Ipswich to Solent - Dover or Ramsgate for stoppage?

[Bru]

Vis Dover

Sadly the chandlery's gone.

Sharp & Enright? :0

Their website is up and no suggestion that the shop is closed????

 

[Biggles Wader]

Sharp and Enright very much still there, and long may they continue. I was there last week and there are pontoons appearing in the new marina area and the new lock gates are in situ in the new canal access so it could be ready quite soon. Their last newsletter suggested late summer.

 

[Gwylan]

Ramsgate is nicer than Dover. But the sample is limited and skewed.
Also Ramsgate is an easier entry with a tide running.

Consider Eastbourne to break the journey.

Have they sorted Brighton,? We only draw 1.2m and we had to push quite hard at some points on the entrance. After having hung around waiting for the tide to rise.
Then plan your trip to get home.

 

[LittleSister]

Sadly the chandlery's gone.

Sharp & Enright? :0

Their website is up and no suggestion that the shop is closed????

Sharp and Enright very much still there, and long may they continue.

I stand corrected (and very pleased).

 

[jimi]

I must admit I'm a "keep going until I get there" person. You do tend to get well acquainted with various bits of the coast when the tide's against you ;-)

 

[Daydream believer]

I must admit I'm a "keep going until I get there" person. You do tend to get well acquainted with various bits of the coast when the tide's against you ;-)

With all due respect that is hardly an efficient way to sail, although quite often it cannot be avoided. I suspect that most forumites would rather like the idea of a quick passage, making the best use of tides. I am sure that the Op, having a long journey to make, probably feels the same.
It is sometimes better to stop & wait a while before continuing to aimlessly plug an adverse tide or weather pattern

 

[jimi]

With all due respect that is hardly an efficient way to sail, although quite often it cannot be avoided. I suspect that most forumites would rather like the idea of a quick passage, making the best use of tides. I am sure that the Op, having a long journey to make, probably feels the same.
It is sometimes better to stop & wait a while before continuing to aimlessly plug an adverse tide or weather pattern

Hmmm.. making 7 knots boatspeed with an average 3 knots against you still gives you 4Knots over the ground. I'd argue that stopping for 6 hours (in fact less by the time you moor up etc etc) is not the most effective use of one's time when getting from A to B

 

[johnalison]

Hmmm.. making 7 knots boatspeed with an average 3 knots against you still gives you 4Knots over the ground. I'd argue that stopping for 6 hours (in fact less by the time you moor up etc etc) is not the most effective use of one's time when getting from A to B

I used to be a presser-on, and did Blackwater-Brighton several times (as well as Essex-the Elbe) but age and wisdom has taught me that you can sometimes make equally good progress by stopping. If you overnight on a journey, you, or at least I, have to spend time catching up with sleep, so that by the time you put the passage and sleep time together the advantage of a non-stop trip tends to disappear.

 

[Daydream believer]

Hmmm.. making 7 knots boatspeed with an average 3 knots against you still gives you 4Knots over the ground. I'd argue that stopping for 6 hours (in fact less by the time you moor up etc etc) is not the most effective use of one's time when getting from A to B

I suspect that the majority of forumites do not make 7Kts boat speed for the greater part of the time & if they do, it may not be in a direction that they want to go. If one is tacking against a 3 kt tide, progress, even at 7kt boat speed, becomes a lot slower