Fowey moorings

It's a privately run service. So you have to agree this beforehand.

Not usually a problem, but I don't think it runs as late as the ones in Salcombe, which have a definite last run time.
 
I have used them after 11.30 but I have also seen someone who had been waiting for half an hour or so he said try to swim to his boat when the tide was on the ebb, someone picked him up in a dinghy.
 
Fr J Hackett said:
I have used them after 11.30 but I have also seen someone who had been waiting for half an hour or so he said try to swim to his boat when the tide was on the ebb, someone picked him up in a dinghy.
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He was lucky to survive in my opinion.

The problem for us with smaller boats and usually smaller wallets is that dinghy is a blow up thing and a real pain to get out of locker and inflate, so water taxi needed except for touch and go on landing stage and that adds to cost. As to Fowey itself, its a good place to get in out of the weather and has a small chandlers, but otherwise a fairly dull dump with little life too it. I much prefer Falmouth
 
A friend went with chums to a debutante ball in Gosport - after a wild night dancing and drinking chum and her beau decided to row across to Old Portsmouth - the dinghy tipped, he was found ( somewhat amazingly ) clinging onto a buoy the next morning; they never found her.

Times change, but the sea, tides and boats don't.
 
oldmanofthehills said:
......otherwise a fairly dull dump with little life too it.
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Ooooooooh.......can’t agree with that......you’ve lost the ability to seek out the good bits.....

- lovely convivial pint at Gallants sailing club...
- posh pint at RFYC if that’s your type of thing..
- fantastic coastal walking both east and west from the river...
- decent boozer in Polruan ....
- fine dinghy run up river...
- great dinghy racing a fine sight from your moored boat..
- shanty festival in the autumn..
- a number of events in the summer too....

No, Fowey has much to recommend it.
 
I’m inclined to agree, we all love Fowey. Walks are great, great choice of bakeries, plenty of places to eat and always something going on like the big ship movements etc. Don’t begrudge them the mooring fee the harbour staff have always been helpful and often a good laugh. I like the better rubbish and recycling facilities, just wish the pumpout was fixed...
 
James_Calvert said:
£5 per person return

If you think of it as a premium service, to save you the bother or risks of using your own dinghy after a night out, that's not too bad.

Compare it with the price of a taxi ride from your home to a restaurant and it's not too bad.

Bit pricy just to pop ashore for a shower, but that's what the dinghy is for.
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A quick plug for the DartNav taxi service, prices have been cut by 50%, so to get ashore and back from the anchorage and DartNav pontoons is about £2, or a book of 16 tickets for a tenner.
 
eddystone said:
Really?! I think its even better than Dartmouth and Salcombe
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Polruan might be OK, the cliffs around are as good as anywhere but I find Fowey dull compared with the lively and equally historic towns of Dartmouth and Salcombe. Once Fowey was a major port but no more. As for RFYC is the kind of place I would avoid. As for the Gallants, why should one celebrate an ancient group who continued piracy, theft and murder of honest seamen long after the necessities and brutalities of war. To each their own!
 
UMCorps said:
Well, for those of us who do love Fowey, the harbour commissioners have just updated their website and have added a superb virtual tour of the entire harbour, from the entrance up to Lostwithiel. It really is an outstanding piece of web design.

https://foweyharbour.co.uk/360/#s=pano10
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Superb, that’s been really well done, the drone footage is amazing.

Thanks
 
Laysula said:
Just spent a night there. £21 for the night, and dingied ashore. £7.70 for a pint of bitter and a pint of cider in the Galleon and a great Pizza for £9. £21 a night in the Helford and £8.40 a pint of each in the shipwrights and £13 for a small bland fish and chips. £35 a night in Pendennis marina and a half mile walk to Wetherspoons. £16.50 a night in Salcombe and £9.30 for a pint of each in the Ferry inn. In QAB Plymouth tonight, free berth in Marina as our home berth is an MDL marina (however, the years berthing is not cheap) and a short walk to the spoons. What you gain on one hand you lose with another.
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Thats a hell of a price for beer. I've been a non drinker for 3 years now but the last time I bought a pint I am sure it was round the £2 mark. Have beer prices trebled in that time. Or is this just silly south coast pubs?
 
At first I thought you meant £7.70 a pint and nearly fell over - but for two drinks it's not so bad.

I had to pay £7.00 for a glass of Merlot for a friend two years ago in a West Sussex pub - I tried to smile while my Scottish half wanted me to either reach for a Claymore or do a runner :)
 
jordanbasset said:
Where I live I can still get a pint for £2.05, but many places are around £3.30 to £4.50
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Yes, Weatherspoons in Plymouth do a reasonable 4% beer for about £1.50 an the heady Abbot is about £1.85. Nearly fell over after paying 7 quid for a glass of wine in one of the marina bars :-[
 
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