Family bareboat charter in Cornwall?

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I have sent you a PM. Obviously, I am biassed. But there is a reason I am prepared to leave Tigger >260 miles away from where I live...
 
We took our boat up from Jersey to Cornwall and Plymouth last summer, and our Cornwall resident daughter joined us for a week. She is very prone to seasesickness, in fact we had a very calm three weeks, but what struck me is just how many nice places there are to go without ever really taking on the sea ...the river estauries are so protected and well suited to family cruising a la Greek islands.

Tendering ashore is one notable difference
 
oldmanofthehills said:
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Plymouth area suits me better as its a shorter drive from Bristol, and my wife's family lives nearby on the Cornish side. Chartering however has different requirement and I'd go with Falmouth for that.
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I'd charter from wherever the boats were on offer. Charter out of Plymouth, sail to Falmouth, charter out of Falmouth, sail to Plymouth...
Unless you can predict the breeze 6 months ahead, it's hard to choose.
IMHO, neither would be a mistake.
 
lw395 said:
I'd charter from wherever the boats were on offer. Charter out of Plymouth, sail to Falmouth, charter out of Falmouth, sail to Plymouth...
Unless you can predict the breeze 6 months ahead, it's hard to choose.
IMHO, neither would be a mistake.
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My thoughts as well.

Plymouth is usefully nearer when travelling from up country. With maybe 3 females on board there is more entertainment, dare I say shopping, close at hand should the start of the week be horrid.

The sheltered day sailing has the edge in Falmouth but it is not at all shabby in, and around, the Sound.
 
doug748 said:
With maybe 3 females on board there is more entertainment, dare I say shopping, close at hand should the start of the week be horrid.
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A gender stereotype which, in the case of my daughters, is entirely accurate. My wife's attitude is (as always) very sensible: happy to treat the yacht as accommodation with the potential for sailing if the weather is right. I'll still manage to get the boat healed over at 40 degrees for an hour or two each day, all being well. ;-)
 
fifer said:
If I ever charter in Cornwall I'm tempted by a few nights in a Cornish crabber 24 from Cornish Blue sailing. Just the thing for sedately pottering up and down the rivers stopping in at the pubs and restaurants along the way.

Might be a bit small for a first trip with your wife though!
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I've always had that thought that if I'm chartering in the UK - it might well be one of those...

CornishCruising have a Pilot 30 if you wanted more room but similar style?

There is also a hotel down that was with a slightly smaller Crabber. Might be fine for you and the wife, perhaps less so if the girls join you. But - option to not do whole week on the boat?
 
lw395 said:
From Plymouth, apart from the Yealm, there is not much temptaion to go East, in a week's charter, going West from there is the obvious thing to do.
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I'm not saying east is better than west and the OP has specifically mentioned Fowey but I wouldn't discount the "east" option, e.g. Plymouth-Salcombe-brixham-dartmouth-(salcombe)-yealm-plymouth (or similar) depending on how the tides work for your holiday week. Lots of sailing. Shopping in Salcombe and Dartmouth and as I've noted here before I've seen more interesting marine wildlife around start point than anywhere else in the UK.

Having had the boat ashore in Plymouth all last summer I will concur with others who say that plymouth is "far" which makes falmouth that much further towards the ice wall
 
I'm more than a little biased, as I started my salt-water sailing from Restronguet, within the upper Falmouth Harbour, even though my boat is presently based at Plymouth.

You can do lots of short trips to anchor off Cornish villages on the east side of The Lizard peninsula, if desired. There are coves and beaches east of Falmouth well worth a visit for lunch. You don't need to go far to find some beautiful spots.

There's Channels Creek just below Trelissick House - one of my world-favourite anchorages, where kids from the Big House would row all 'Swallows and Amazons' around the visitors, selling their bread and home-made scones - and moorings over at St Mawes and the rather special old church in the cove at St Just in Roseland. There's the Helford River, with local oysters, Daphne DuMaurier's 'Frenchman's Creek' and the seal sanctuary at Gweek nearby. One could travel up the River Truro, with anchorages and mooring pontoons every few miles, and the beauitful little city of Truro at the top. There's a special brewery there worth a visit and lots of other attractions - just ask. One could use Falmouth Yacht Haven as a base, visiting the town ( which lacks for little ) and the Maritime Museum, while using a ferry traveler-pass around the estuary, doing ashore walks before backhauling on the frequent ferries to 'home'. Then there's the rightly-famous Pandora Inn..... Look it up.
 
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