Lundy island

[yachtShoestring]

I'm thinking of going there for the bank holiday, any one else in the area?

 

[sarabande]

I can wave to you from on top of the cliffs on the Devon coast ....

 

[damo]

In a weak moment I offered to cover a colleague's shifts that weekend, otherwise I would be there. At least he is using the time profitably - crewing on 'Elfin Lady' on passage to the Med! Not that I am jealous or anything.... /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[graham]

I read an article in our club magazine about some new spcially designed mooring buoys they have laid for visitors. Dont know how they work exactly but apparently the chain doesnt drag around the sea bed damaging the wildlife habitat.For the same reason they prefer you to use the buoys than your own anchor.

 

[damo]

Please don't tell me yet more anchorages are going to be lost to those of us who like to use our own gear /forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif

 

[graham]

As far as I know they cant stop you anchoring if you want to.

 

[yachtShoestring]

If it is like North Haven on Skomer island it makes sense, it is free to moor, and there it is ok to Anchor beyond the buoys just not between them and the shore. I'll ask around before setting out.

 

[Alcyone]

Saw a yottie drop an anchor and over 100m stainless chain just outside there in the 90s. Place called rye rocks. We used to dive the wreck just outside North Haven, it drops off to 40+ metres really quick.

Saw another fella recover it some years later, got a few hundred quid for it, IIRC.

 

[damo]

I can understand restrictions in conservation areas and marine reserves like Lundy, but in an anchorage that has been in use for a thousand years?? Close in it is pretty bare sand - not surprising I suppose with all those scraping chains over the years.

What will be a real sickener is if it becomes mooring buoys only, with a visitors charge to use them /forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif

(PS I've ordered my stick-on "Banjo" transom board from csail, which I can hang over the back next time I anchor in the Range at Ilfracombe /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif )

 

[graham]

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(PS I've ordered my stick-on "Banjo"

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Thats fine , you have some outstanding bills for "Snow Petrel" coming. I put the address down as c/o Portishead Marina office. /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif