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Planning a trip to Falmouth for May and will be my first visit.

Not sure what the full SP is so should we head for Mylor or Port Pend? Anything to be aware of when passing Eddystone? Should I go north or south? (prawle point - falmouth).

Any guidance from you west country types on restaurants and where best to fuel etc would be great.

Any forumites in Falmouth fancya beer?
 

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Access to Port Pendenis is nice and easy, but make sure there are no huge Naval vessels in the deep water berths close by. There was an aircraft carrier close to us last year and at least one of the engines was running 24/7. Hardly got any sleep.
 

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Mylor is a bit remote from Falmouth by road so taxi more expensive to get into Falmouth, there used to be a water taxi [don't know if it still operates], Falmouth Marina is a long walk from centre of Falmouth, Visitors Yacht haven is closest to centre of town, Port Pendenis next closest. There are quite a few small restaurants around the town, From fish and chips upwards, the "Warehouse" just off the main street was good and a reasonable price.
There was a guide book "Afloat & Ashore", with plenty of details of all services etc available around Falmouth inc tide table for Falmouth, if you contact Mylor Chandlery they will send you a copy, well worth £3.00 01326375482
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Falmouth yacht haven is the best mooring for the town, very near to bars, shops and restaurants. You will probably have to moor outside one of the boats that seem to moor there permently, make sure there is a spare electricity hook up for you to use. Best to aim to get there earlyish as it does get busy.

Can see an argument for allowing cheap perment moorings in the winter, I suppose it give the town an income, but it does unfortunately seem to attract those that seem to just want to live cheaply. Boats that don't move etc.

Anyway its a lovely mooring, does get rough on the outside of the pontoon.

The marina thats down the river from Falmouth Yacht haven, has a very nice restaurant and bar, and a sell all type shop across the main road.
 

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I like Mylor, but as has been implied. forget getting to falmouth except by boat ! There s a new brasserie there thats certainly bustling in summer, and sailing/windsurfing school,cafe and chandlery,boat yard and a few newly built appartments. the whole harbour is probably less than a dozen buildings. Perfect if you want to get away from it all, but no use if you want to stroll through a town. And the rather over popular and now overpriced Pandora Inn, accessible at high water just a few minutes motoring round the corner.
As a town, Falmouth is rather nice, the new museum (which should be called museum to the history of small boats), there a new wine bar at the musuem end of town, a few pubs, and some narrow lanes to the water front with one off shops. Of course theres the normal high street chain stores too.
Bit of both marinas then ?!
 

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If you stop at Mylor there is the water taxis, assume it's still running, was for sale, but has been passing our window recently. There is also a ferry starting / started that does Falmouth, St Mawes, Mylor, St Just, Malpas and Truro.
If your at Mylor go up the creak to Mylor Bridge, Lemon Arms at the top, better pub grub than the Pandora, the local use the Lemon. Also Mylor has all shops, including a dentist now!, use dingy or walk, 10 / 15 minutes, turn right at War mamorial.
You can also walk around the headland, 15 minutes flat, to our hamlet. Ferry runs all day from Flushing to Falmouth.


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Best place in the world. Easy approach and good deep water.

Take yourself up the Carrick roads towards truro into some beautiful scenery. Stick to the channel though as there are a lot of sand bars and shallows off Mylor.

If you get right up the river beyond the King Harry Chain Ferry, you can either pick up one of the Smugglers Cottage moorings or anchor off and go ashore. Good food and a huge Malt Whisky collection. Only usually open till about 8pm. Take the dinghy all the way up to Truro if you want to (gets very shallow though). Theres a big tesco up there for provisioning and you can moor up almost right outside

Moorings wise, agree with all thats been said. Personally. I'm in Falmouth Marina up the Penryn river and I love it. Great staff and they look after people well in my experience, but, if you want to be within walking distance of town, its a couple of miles out.

Fuel available at Mylor, Falmouth marina (High speed pump), falmouth yacht haven and the Fuel Barge.

As has already been said, good food is available in town.

If you see a shiny white Fairline Sprint up the river on a weekend, that will probably be me. Come and knock on the hull, I always have a cold beer aboard.

Enjoy Falmouth and let me know what you think sometime.

Cheers

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I did the trip from Port Solent last July, Took the most direct possible route stopped at Salcombe for lunch. total running time 6hrs went south of Eddystonewhere there quite alot of small boats out angling
Port Pendenis is very tight for your size of boat and like being in a Goldfish bowl
 

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Its nice to hear such positive responses about Falmouth and its services

steve

there is also Falmouth oil services for your massive diesel needs, located on the oil barge just off flushing. they are usaully the cheapest in town
 

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Now what you really want to do, is cruise towards Falmouth. Stopping at all the wonderfull places on the way. It would be a crime to miss Dartmouth and Salcolmbe, even Torquay or Brixham, then theres Agatha Chrispies Island, The Yelm cant be forgot, Or even a trip up the Tamar. Looe, you can get inside if the tide is right or anchor in the bay for a beer or icecream. Polpero is a good stop off, with a few nice pubs. Then Fowey for the night. Megavisi, charles town and the Helford is a must. Theres [oops not nice] all at The Edistone though, so I would be about 8 miles inside it. /forums/images/graemlins/cool.gif
 

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Was Planning to do it the opposite way round... Get to Falmouth PDQ and then coast hop back to the solent, taking in Fowey, Salcombe, Dartmouth, Torquay etc.

I did want to get round to St Ives, but there doesn't seem too much round that West coast... besides I'd need a lot longer to do that trip. Will have to plan that as a longe 2 week expidition.
 

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well this is what happened to us at Falmouth last year... been there quite a few times since, but thankfully not as exciting as this visit....


Ever Had that sinking feeling!!
#519896 - 22:00 27/05/2004

Or the Perils of Mucky Farter.

Once upon a time last week. Me and Debs sets off from Plymouth on one of our wild adventures. Ten miles down the coast Looe looked very inviting, so dropping the anchor in the bay, we were soon in the local chip shop. Down the coast in Polpero, we tied to the harbour wall, well the end of it actually which was only ten feet wide. MF insisting that she wished to park on the corner of the wall and not the flat bit. Anyhow the pub was very inviting so just time for a pint before rushing back to see wot damage had been done. Luckily the answer was not a lot, even though the sea was heaving a little bit. Anyway setting off proved a little bit more difficult. Thing was, I had to use the engines to keep the boat steady while Deb untied the various knots in the string, trouble was that once untied MF wandered back and forth to and from the wall and Deb half way down the quay ladder refused to jump!! So next plan B, moves round and held bows three inch off the ladder. Still Deb refused to budge. So moving in a little closer MF tupped her from behind. This seemed to give the desired encouragement and she landed on the deck in a lump to a loud applause from the surrounding audience.. Fowey was it’s usual glorious self, the pubs hard to fault too. Next day it’s off to Falmouth then up the river Fal. Reckless the raggy was aground on the sand bank while down stream outside Mr Newmans place there was an enormous row going on on Happy Days owing to Mrs Happy having lost the boat hook overboard and Mr Happy being unable to manuver the boat back to it!! They also insisted strongly that they were not aground when we delivered the boat hook back to them…even though they were pointing in entirely different direction to all the other boats!!

Next we went up the Helford river and took the dinghy to the pub. Now the idea was that we would stay at the pub until the tide reached the dinghy wot we had put up the beach.. Well the water reached the dinghy but thinking there was still time, we staid put. Next thing was, the dinghy leaped into the water and started to escape like buggery!! So rushing down to the water I finished up, up to my chest in water before catching hold of the escapee.!!

Back in Falmouth that night Deb noticed the bilge pump on. So I tightened up the prop shaft thingy bits and went to bed.

Wots that water sound says Deb at seven am?? There was a definite sound of running water, even though my head was a bit slow at the time. Eventualy realising that the sound was coming from down below, I slung the table out and lifted the floor.

AAaaRRRrrrrGGggggg!! There was water running from the front bilge and waterfalling down into the engine room. It was like an out take from Titanic!!
Not only that, but even though the bilge pump was lit up, sod all water was being pumped out the boat. Presence of mind persuaded me that the likely cause of leak from the bows was the bog inlet or maybe outlet pipes, so I lifted the hatch. AAAaaaaRRrrrrGggggg! It’s full to the brim with water. Kate Winslet could have swam in it!! So reaching down about a foot into the murky depths, I tuned the sea cocks off. Trouble was, water was still pouring through the hole into the engine room and no way could I know if I’d stopped the leak. Next I’m hunting for the mobile phone to ring the harbour master and get some pumps, but cant find it in all the junk I’d thrown out on to the patio. So I tried to raise him on the radio, but I suspect he was still in bed. Now not wanting to sound alarmist but not ready to give up. But feeling a bit of a chump at the time. I called Falmouth coast guards. Now wot was going through my head at the time, was a story I read in readers Digest years ago, about how to deal with a half crisis and the trouble this family got into trying!!
Position? how many on board. Range and bearing?? Safety gear carried??
Anyway I managed to get them to wake the bloody harbour master from his slumber without causing all that much fuss and the pilot boat crew came round, followed by a boat with a petrol motor pump on it but only about three feet of pipe and then the harbour master demanding 25 quid for his crews overtime, even though they’d done F all. But Deb says that they did do it all very nicely and kindly. (Hope this helps!!) Deb mean while was lazily operating the hand bilge pump and wander hose with her foot. However by now it was producing the desired effect and the broken bog pipe coupling had reared it’s ugly head from the depths of the forward bilge.

Deciding to head for Plymouth for repairs, off we goes in dead flat sea, but as we gets half way the waves get bigger and bigger. Also noted was the starboard engine was going slower and slower, then course there’s the hole in the boat and the failed bilge pump as well!!

Back in my marina in Plymouth, there hosting the transatlantic single handed rag race. Why a load of seemingly sensible blokes want to sail about in a place where I know for definite, there is no pubs or crumpet, has me seriously worried about there sanity. However…….
Merv’s round next morning. New bilge pump and bits of pipe, we even mended the mysterious fuel leak as well as discovering that the fuel filters were clogged with [oops not nice] and it being only May!!! Big dose of Soltron added. Pit stop completed by 11 30. So not much time lost really, Deb says Salcolmbe would be nice. Who the hell did we meet on the approach to Salcolmbe. LJS of course!!!
 

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Sounds like you guys had fun!!!! Lets hope the trip is as enjoyable and eventful.

So as your in Plymouth is it wort h a visit? The pilot book doesn't say too much about it....

Include it or not whaddyarekon?
 

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There's 2 pubs as well as the yacht club, all within a few hundred yards of each other, one pub pretty up market, the one by the slip but the other does good food but scruffier. You'll love the Yealm, great place.
 

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Nothing wrong with Plymouth, depends what you want, personally I'm not into marinas much, especilly if there posh.
QAB is very central for The Barbican, though bridge shuts at 9-30pm Theres a posh bar brasier thingy there. Sutton marina, I have not managed to get into for years. There are buoys behind Drakes Island and up the cattewater.

Plymouth from my point of view is an excelent base, or for repairs etc. But then I'm not interested in big towns. Restraunts, cant even spell it!! Excelent chinees in the Barbican though. Just up the main street to the Plymouth gin place. I would amble down from Solent. Done it many times, maybe even in good weather, go around Lyme bay, theres loads of places to visit, though Exmouth is not spectacular. So head for Torquay. Two little pubs up a back street if you want to get away from the local skin heads. Brixham only a mile or two away, much more tranquel. Dartmouth. Try to get on the town quay, a pontoon with electric would you believe!! I would call at a few places down and the others on the way back. You will never do them all going the same way. There are very few dangers, though start point can be a little bit bumpy at times. Errm. Very bumpy!! So do you like little nooky type places or big marina thingies. The choice is yours??
 

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Slipping back into Falmouth mode for a minute....just an addenda to what all the other old salts have said.......went to the new brasserie at Mylor a few days ago, food still good but prices have shot up tremendously since last season. Pandora's, again crap beer, over-priced not very good food.
Good food still to be had at very reasonable price at the 7 Stars in Flushing.
Good beer, good atmosphere but bad food in the Chainlocker in Falmouth.
Would love to meet up for a beer. When you coming?
SORRY TO SHOUT ON THE FORUM.....DON'T USUALLY, BUT........ANYONE ELSE HEADING FOR FALMOUTH...FROM JUNE ONWARDS FOR A COUPLE OF MONTHS, FALMOUTH MARINA ARE DREDGING ALL THEIR CHANNELS AND WILL BE SHUFFLING PONTOONS AND BERTH HOLDERS AROUND LIKE THE CLAPPERS. There....I've stopped shouting.
 

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Thanx Haydn..

Am rather partial to snooky out of the way places, as the boat is self sufficient all we need is food on board and diesel. can make leccy and water hence the attraction of getting away from the Solent to Falmouth Fowey and the like..

Did up to Dartmouth last year so want ot go further.

Did find a great Restaurant in Torquay tho No 7! excellent fish!
 
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