Emsworth Jetty 3 1/2 hours suddenly 1/2 hour

[andrewbartlett]

I was irritated yesterday during a few days cruise around Chichester harbour . I had pre- planned to stop by Emsworth to get some provisions, have a decent breakfast and saunter round the attractive village during the two hours stay allowed on the jetty. However I was informed on my arrival that only 1/2 hour was allowed during the midsummer busy high season and a small sign was shown which I assume detailed this change. I insisted upon doing the planned activities but was disappointed at the lack of welcome shown. There were only two other vessels on the jetty at the time although the 'commercial' vessels i.e. 'Terror' the Solar pleasure cruiser and the ferry were apparantly due to arrive shortly. Perhaps the Harbour Conservancy should include such changes in its weekly bulletin. After all what can you do in 30 minutes after you have secured your boat properly?(p.s. in the title for 3 1/2 read 2 hours)

 

[neilf39]

I think the jetty is mainly for pick up and set down for crew and taking on water. Probably for the boats on the half tide moorings. Jetty is swamped by locals swimming and crab fishing in the summer so a pain anyway. If you can get to the jetty you can almost certainly get over the sill into EYH and walk in from there. You can get a nice breakfast in The Deck cafe as well. Don't imagine they charge much for a two hour stop off.

 

[rotrax]

What about the visitors pontoon and use the dink?

 

[lenseman]

What about the visitors pontoon and use the dink?

That would be too easy.



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[lustyd]

Still says two hours on the website so I'd ignore anyone saying otherwise and refuse to pay if asked. There is very little they can do if you don't cooperate, especially when all evidence points to you being in the right.

 

[Seajet]

If you can get to the jetty you can almost certainly get over the sill into EYH and walk in from there.off.

Nice idea, but EYH doesn't really cater for visitors, the visitors' berth is dead ahead a s one enters but usually has a big boat looking like a resident on it.

Phoning in advance on the Friday etc before may be OK to arrange something - 01243 3777727 - but I've never had much luck getting a reply to mobile or VHF at weekends.

Beware the very narrow and wobbly finger pontoons ( some new wider ones now ) and the fact these have a ring on the end, not a cleat; so a boathook must be ready, no looping over a cleat as you go in...

 

[lustyd]

Nice idea, but EYH doesn't really cater for visitors, the visitors' berth is dead ahead a s one enters but usually has a big boat looking like a resident on it.

Phoning in advance on the Friday etc before may be OK to arrange something - 01243 3777727 - but I've never had much luck getting a reply to mobile or VHF at weekends.

Beware the very narrow and wobbly finger pontoons ( some new wider ones now ) and the fact these have a ring on the end, not a cleat; so a boathook must be ready, no looping over a cleat as you go in...

Visitors pontoon is actually the one just past the scrubbing grid and deisel "pontoon" which is clearly marked on http://www.emsworth-marina.co.uk/Files/Uploads/Pdf/Harbour%20Plan.pdf. The large boat as you enter is a long term resident and liveaboard assuming you're talking about A pontoon (this is where all the best boats live...). As luck would have it the visitor pontoon is right next to the showers, cafe and chandler yet tucked out of the way so undisturbed by passers by. If arriving after hours just ask a resident for the code and one of us would probably let you in if it's obvious you're on a boat.
Emsworth have considerably more visitors than you'd imagine, usually from the continent as for some reason the British won't come in past the sill Seems to be especially popular with Belgians for some reason.

 

[lustyd]

Visitors pontoon is the one in the foreground on cam 2 - looks like a full house today but there is probably space in front of the boat to the right, and rafting there would be possible (the white boat looks particularly keen with 6 fenders ready!).
http://www.emsworth-marina.co.uk/webcam.aspx

 

[Seajet]

Maybe they've changed it then, that was the visitors' pontoon years ago when I was a resident for 2 years on A & C, and was there by road last week; if they're geared up more for visitors it must have been fairly recently, as I never got a reply from the office on Saturdays in the past couple of seasons !

 

[lustyd]

Maybe they've changed it then, that was the visitors' pontoon years ago when I was a resident for 2 years on A & C, and was there by road last week; if they're geared up more for visitors it must have been fairly recently, as I never got a reply from the office on Saturdays in the past couple of seasons !

I've no idea whether they would respond, but they certainly have a lot of visitors. If it was me I'd just go in and tie up, that tends to focus the mind of a marina manager

 

[VicMallows]

The time restriction on the pontoon is due to the 'solar' trip boat (which seems to need to plug in surprisingly frequently). I am surprised that after a good few years operating it is still often packed to capacity. Hopefully it makes a decent operating profit and helps keep our harbour dues in check. If leaving a dingy unattended (plenty of room on the inside) I DO suggest securing with some effective method if at all possible - especially during the school hols - because a lot of larking-around goes on.

 

[Seajet]

We were passing by yesterday, being followed by the solar tripper job as it made for the pontoon; I was surprised to see the helmsman was having to be rather active, giving the impression it must steer like a tea trolley; single engine ?

The harbourmaster RIB was also there on the end of the pontoon, not taking up visitor room, and as mentioned it was being treated as a recreational facility by lots of children.

 

[northwind]

single engine ?

Possibly at the moment, depends if they have fixed it..

http://www.haylinglifeboats.org.uk/wordpress/2013/07/1570/

 

[Seajet]

Aha !

Thanks for that, though it looked trickier than I'd expect for a twin engine cat, maybe not bad enough for running on one, and I doubt they'd deliberately run trips like that; maybe it was the quartering F2-3 seas...

 

[Martin999]

I spent Saturday Night at EYH having booked by email during the week and had the best welcome I have ever had - a very nice lady met us as we tied up and handed us some useful booklets and the shower code. With our 1.8m draft we can only enter on or close to springs and touch bottom for a couple of hours at low water. I thought twice before posting this as I wouldn't want it to get to popular

 

[lustyd]

I spent Saturday Night at EYH having booked by email during the week and had the best welcome I have ever had - a very nice lady met us as we tied up and handed us some useful booklets and the shower code. With our 1.8m draft we can only enter on or close to springs and touch bottom for a couple of hours at low water. I thought twice before posting this as I wouldn't want it to get to popular

If it was going to get popular the annual charges would have done it by now!

 

[VicMallows]

With our 1.8m draft we can only enter on or close to springs

.....and only biggish Springs I would think? You are right though that it's a great place once you are in. On extreme neaps even 1.1m draft cannot get in or out even at the top of the tide.

 

[lustyd]

.....and only biggish Springs I would think? You are right though that it's a great place once you are in. On extreme neaps even 1.1m draft cannot get in or out even at the top of the tide.

And rightly so, we don't want those big 1.1m beasts in our pretty little marina! anything over 0.5m is wasteful