Interesting places to visit in your area

[clyst]

Hi all

My wife and I plan a leisurely cruise around the UK and are currently compiling a list of places to stop over / visit . From Padstow we dont intend to shoot straight over to Milford haven but to crawl up the Cornish and Devon coast and Somerset if its interesting enough .

So guys help and local knowledge needed !! Where are the interesting places to visit in your cruising area .

Having dropped the mast can Bath be accessed (drawing a couple of feet with the keel up)
from Bristol ? Would we need a "Boat Safety cert" to navigate the Avon to bath ??

Thanks

Terry

 

[Bosun Higgs]

You dont say anything much about the size of your boat and some pleasant places in the channel wont take boats of any real size. For example, Porlock Weir is very pretty but I wouldnt try to go in there with anything much above 34 foot.

You can download a guide to the Kennet and Avon canal from here . As far as I can see its a broad canal so your probs are likely to be draft and air draft.

 

[sarabande]

if you can take the ground fairly easily, then Watermouth Cove is worth a one day stopover. Stunning scenery on the approach and departure, and clear blue Atlantic water until the Brissol Channel ebb starts !

Otherwise the joys of Hinckley Point Nuclear Power Station are there to entice you from Minehead to Watchet, where you can play on one 'my' steam trains.

Further up stream, you might time your visit to include a sight of the Severn Bore (who is not a member of this Forum but it would be a dam' good name !)

http://www.severn-bore.co.uk/


and a bit of a commercial page, but does give some info about W.Cove.
http://www.watermouthcoveholidays.co.uk/index.html

 

[Gwylan]

Assumption is that you can 'take the ground' for some of these.
Votes for Padstow, St Ives, Watermouth, Porlock Weir - if you are 24 feet and turn on a sixpence - and do not go to the Hotel.
Oxwich & Port Eynon bays, N side of the Gower
Lundy
Tenby
Dale - anchor, borrow a mooring or use the pontoon, or if you can dry go up to the pontoon - nice pub, good food and you may get a shower in the sailing club.
Solva, dodge the big rock and the dinghy fleet, then Porthgain - both for the adventurous, anchor in Lower Fishguard.

See earlier posts for Cardigan and the Teifi.
Newquay, Aberaeron
Rather have a sex change op with a blunt spoon than go to Aberwystwyth!
Barmouth, never been there by boat, but it looks interesting
Aberdaron - great safe anchorage, normally.
Port dinllaen
Do not on any account think of going into Trefor - death is preferable. Well I tried one and the other must be more fun.
Caernarfon and through the Menai - been around Anglesey and it's over rated.
Conwy, another well managed Quays Marina
Fleetwood has nothing to recommend it, except it's there and a not quite
Workington, an interesting
Portpatrick, just for the fun of getting in there, make sure you arrive before everything closes and do not expect to buy fuel
After that you are on your own, there are too many nice places and we should not encourage too many visitors

 

[Alcyone]

I'd definitely pop ashore at Lundy. A stunning place, Have a beer and a meal in the Marisco. On your way back out of the channel, have a look around milford, and sail up the river to Llangwm. We had amooring there last summer, and it's fantastuc to go past huge oil tankers and then, a mile or two upstream, be amongst beautiful unspoilt wooded river banks. Plenty of places to stay in the Haven too, and to Fuel up and victual before heading North.

And if you get to Cardiff. Pop in at Cardiff yacht club. We have a visitors pontoon. I'm sure you'll get a warm welcome, Cardiff Bay yacht club too, for that matter.

 

[Sandyman]

Rather have a sex change op with a blunt spoon than go to Aberwystwyth!

Agreed. The place is a dump

Conwy, another well managed Quays Marina

Again. Agreed. Had a great time there. Invited to the bertholders annual dinner. Great folk.

Portpatrick, just for the fun of getting in there, make sure you arrive before everything closes and do not expect to buy fuel

Getting in there ?? Oh yes watch out for the rocks on your port side just as you come round to port to enter the harbour itself. Often evidence of peeps mistakes. The HM is an amazing chap. Let him take your lines or you will hear the reasons why you should have asked him too.

 

[fergie_mac66]

Clovelly and Lundy not to be missed

Clovelly well worth a visit If you can take the ground £7 a night against wall . If not. Really good anchorage (specially in southerly winds )a cable or so out and dingy in

http://www.clovelly.co.uk/

If you can get a look at Hugh Fernley-Whittingstall clovelly herring festival episode was on over xmas Theres a link to the episode on the above clovelly site

Also I agree with :

I'd definitely pop ashore at Lundy. A stunning place, Have a beer and a meal in the Marisco. On your way back out of the channel, have a look around milford, and sail up the river to Llangwm. We had amooring there last summer, and it's fantastuc to go past huge oil tankers and then, a mile or two upstream, be amongst beautiful unspoilt wooded river banks. Plenty of places to stay in the Haven too, and to Fuel up and victual before heading North.

And if you get to Cardiff. Pop in at Cardiff yacht club. We have a visitors pontoon. I'm sure you'll get a warm welcome, Cardiff Bay yacht club too, for that matter.

A few pics Of both on Photobucket see sig

 

[Alcyone]

Hey Fergie, when will you be at the club? You're bringing your boat there, is that right?

 

[fergie_mac66]

Hey Fergie, when will you be at the club? You're bringing your boat there, is that right?

H Martin
hopefully next 2 or three weeks. We were coming the weekend when it snowed but we got 14 inch on our road ! and no snow plough turned up . Im 2 old to dig 300 yrds of snow by myself and no other man nor beast would stir. I think they all went to bed for a week. still got a pile of snow outside our house at the gate post now

 

[Alcyone]

H Martin
hopefully next 2 or three weeks. We were coming the weekend when it snowed but we got 14 inch on our road ! and no snow plough turned up . Im 2 old to dig 300 yrds of snow by myself and no other man nor beast would stir. I think they all went to bed for a week. still got a pile of snow outside our house at the gate post now

Great. A number of us are doing the YM theory on Tuesdays/Weds but drop me a line, here or the club forum if there's anything you need a hand with.

M.

 

[Allan]

Is it true that, as he has a cat, Fergi Mac has to buy twice as many rounds in the bar?
Allan

 

[fergie_mac66]

Is it true that, as he has a cat, Fergi Mac has to buy twice as many rounds in the bar?
Allan

swmbo (Jacky) says as cats have twice as many moorings to pay for we should only have to pay for half as many rounds mind you so far we have not had to pay multiplier for the cat even in Portishead .
edit: which as being from yorkshire would mean i would have to get a bigger anchor to anchor off more