Planning an epic voyage - well Solent to Poole....any advice???

[BarryH]

A bit of a flippant answer, but I'll take in the jest I suppose it was intended in.
Solent to Poole is a fairly easy journey as long as one puts in a bit of planning as you would for any coastal journey. Channels in and out of the Solent and Poole are well marked so its not rocket science as long as common sense prevails, you don't need big boats to make big trips. In saying that my daughter, who was 8 at the time, helmed from Yarmouth to Poole in our Tremlett with no assistance from me. Although I did keep an eye on what she was doing...

 

[benjenbav]

No offence intended. FWIW I think there's been some great comments on this thread.

 

[strakeryrius]

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Dolphin Quay is a lovely marina, noisy in the evening but very nice.


Yeah it seemed to be really noisy when that crowd came over from that neck of the woods for a curry .. or was it a chinese?
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[maybh1]

Chris

You sound like a candidate for an MBM cruise in company.

If you wife is a little shaky about boating (like I was) they are great confidence boosters. (IMHO)

May
xx

 

[dpb]

Worth mentioning that the East Looe channel changed its route dramatically a couple of winters ago.
It used to run parallel to the beach all the way past the East Looe Buoy.
The bouy is gone and the channel now heads away from the shore, marked clearly by red and green channel marker bouys.
So, if leaving Poole Harbour you turn to port after passing the ferry, follow the beach for a few hundred meters and then turn to starboard to pick up the chanel which is marked for a few hundred meters after which there is open, deep water.
I do not know if current charts include this arrangemenmt or not.
Now, whilst E instead of W could be called a typo....once....typing East instead of west?...............hmmmm!

 

[strakeryrius]

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I do not know if current charts include this arrangement or not.

If memory serves the Admiralty Tough Chart of the area does, and I know for certain that Reed's 2008 does. Haven't seen Reed's 2009 yet, but assume that it must.

The chart that Frontier posted higher up the thread shows the old arrangement without the buoys at the end of the channel that lead you out or bring you in from off-shore.

 

[Argonautical]

Hey Straker.............Are you referring to our darkened trip from Hayling for a 'Chinky'!???

We were like mice around the marina I'll have you know!!! /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

Jas.

 

[strakeryrius]

If we'd known you were coming we could have had an impromptu forum meet! A few more of those mice in hob-nailed deck shoes wouldn't have made any difference. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif /forums/images/graemlins/smirk.gif