Plymouth Sound, Jennycliff, anchoring?

[Ian_Edwards]

I wondering about anchoring for a few nights in Plymouth Sound to get some rest after a single handed trip down from NW Scotland.
In the past I've anchored in Jennycliff close to shore in about 5 to 6m (draft keel down 3
3m). But that was in 2020.
I've also used Sutton Harbour, which is convenient by very expensive, and Plymouth Yacht Haven, which was expensive and not very comfortable (they put me on the outer pontoon/breakwater) the boat was almost continuous rolled by passing traffic. I also found the staff very unhelpfull.
I'll be single handed and don't really need shore side facilities.
I notice an area labeled "high speed area" on some charts, and I've seen various posts about a voluntary no anchoring area associated with seagrass, but I don't see that on this year's 1967 Plymouth Sound chart, but it is marked as an anchoring area for vessels with less than 7.5 draft.
Does anyone have upto date local knowledge of the current of state Jennycliff for anchoring for a few days.

 

[doug748]

Jennycliff is fine, I usually pick a spot about 100 metres south of the Fylrix green buoy but there is lots of room. Unless they have been removed in the last few weeks to seagrass buoys are still there though the project has fizzed out, they won't bother you too much:

Largest UK seagrass restoration project to end after five years

The BBC still likes to broadcast a lot of voodoo science but the upshot is that seagrass likes to pick it's own growing environment, rather than where activists think it should grow or where, in their imagination, it once grew.

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[oldbloke]

I've never anchored jn Jennycliffe, but have started races from down there. The committee boat gets quite bouncy in any wind. Isn't the anchorage exposed and bouncy too? I would always anchor in Cawsand or Cellar Bay at the entrance to the Yealm

 

[[70521]]

If this works I've posted a link to a shared document about anchorages around Plymouth. It might be helpful.

Shareable – Google Drive

 

[Ian_Edwards]

Thanks Sandy, very useful.
Unfortunately, we won't be able to get to some of the more interesting anchorage higher up the Tamar, our air draft is over 23m,incuding the VHF antenna. However, the boat is a Southerly, so I can raise the keel and dry out at low water, our minimum draft is 0.8m, so I may try try that at some point.

 

[chris-s]

Cawsands across the way is a good spot.

 

[dansaskip]

Jennycliff and Cawsand both good anchorages - choose between them dependant on wind direction and weather