Plymouth Hoe, anchorage?

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Is it permissible to anchor beneath the Hoe east of West Hoe pier? I'm getting conflicting info from Reeds, CA, Navionics and Admiralty charts. Also, going alongside the pier in settled weather for an hour to post a package: do-able?
 
No idea about the legalities nowadays but I'd imagine quite a lot of being shouted at, and last time I was on a mooring there - a long time ago - settled weather wasn't the issue, it was the wash from the tripper boats.
 
Anchoring close south of The Hoe is prohibited these days due to 'marine critturs'. A phone call to Long Room Port Control may elicit suitable advice.
 
eddystone said:
My recollection is that QHM issued a Notice to Mariners saying anchoring south of the Hoe no longer permitted.
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Bingo, it seems someone found a fan shell there: https://www.royalnavy.mod.uk/qhm/pl...tm-015-small-craft-anchorage-off-plymouth-hoe

Fan shells (Pinna Nobilis) are pretty cool and definitely at risk from anchor chains sweeping around and tearing them out, at which point they die. I've seen a torn out one diving in the Balearics once and it was a sad sight. It was nearly a meter long.
 
Got to ask. Why anchor there when there are a lot better places?

Suspect you could be anchoring into rock and if you can get ashore, you are along way from any points of interest.
 
I may be mixing memories as it was a long time ago but ISTR taking the inflatable ( another story ) from a mooring off the Hoe into RWYCs' basin and being made very welcome.

However on subsequent visits to Plymouth I always went into Sutton, having seen the reports that only Bill Gates can afford this now I await developments, sadly there's no way I'll be down west this season.
 
We have HMS Queen Elizabeth off the breakwater at the moment and a bunch of very loud aircraft doing their thing on Saturday (29th June) for Armed Forces Day. I shall be staying away.
 
nortada said:
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Suspect you could be anchoring into rock and if you can get ashore, you are along way from any points of interest.
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Unless you're picking up a hire car.
Anyhow, anchored off Drake's Island and got ashore, perhaps not entirely legitimately, via a pontoon in the corner of the dock N of Millbay marina.
 
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Sandy said:
We have HMS Queen Elizabeth off the breakwater at the moment and a bunch of very loud aircraft doing their thing on Saturday (29th June) for Armed Forces Day. I shall be staying away.
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Yes, it looms large behind the breakwater. There was what I took to be a helo carrier there a couple of days before. HMS Ocean? I thought it it had been sold.
 
Yngmar said:
Bingo, it seems someone found a fan shell there: https://www.royalnavy.mod.uk/qhm/pl...tm-015-small-craft-anchorage-off-plymouth-hoe

Fan shells (Pinna Nobilis) are pretty cool and definitely at risk from anchor chains sweeping around and tearing them out, at which point they die. I've seen a torn out one diving in the Balearics once and it was a sad sight. It was nearly a meter long.
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Never heard of fanshells before...now I have.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/devon/outdoors/nature/2004/giant_shells.shtml
 
Seajet said:
I may be mixing memories as it was a long time ago but ISTR taking the inflatable ( another story ) from a mooring off the Hoe into RWYCs' basin and being made very welcome.
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A few years ago we made use of the RWYC moorings and were also made very welcome. The only problem was that we couldn’t find anywhere to leave the dinghy when going ashore - QAB wanted to charge us for a short stay for the dinghy... We eventually resolved it by asking and getting a place temporarily on the Pilot’s pontoon as they agreed that there was no where to legitimately (without paying an arm and a leg) moor a dinghy for a trip ashore!!!
Things may have changed now though.
 
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