Nick_H
Well-Known Member
It's my turn to organise our annual camping trip for old school/uni mates and their families, and i'm looking for ideas for a daytime activity. There will be 30-35 people, roughly half adults, half kids, and the date is Sat 13th July. We'll camp in the New Forest somewhere, and my idea was to spend the morning sailing over to the Isle of Wight, walk to a pub for lunch, then sail back again.
The problem is I need to keep the budget for the activity to about £100 per family of four, which will rule out chartering several yachts with skippers for the day. We do have use of a motor boat that would take about 10 people, so we could get away with sailing capacity for 24. Does anyone operate something like the catamaran trips you find in holiday destinations that would take this many people.
Alternatively, we could camp just outside Beaulieu and I thought about dinghy sailing down the river and back, but can't seem to find anyone that offers such trips. Anyone know of a company that might bring 10 or so suitable dinghys over for the day. We probably have enough people in the group with dinghy sailing experience to get one in each boat.
Any other ideas?
As a leftfield option, if there are any charter yacht operators on here, would anyone consider a swapping arrangement, whereby you provide some form of suitable yachting experience for the day, and in return I can offer a weekend on a 60' motor yacht based in Antibes in the South of France at the end of June or start of September. It's fully coded, and a skipper could be arranged.
The problem is I need to keep the budget for the activity to about £100 per family of four, which will rule out chartering several yachts with skippers for the day. We do have use of a motor boat that would take about 10 people, so we could get away with sailing capacity for 24. Does anyone operate something like the catamaran trips you find in holiday destinations that would take this many people.
Alternatively, we could camp just outside Beaulieu and I thought about dinghy sailing down the river and back, but can't seem to find anyone that offers such trips. Anyone know of a company that might bring 10 or so suitable dinghys over for the day. We probably have enough people in the group with dinghy sailing experience to get one in each boat.
Any other ideas?
As a leftfield option, if there are any charter yacht operators on here, would anyone consider a swapping arrangement, whereby you provide some form of suitable yachting experience for the day, and in return I can offer a weekend on a 60' motor yacht based in Antibes in the South of France at the end of June or start of September. It's fully coded, and a skipper could be arranged.
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