

Neil
 
For what irs worth, I dont think the work effects the shelter, but I find the shelter to be far too little. Been there a few times and rolled around on the bouys in the harbour. Never again.
 
With the wind in the SW, as it is today, the shelter in Braye is quite good, but even so, if you scroll the video to 1535 you'll see a wave break over the landward end of the breakwater!
With the wind in the N or NE there's no shelter. I've not been there in such conditions but I've heard tales that weren't pretty.
 
Just looking at weather today , and seeing those waves coming over the wall it would be fairly damp even when tied up on buoy . Work is not affecting anything regards leasure boating . Sorry not to be clear what i meant /forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif If you look at harbourmaster video you can see the waves breaking over submerged part of breakwater .
 
Choose the weather.

In good conditions its lovelly.

In a north West F7 its not nice.

The moorings are very good and well maintained , the boats you were looking at were about 100 to 150ft away from the breakwater.

today would have been OK but sloppy to sleep in.
 
There's nothing 'wrong' with Braye Harbour, Alderney that isn't blatantly obvious from pilot book and chart so any competent mariner would suss that from weather conditions at the time.
But be there in a North-Easterly and you can't even row ashore!

One little known escape is to dry out on the beach, if you have the nerve. Or go rock-dodging to find a quiet anchorage on the South side of the Island - great fun!
 
Right, thanks for the clarification. I got confused at the fact that you used the works site to illustrate the conditions today.

I could probably start a whole new thread based on advise for a first timer from the Solent to The Channel Islands, (Malaprop need not respond).

Neil
 
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I'll not correct your spelling then!
But will advise (sic) you to get hold of the latest literature:
Peter Cumberlidge's North Brittany & CI came out in 2000 (£16 from Amazon) but Malcolm Robson's pilot is nearly 20 years old.
Personally I still love Adlard Coles' definitive guides - but with contributions from your truly I would, wouldn't I?
 
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