Going to Ashlett.

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VicS

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This weekend, ( Saturday) hopefully.

SWMBO booked on a train to York

Cat booked into cattery

Neighbour has back gate key to come and water crops in greenhouse etc


HW mid morning ( tennish) so need to go somewhere not too far away Friday night.

Any suggestions

A Hamble marina ? If so which? Hamble Harbour visitors moorings? ....... Cowes ?

A quiet anchorage would be nice but not one nearby suitable I dont think.
 
Possible anchorages - but all wind dependent, obviously. Obviously Ozzie Osborne Bay. Less obviously, close in off of Hillhead (or might you get into Hillhead - ask DJE?), or round the corner from Calshot, on the Solent side, at Stanswood Bay. Otherwise, in the first part of the Beaulieu River, if you don't mind subsidising Lord Montague.
 
Ower's Lake?

Not the most inspiring view if you look westwards, but fine if you face east :). You will be the only person there; I used to regularly take Kindred Spirit out after work on a Friday and, if the wind was blowing up Southampton Water, Ower's was about as far as I'd get in daylight. I'd stop there ready to emerge into the Solent first thing Saturday, and I never saw another occupied boat in the place (there are a few resident on moorings). Access all tide as far as I'm aware, if you're in the kind of boat that would sensibly go to Ashlett.

Pete
 
Our club had a rally to Ashlett the other week, and the reports coming back all say a very friendly place, with huge breakfasts !

Limited pontoon space and a particular spot to go plus a changeable channel so worth phoning beforehand if not done so already.
 
Seajet said:
a changeable channel so worth phoning beforehand if not done so already.
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Definitely also worth making sure you have the "new" (two or three years old) straight channel layout rather than the dogleg still shown on some charts. The Ashlett sailing club website has a page about it IIRC.

Pete
 
Thanks for the comments. Will mull over the alternatives for Friday night. Predicted ENE wind will influence the final decision.

Just wondered if anyone has experience of the visitors pontoon(s) off Warsash, but I guess mid river pontoons in the lower part of the Hamble on a fine summer weekend are not going to provide the most peaceful of berths

It might be possible to go to the SC Friday night. I think it will be accessible by 2000 hours or a little earlier so still enough daylight to tie up and plenty of time to get to the pub or bar and avoid an early breakfast on Saturday

I do have a "chart" of the new entrance channel.

This is an organised rally booked with Ashlett SC and spaces are reserved on their pontoon.
 
Went there with the club on 8 June. Predicted high water was 4,2m, but the high pressure meant that it was less. We were supposed to fit 6 or 7 boats alongside the visitors side of the pontoon, with the rest rafted on. As it turned out there was only enough water for 2 of us alongside. We tried to coax my Konsort (1m draft) further along to make more room, but to no avail.

In the end the club pontoon master allowed some of us on the members side of the pontoon. If you do this, don't raft more than 2 deep as the channel goes deep very quickly. Also, on the visitors side it gets shallow more than 2 boats out, so come in as close to the pontoon as you can.

I note that the predicted high tide this Saturday (morning) is also 4.2m, so if the high pressure remains you may have similar problems.

However, if you do get in you are assured of a very warm welcome.

J
 
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