Mar Menor, Spain

Nostrodamus

Nostrodamus

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Anyone thinking of paying Mar Menor a visit this year just be aware that the channel does not appear to have been dredged for ages and it is quiet common for boats to run aground.
We stuck to the marked channel and still managed to plough some mud (2m draught).
Now we have got to get out again!!
 
Nostrodamus said:
Anyone thinking of paying Mar Menor a visit this year just be aware that the channel does not appear to have been dredged for ages and it is quiet common for boats to run aground.
We stuck to the marked channel and still managed to plough some mud (2m draught).
Now we have got to get out again!!
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Tsk! You would think that someone with experience of the place would have told you that it is shallow! What is this forum coming to!
 
beserksail said:
Keep away from the starboard hand bouys, 5 meters depth outside of of port hand buoys no problem.
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Thanks for that.. I will try on the way out if I can get out.

Anchoring out has been fine so far but some bigger winds are expected. Don't particually want to go in the expensive marina at the entrance but all the rest look like I may go aground in them or on the way in... know any cheap ones that can take a 2m draught?

Its the weekend and Spain and their mother see to be out. Got any cheese wire for the jet skiers.
 
Hey Mark were you watching your depth gauge ? 5m 4.6m 4.2m 4m 3.6m 3m oh ****, 2.9m 2.8m 2.5m oh bugger I hope
its mud or soft sand 2.4m 2.2m 2m 1.8m more revs & prey :D
 
Just come back from behind the islands but it is Sunday and all the Spanish come out, motor to the islands and anchor behind before sailing back.
Tried to get into Puerto de les Nietos. Thought we were going to do it but ran out of water right in the entrance. Must have been fun watching a fully fendered boat going backwards out of the marina entrance.
Had a good sail back (7 knots under Genoa) to the canal entrance. We only saw one other boat actually sailing and that was British.
Anyway.. Anchored outside the canal entrance. Hopefully we can bounce around here for a while whilst I was my last pair of pants.
Hoping to get into the marina after midnight so we can make the most of it. There seems to be no correlation between weather programs and what is actually happening here.
I saw 9 knots... now a constant 16 gusting 20 which isn't too bad but tomorrow it said 20 knots so god knows what that will be.
I blame the wife. She decided to fly home for a week or so leaving me here waiting to pick her up.
I am positive she plans her trip home around the most uncomfortable weather for me!
 
Welcome to the Med, so top end of a 4 with a sea breeze - yep, the med. Just over 20 when anchoring earlier, settled now, at least Mar Menor is all sand/mud - grew a garden of sea weed today.
Get SWMBO to buy lots of pants to bring back, Sardinia and Corsica may have a prune overdose effect :))))
 
Nostrodamus said:
I blame the wife. She decided to fly home for a week or so leaving me here waiting to pick her up.
I am positive she plans her trip home around the most uncomfortable weather for me!
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When she gets back tell her that you decided to spend the week in Tomas Maestre Marina and that the food in all the restaurants was great.

Worth it to see the look on her face :)
 
Nostrodamus said:
Anyone thinking of paying Mar Menor a visit this year just be aware that the channel does not appear to have been dredged for ages and it is quiet common for boats to run aground.
We stuck to the marked channel and still managed to plough some mud (2m draught).
Now we have got to get out again!!
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chinita said:
When she gets back tell her that you decided to spend the week in Tomas Maestre Marina and that the food in all the restaurants was great.

Worth it to see the look on her face :)
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Cruel Chinita! Personally I'd head towards Torreviega, marina (if necessary) is affordable (Brit central, never mind..) and anchoring there is good - easy pick up point for someone flying into Alicante, far cheaper taxi run than Mar Menor :)
 
+1 for Torrevieja, not Marina International though..Marina Salinas, quieter and easier to get into a berth. When I was last there a big " No anchoring" sign appeared on the breakwater end but certainly the locals ignored it and anchored in the outer harbour at weekends. Not sure if the authorities chased cruisers into the marinas though or if they just had a spare sign to use up..:D
 
Downsman said:
+1 for Torrevieja, not Marina International though..Marina Salinas, quieter and easier to get into a berth. When I was last there a big " No anchoring" sign appeared on the breakwater end but certainly the locals ignored it and anchored in the outer harbour at weekends. Not sure if the authorities chased cruisers into the marinas though or if they just had a spare sign to use up..:D
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I think it was there two years ago but everyone seemed to ignore it :-)
 
Ask for a weeks discount in Torrevieja and it makes it half the daily rate.
We will go up there eventually but I am serving my penance for not anchoring enough by hanging in here for a week.

Chinita.. can't do that... a week and a half of her being away means I miss castration Friday twice. It is usually a weekly ritual for making her live this lifestyle.
I just tug my forelock and say "yes maam"
 
Downsman said:
+1 for Torrevieja, not Marina International though..Marina Salinas, quieter and easier to get into a berth.
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We stayed in marina international on the two occasions we went in there. Depends what you want, salinas would be quiet but it is somewhat in the middle of nowhere, there is a lot going on in the bars and resteraunts at international and we had a good time there. I left SWIMBO there for three weeks whilst I went back to the UK and she had a good time, I think she would have been lonely in salinas.
 
SeamanStaines said:
We stayed in marina international on the two occasions we went in there. Depends what you want, salinas would be quiet but it is somewhat in the middle of nowhere, there is a lot going on in the bars and resteraunts at international and we had a good time there. I left SWIMBO there for three weeks whilst I went back to the UK and she had a good time, I think she would have been lonely in salinas.
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Salina is the cheaper option as as it is just me and the son a bit of peace and quiet would be quiet welcome.
 
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