Herm / Sark overnight moorings - non drying

[gregcope]

Hi

Anyone got any pilotage notes about either of these? This is for a 35ft keel yacht needing to draw 1.6m.

I understand there are some but searching on the inter tubes seems to find very little.

Any info welcome!

Thanks

Greg

 

[prv]

Not aware of any at Herm. You could anchor off Rosiere Steps although I believe you're meant to ask permission to stay overnight.

At Sark the visitors' moorings are at Havre Gosselin or Greve de la Ville depending on the wind direction, all with plenty of depth.

Pete

 

[Poignard]

Not aware of any at Herm. You could anchor off Rosiere Steps although I believe you're meant to ask permission to stay overnight.

At Sark the visitors' moorings are at Havre Gosselin or Greve de la Ville depending on the wind direction, all with plenty of depth.

Pete

And free of charge!
If coming to Havre Gosselin from the north, you can pass between Sark and that island the Barclay Bros live on (Brechou?). If heading to Greve de la Ville, I seem to remember approaching from NNE to avoid some rocks.

GdlV is very rolly!

 

[Boathook]

Herm did have moorings when I was there a few years ago, but they dried at low water springs to show the sea bd full of boulders.

 

[guernseyman]

Herm harbour dries, it's the only place in Herm you need to ask permission to stay overnight.
I anchor in Belvoir (immediately N of Caquorobert (a 50m tall islet) , busy during the day in high season but quiet at night. The high tide runs through quite strongly at springs, but the holding is good and I've never dragged.
In Sark, on the west coast there are about a dozen free visitor's buoy in Havre Gosselin, on the east coast there are about half a dozen free visitor's buoys in Greve de la Ville. Although apparently sheltered from swell, it generally works its way round to the latter, reduced in amplitude but noticeable. I put up with it. If it's bad on returning to the boat, just go to bed.

For pilotage you should buy the chart for E coast of Guernsey, Herm and Sark.

Broadly, for HG, keep S of Les Dents, two rocks S of Brecqhou, and keep to the middle of the entry channel as there is a rock to the N and one to the E.

For GV, having cleared N of Sark steer towards Noire Pierre (radar reflector on top) when it bears 153 deg. (there are rocks to port and starboard which this avoids with room to spare). When Noire Pierre is abeam turn towards GV.

 

[Kwik Decision]

Greve de la Ville is best avoided if there is a risk of fog, as the fog horn on the cliff above will ensure you get no sleep......

 

[Lucky Duck]

Low level cloud will also give the same effect!

 

[prv]

Herm harbour dries, it's the only place in Herm you need to ask permission to stay overnight.

Cheers, that's worth knowing. There are signs at several points on the island which imply that yachts need permission to stay overnight anywhere.

Pete

 

[Gwylan]

For GV, having cleared N of Sark steer towards Noire Pierre (radar reflector on top) when it bears 153 deg. (there are rocks to port and starboard which this avoids with room to spare). When Noire Pierre is abeam turn towards GV.[/QUOTE]

Nice spot, do make sure you check where the tide is going to be when you park the dinghy. Or come back and find it full of water. Watched helpless as crew set this scenario in motion.
Subsequent crew wonder whu I insist that they take a radio and call me before they wander off for a protracted lunch - at the Sablonnerie on this learning experience.

Herm harbour; you are granted a permission to moor - requires going ashore. Similar dinghy escapades are possible here too! Expect to carry the dinghy some distance if you arrive at HW and end up leaving at LW.

Also you will find your boat resting in little if any water. You will of course have been sensible and left the stern ladder down, put on an anchor light so you can find the boat and manoevered carefully to ensure the bilge keels have found a bit of cleaner ground to rest on.

Not an ideal place for a fin keel boat, I would imagine.

The beach off the shell beach cafe was nice for a pause. But there were a lot of odd boats with missing masts and vast expanses of white plastic and that was not the bodies disported on them.

 

[guernseyman]

Cheers, that's worth knowing. There are signs at several points on the island which imply that yachts need permission to stay overnight anywhere.

Pete

Only the harbour, believe me.

 

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I moored on one of two substantial buoys in Derrible Bay, S Sark, in April. No markings on buoys but another forumite has since suggested that they are used by the ferry.

 

[jonjo]

And free of charge!
If coming to Havre Gosselin from the north, you can pass between Sark and that island the Barclay Bros live on (Brechou?). If heading to Greve de la Ville,

Gillott Passage?

In my foolish twenties I once shot through with max tidal current south to north at half tide in a yacht with an undersized outboard. There was a whirlpool on the north side which trapped me and sent me around for two circuits before I broke free. Think the Barclay Brothers own the larger island further south.

 

[guernseyman]

Gulliot.

 

[Pagetslady]

I have used Dixcart, when wind is between NW & NE is a bit rolly and get busy close in. Also Port e Saies is ok wind again between N & SE can be busy during the day but clears out in the evening.
Mike