New Marina on The Deben

[Frayed Knot]

Pleased to see that work has finally begun on the long-awaited Waldringfield marina!

 

[DanTribe]

Pleased to see that work has finally begun on the long-awaited Waldringfield marina!
View attachment 170769

Is there a waiting list?

 

[Frayed Knot]

Is there a waiting list?

Bound to be.

 

[nigelm]

Power, water& wifi included for £5 per night

 

[Frayed Knot]

Wifi would be pushing it a bit out here…

 

[shanemax]

The best thing about Waldringfield is the Bag Piper who stands on the cliff, in the summer, and plays to his hearts content and also the hearts content of all listening. Its a lovely spot, a good club, a good pub and a good friendly harbour master. I hope a marina does not change the area too much.

 

[DanTribe]

The best thing about Waldringfield is the Bag Piper who stands on the cliff, in the summer, and plays to his hearts content and also the hearts content of all listening. Its a lovely spot, a good club, a good pub and a good friendly harbour master. I hope a marina does not change the area too much.

I applauded him as we sailed by and was rewarded with "speed bonny boat"

 

[sailorman]

The best thing about Waldringfield is the Bag Piper who stands on the cliff, in the summer, and plays to his hearts content and also the hearts content of all listening. Its a lovely spot, a good club, a good pub and a good friendly harbour master. I hope a marina does not change the area too much.that is martini have known him for many yrshe sent me a lovly photo taken from hut window looking down river

 

[sailorman]

The best thing about Waldringfield is the Bag Piper who stands on the cliff, in the summer, and plays to his hearts content and also the hearts content of all listening. Its a lovely spot, a good club, a good pub and a good friendly harbour master. I hope a marina does not change the area too much.

I have sent thos link to martin

 

[PeterWright]

To each his own. While I agree that WSC is a great club and the Deben a charming river to sail on, I have never had any pleasure from listening to bagpipes. For some strange reason, they seem to me marginally improved by being played by a band of pipers rather than a soloist, so I never understood our late Queen's choice of alarm device.

Just glad someone else gets pleasure from it - fortunately, when I sailed from Waldringfield 3 or 4 days a week in the 1960s, no piper was in evidence.

Peter.

 

[snowbird30ds]

Piper on the cliff, what paintball guns were invented for....

 

[johnalison]

To each his own. While I agree that WSC is a great club and the Deben a charming river to sail on, I have never had any pleasure from listening to bagpipes. For some strange reason, they seem to me marginally improved by being played by a band of pipers rather than a soloist, so I never understood our late Queen's choice of alarm device.

Just glad someone else gets pleasure from it - fortunately, when I sailed from Waldringfield 3 or 4 days a week in the 1960s, no piper was in evidence.

Peter.

I heard a pair of pipers in full highland gear in Trafalgar Square a few years ago. They were playing classical pibroch music and it was rather wonderful in its way. I agree that they can sound like wailing cats but I’m not convinced that increasing the numbers does anything to ameliorate this.
We often used to stop in Waldringfield with the children, who enjoyed the foreshore. I enjoyed the pub and walking up to the shop, but not so much walking up to the main road to get a can of petrol for the boat’s Dolphin engine. There was something satisfying about anchoring in the fairway during Cadet week. Since you ask, it was a Danforth In those days.

 

[MikeBz]

... I have never had any pleasure from listening to bagpipes. For some strange reason, they seem to me marginally improved by being played by a band of pipers rather than a soloist, so I never understood our late Queen's choice of alarm device.

Just glad someone else gets pleasure from it - fortunately, when I sailed from Waldringfield 3 or 4 days a week in the 1960s, no piper was in evidence.

Peter.

Amen to that. But then I do like Marmite.

A long long while ago (1980?) I competed in the Mirror National Championships at North Berwick. On the first day of racing it was blowing hard and the rain was horizontal. A bagpiper paraded up and down the beach in full Scots regalia, serenading (I'm not sure that's the word I would use, but...) the fleet. It certainly encouraged us to get afloat fast in what looked like distinctly unwelcoming conditions.

 

[snowbird30ds]

When you say serenading I assume you mean "like being serenaded by a menstruating wookie"?

 

[shanemax]

To each his own. While I agree that WSC is a great club and the Deben a charming river to sail on, I have never had any pleasure from listening to bagpipes. For some strange reason, they seem to me marginally improved by being played by a band of pipers rather than a soloist, so I never understood our late Queen's choice of alarm device.

Just glad someone else gets pleasure from it - fortunately, when I sailed from Waldringfield 3 or 4 days a week in the 1960s, no piper was in evidence.

Peter.

You need several Pipers on that boring, nondescript, no trees no nothing Burnham river just to stop boats from turning around and heading some where more interesting.

 

[14K478]

There is nothing good about Waldringfield.

Forty years ago I bought a boat which had spent her entire life on two successive moorings very near the beach to the considerable benefit of Nunn Bros. The seller was a very nice chap who had owned her for more than thirty years and he wanted to sell me the mooring as well as he was giving up sailing. Enter the Waldringfield Fairways Committee - which hadn't existed when he laid the mooring - who vetoed this. He was so angry that he bought another boat and carried on sailing from the same mooring. Just to ram their point home they then imposed a maximum LOA rule just shorter than the boat.

On my one and only stop (CQR) I was roundly abused by the then Harbourmaster for "blocking the fairway". So I told hm what I thought of the place and have never been back.

And the wind always flukes through the trees,

You can keep the place.

 

[Frayed Knot]

There is nothing good about Waldringfield.

Forty years ago I bought a boat which had spent her entire life on two successive moorings very near the beach to the considerable benefit of Nunn Bros. The seller was a very nice chap who had owned her for more than thirty years and he wanted to sell me the mooring as well as he was giving up sailing. Enter the Waldringfield Fairways Committee - which hadn't existed when he laid the mooring - who vetoed this. He was so angry that he bought another boat and carried on sailing from the same mooring. Just to ram their point home they then imposed a maximum LOA rule just shorter than the boat.

On my one and only stop (CQR) I was roundly abused by the then Harbourmaster for "blocking the fairway". So I told hm what I thought of the place and have never been back.

And the wind always flukes through the trees,

You can keep the place.

There’s nothing like holding a grudge!
I haven’t had any dealings with the fairways committee for about fifteen years now but yes, they certainly used to be a bunch of self important p****ks - lorded over by one particular, now deceased, “member”
The present harbourmaster, Tony, is absolutely the opposite though & will always go out of his way to help visitors and locals alike.

 

[14K478]

There’s nothing like holding a grudge!
I haven’t had any dealings with the fairways committee for about fifteen years now but yes, they certainly used to be a bunch of self important p****ks - lorded over by one particular, now deceased, “member”
The present harbourmaster, Tony, is absolutely the opposite though & will always go out of his way to help visitors and locals alike.

It's one of my finest grudges. I've polished it for decades!

 

[14K478]

You need several Pipers on that boring, nondescript, no trees no nothing Burnham river just to stop boats from turning around and heading some where more interesting.

This sort of Piper would attract me:

 

[Frayed Knot]

You need several Pipers on that boring, nondescript, no trees no nothing Burnham river just to stop boats from turning around and heading some where more interesting.

I suppose we’re all different but I thoroughly enjoy visiting The Crouch - there’s probably an element of nostalgia involved as I started sailing at Hullbridge in the early 70s & kept my first boats at Paglesham.
Other than summer weekends we find it a peaceful, relaxing area. There are always sheltered spots to anchor & enjoy the local wildlife: the wading birds and the plentiful seals in The Roach and its creeks. Early or late in the season it has a particularly wild, desolate beauty.