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Talulah

Talulah

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Having just started a new job away from home I'm moving the boat from Gosport to Ipswich Haven. (I can only take B&B for so long plus there is the cost aspect.) The boat will act as mid week accommodation.
The plan is to relocate the boat over two weekends. This weekend I'll get to either Dover or Ramsgate.
Now next weekend I'll have less distance to cover so it would be nice to stop somewhere Saturday night.
Anyone like to suggest where?
Sail boat 11.8m. 1.85m draft.
 
Talulah said:
Having just started a new job away from home I'm moving the boat from Gosport to Ipswich Haven. (I can only take B&B for so long plus there is the cost aspect.) The boat will act as mid week accommodation.
The plan is to relocate the boat over two weekends. This weekend I'll get to either Dover or Ramsgate.
Now next weekend I'll have less distance to cover so it would be nice to stop somewhere Saturday night.
Anyone like to suggest where?
Sail boat 11.8m. 1.85m draft.
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Wrabness, the sunsets are wonderful
 
I'd get yourself into the Orwell in one tide from Ramsgate. If the weather is tame Halfpenny Pier is great for a night.

If you turn left toward the Medway, Swale or Queenborough, you'll still have a full on day on Sunday to get to Ipswich.

Burnham as nice as it is always feels like you're going back the same way for 2 hours approached from the South, the Blackwater is better, only issue might be you'll be arriving LW ish if you come up with the tide and might not be able to get in to Brightlingsea or Bradwell.

Hope it goes well!
 
Hi Talulah,

You'll have got the message by now that there really isn't a logical place to stop on a passage from Dover or Ramsgate to Harwich, work your tides right and it's an easy one day trip.

However, once into Harwich, you're almost spoiled for choice. You already have two excellent suggestions: the anchorage at Wrabness on the Stour and a night alongside Halfpenny Pier in Harwich, if it's not too bouncy, where dinner ashore in the local hostelry, also named the Pier, is not to be missed. If however you're looking for a more sheltered berth, the River Orwell has many choices before you get up to the lock into Ipswich Wet Dock. Just 1 hour upriver from Harwich, on the north bank, you will find Suffolk Yacht Harbour, where I'm sure you would find a berth and the opportunity to enjoy dinner in the Haven Ports Yacht Clubhouse / lightship, LV87: hpyc.com

Dinner is served from 1800 to 2130 on Fridays and Saturdays in the winter. That would leave you Sunday free to explore the Orwell estuary and lock into the Wet Dock before dusk.

I should point out that I am a member of HPYC and have an interest in Suffolk Yacht Harbour.

Peter.
 
pyrojames said:
If I had the time to stop somewhere quiet and peaceful, I'd go for Pyefleet, or Osea Island up the Blackwater.
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Both nice, but a long way in and a long way out again and both involve the Spitway, which is "Quite Advanced East Coasting"* and might cause Alarm and Despondency in a Channel sailor!

The circumnavigation of Horsey Island by keelboat and the Havengore route are "Very Advanced East Coasting".
 
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Minn said:
Both nice, but a long way in and a long way out again and both involve the Spitway, which is "Quite Advanced East Coasting"* and might cause Alarm and Despondency in a Channel sailor!

The circumnavigation of Horsey Island by keelboat and the Havengore route are "Very Advanced East Coasting".
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Guilty as charged. 'A Channel Sailor'.
I did however complete phase 1 this weekend arriving in Ramsgate at about 9:30 this morning. It might take me a while before I earn the right to fly the East Coast Burgee.
 
Talulah said:
Guilty as charged. 'A Channel Sailor'.
I did however complete phase 1 this weekend arriving in Ramsgate at about 9:30 this morning. It might take me a while before I earn the right to fly the East Coast Burgee.
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No qualification or experience necessary, merely a sounding of between 2m and 3m that leaves you thinking "I see we're in deep water". Then you can fly the flag.
 
Gladys said:
...and of course having your echo sounder shallow alarm set to the lowest it will go....
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pyrojames said:
I had to turn mine off!
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I'll never forget tacking up Southhampton water on a big X boat my mate was buying, the skipper sent with us on the test sail got really excited about depth when we had 8 m under the boat!

0.8 m doesn't get me that excited around here.
 
Biggles Wader said:
I bet that was cold.Did you avoid the fog ok? Vis was about 100 yards in some places.
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Some fog but not too bad. 15 minutes after I arrived in Ramsgate the visibility dropped next to nothing. Any later and I would have had a job finding the entrance.
Last year I bought a box of 40 pairs of handwarmers. This was to replace the previous years box that I could no longer find. Of course when I went to stow them away the first box was there. So this weekend there was no sparing of disposable hand warmers. They made a hell of a difference to staying cosy.
I anchored off Dungerness Power Station at 23:30 and resumed at 0430. Just long enough to get a reasonable amount of kip and wait for the tide to turn. Not suitable for everyone due to the swell.
 
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