Port Leucate

[DERF]

I'm taking the boat from Mallorca to Port Leucate on Monday, for its road haul back to Puerto Solento

Anyone been to Leucate? I know nothing about the place. Will probably approach by nightfall as I intend to make it in one dash.. Guestimate 13 hrs from Dragonera..

Anyone done the trip?



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[tcm]

i've been past several times, not been in. Can't be blimin 13 hours can it? - 200 miles ish surely so i wd guess 8-10 hours gentle cruise? Stay as far offshore as poss cos there is a load of flotsam in the water around that coast such as pallets. I spose i wd try and start in the dark rather than finish in the dark really. inside the harbour, make sure you stay to the left for the southern port - the northern basin is apparently a nudist port and village! harbourmaster it sez here is +33 468 40 91 24 praps callahead and ask the weather?



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[tcm]

Re: ooer!

also, don't go on flippin monday there's a force flipping 8 : have a look at meteo france.

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[Corrado100]

tcm's right - much better to leave a port you know in the dark than arrive at one you don't in the dark! especially if there's dodgy weather AND floating things predicted, let alone the usual 'ots in the fairway

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[Col]

You don't want to be near the Gulf de Lions in the afternoon either

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[tcm]

Re: erm, DERF come in please

i lied about the wind. It's a force 8 or 9. But it mite ease off to a 7 ish later on monday, stil on the nose tho, ahem, and will have been blowing from today all weekend so a right ole kicking due, with broken furniture and hardly-moving 5 knot hellishness into the waves. altho the upside is that if the boat survives it will likely be quite clean onthe outside at least, albeit a teensy bit bustified

I wd think that instead of one-shot long sea passages, the best thing in weather like that wd be to consider shorter coastal hops, maybe - such as erm walking to the marina office, then the shower block, then the bar, then a chandlery perhaps, and then to a restuarant for lunch...

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