Dorset Coast closed to navigation over Olympics

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The sea area enclosed between Lulworth Cove and Portland Bill will be closed-off to navigation over the entire duration of the Olympics. There will be no 'right of free passage' from mid July through to early September. Full details can be viewed and downloaded at www.sailingalmanac.com.
This information will have implications to all cruising yachtsmen wishing to cruise the West Country this summer.

In addition, the Weymouth Harbour Authorities will be charging on average 1000% above normal seasonal berthing rates for visiting yachts over the Olympics.
 
seacock said:
The sea area enclosed between Lulworth Cove and Portland Bill will be closed-off to navigation over the entire duration of the Olympics. There will be no 'right of free passage' from mid July through to early September. Full details can be viewed and downloaded at www.sailingalmanac.com.
This information will have implications to all cruising yachtsmen wishing to cruise the West Country this summer.

In addition, the Weymouth Harbour Authorities will be charging on average 1000% above normal seasonal berthing rates for visiting yachts over the Olympics.
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Seacock,

I've always fancied time travel; here's some deja vu !

http://www.ybw.com/forums/showthread.php?t=298564
 
The lock down of the Dorset Coast doesn't bother me - I'll cruise somewhere else. I doubt the Weymouth Authorities had any choice since it was probably imposed upon them by Central Government.
However Weymouth did have a choice over what to charge visiting yachtsmen. A 1000% mark up is sheer greed, and not even the greediest Hotel in London is profiteering to this extent over the Olympic period.
 
seacock said:
This information will have implications to all cruising yachtsmen wishing to cruise the West Country this summer.
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Really? Are we also not to be allowed round Lands End to get to the West country? Or is it that yachtsmen only come from the Solent?

Suggest you chan ge your name to OldCock. :D
 
This lock down will effect east bound as well as west bound traffic, although I'm afraid it's a fact of life that the vast majority of visitors to the West Country come from east of Weymouth. Channel Coast Guard Stations regularly record tens of thousands of yachts a year migrating westwards, including all those visitors from France, Belgium and Holland etc. who are unaware of this lock down. Calling Land's End just a moment ago, they tell me the numbers rounding Land's End would be a tiny fraction of that.
 
This lock down is only covering a small area outside of Weymouth. Weymouth and Portland harbours will have access and will remain open at all times, even during the olympics.

Weymouth, although sometimes useful is not a required pit stop on the way west. And unless boats specifically want to visit most will sail straight past to the west country and won't even notice the exclusion zone.

Horrendously inflated mooring fees, as far as anyone has been able to prove, are only during the actual Olympic Games, so fees will probably be as normal for the rest of the year.

You are making a mountain out of a molehill.
 
Wake up Seacock. This has already been done to death on YBW forums. Do you think it was any different at Beijing or anywhere else that has done Olympics recently.:rolleyes:
 
"GandT...However Weymouth did have a choice over what to charge visiting yachtsmen. A 1000% mark up is sheer greed, and not even the greediest Hotel in London is profiteering to this extent over the Olympic period."

You didn't read the Almanac download or the Weymouth website. The cost of berths is determined by the extra cost of putting on the Olympics. As a Weymouth council tax payer I don't want to subsidise boatowners who want to come and visit the games by boat. If you read the Weymouth website properly you'd see that the aim is for a cost neutral event.
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GandT said:
The lock down of the Dorset Coast doesn't bother me - I'll cruise somewhere else. I doubt the Weymouth Authorities had any choice since it was probably imposed upon them by Central Government.
However Weymouth did have a choice over what to charge visiting yachtsmen. A 1000% mark up is sheer greed, and not even the greediest Hotel in London is profiteering to this extent over the Olympic period.
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I hope that they will be empty for the whole summer! Personally I will not take any interest in this all commercial affair that the Olympic games have become.
 
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