How Far !

About 100 miles each way. Thanks to living just a few hundred yards away from the motorway & having a motorway or dual-carriageway for most of the trip we can do it in about 2 hours (including the bacon butty stop).
 
About 30 miles and 40 minutes in normal conditions but if you get stuck on the M3 it can take ages. As a local, I know most of the short cuts and rat runs if the traffic gets bad, so I can usually avoid it.

I never, ever go down to the boat when the Beaulieu Boat (April) or Auto (September) jumbles are on; the traffic is dire and it's just not worth the grief.

Generally. if the weather looks good, we hop in the car and go for it. Bramblemet and the Cowes webcam can help with the decision. Like lots of other people, boating has to be fitted into a schedule containing things such as kid's social life, (including son's sporting engagements and daughter's Sunday evening job) Mrs jhr's retail therapy needs, filial obligations and so forth.
 
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Many of us have two opptions, drive for 4/5 hours. Or sit there waiting for the tide. Actually I'm finding that, it was easier from the NW to Plymouth than to North Wales. Ok a bit more driving to Plymouth, but far better than N wales. Or South Wales, Or any where else much. In Plymouth the sea was in all the time. So deparcher time was opptional.

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Is that the sound of someone thinking about coming back "darn sarf"! /forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif
 
100miles approx A34 / M3 / M27 to sunny Gosport /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif 1 hour 45mins....

done it for the last 14 year's and i know every bump in the road /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif
 
285 Miles, Staffordshire to Kip, Scotland every 2 to 3 weeks for a long weekend Thursday - Sunday. Takes about 4 1/2 hours, just need to time the traffic around Glasgow right. Other remarkable thing is I get there and back on a tank of Diesel. If we lived too close we would not use it the same, it is our holiday cottage sometimes!
 
Live 54 miles away from boat, takes average about 1 hr.
Have freiends who bought flat aopposite marina to be nearer,they never really went out on their boat again , boat now on sales pontoon.
Have had boat at Broads and South Coast found the drive most weekend depressing.First thought when woke Sunday morning was about when to set off.
 
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At Cobbs we have a couple on A pontoon who drive down from Shropshire (apparently 4.5 hours) to their boat. That is a distance I would want to move either boat or house to avoid driving.

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That's a coincidence... couple of years back we travelled regularly from Shropshire to Cobbs, pontoon A too. Journey was a pain, sometimes 5 hours plus in summer. couldn't move house so moved boat to greece and we can be there in about the same time and for less expense!!
 
26miles now and 40 Min's travel time makes it much more enjoyable to be able to just pop down to boat and re lacks. Last year 62 miles up 3 hours travel. To far, especially if the the weather turns bad. With the cost of moorings it best to get the most use that you can.

David
 
Not far, only 12 miles / 35 mins.
On the boat most weekends all year round and the odd week during the summer.
Stayed over 60 nights last year /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif
 
View from my house.
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11 minutes door to boat.

I pop down a few times a week. SWMBO calls it my shed.

I cant hack all that travelling to the south coast (as nice as it is) every week, so I put up with the Bristol Chanel and pop out whenever I want to.
 
That would be a nice view if there wasn't a ruddy great boat blocking it! /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

Oh, about 100 miles, North Staffs to North Wales. Takes about 2 hours and it's quite a nice run. We average about 2 weekends a month.
 
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