Port Dinorwic

[dignity]

I've just bought a boat out of Caenarthon, and I need to take it up to Port Dinorwic this Saturday to be lifted for transport.

I have never cruised in this area before, can anybody tell me what I need to watch out for? It's always a bit nerve racking first time on a strange boat, in a strange environment!

Any advice would be gratefuly received.

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[BrianCarr]

I have gone past both Dinorwic and Caernarfon on several occasions. There is a buoyed channel in that part of the Menai Straits. What you need to watch out for is that the buoys change sides right outside Caernarfon!

Going north to Dinorwic there is a well spaced out line of green buoys on the Anglesey side that will keep you off the shallow areas providing you keep those to port.

If you go south out of Caernafon for a bit of a spin there are red and green buoys -with the green ones on the mainland side!

Can be a bit choppy outside Caernarfon if there is wind against tide.

Dinorwic is only a few miles away which you will see on the outside of the bend in the Straits. The buoys stop before you get to Dinorwic and don`t reappear until the pier at Bangor - about 10 miles north

I think the boat lifting facility is at the south end of Dinorwic near the boat storage yard.

You should note that the straits at Dinorwic have a 5 knot speed limit

Finally, if you have time it might be worth going a few miles past Dinorwic to see Plas Nwydd a country house that runs down to the straits and just a bit further on the two bridges over the straits although passing under them through the Swellies will need charts at least.



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[salamicollie]

Are you lifting out at Port Dinorwic Marina or Dinas Yard?

Boat hoist at Dinas is at the SW end of the village.

The fixed crane (its a lovely piece of Dutch engineering) at PD Marina - NE end -is at the far end of the of the dock - so you have to enter the through the locks

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[ipw]

log on to .. conway berth holders association ... then look at pilotage it gives advice on the dreaded ......swelleys....Been told that if has been blowing westerley their can be a swell on the western approaches of the staights for days.

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