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Port Roses, Costa Brava looks like a convenient port of call before crossing the Golfe du Lion. Anyone stayed there recently? Good choice for winter time or a bit windy?
 
Going the other way, we considered roses but actually the distance is pretty much equal to palamos which is where we put into after crossing GdL.

Good marina, big berths that will take you and fuel. Entrance is sheltered from the prevailing winds as well
 
Suggest Llanca just around the corner of Cap de Creus. Lovely little Spanish seasidey spot with excellent facilities.
Rosas is also a good marina with lots of restaurants and a Spanish feel to the town which is very close.
Hurricane had a week stopover there in August.
 
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Port of Rosas is nice, you also have empuriabrava and Santa Magarerita in the same bay.
There is a windy that tends to come through in the afternoons.
 
Magnum said:
Port Roses, Costa Brava looks like a convenient port of call before crossing the Golfe du Lion. Anyone stayed there recently? Good choice for winter time or a bit windy?
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You still have Cap Bear to navigate around. Around Cap Bear there is typically 1/2 to 1 knot of current against you, and often it will be windy with the wind from the N - often F6 or more, although if the wind has been mostly from that direction for several days, it will not be rough. If the wind recently changed direction, it can get a little bumpy with short sharp wave sets.

Depends where you are headed - if you are headed towards Toulon, then you won't have any reason to be close into shore and Port Rosas will be a good place to stop. They have very efficient marineros - so no worries parking - even if the wind really gets up. Also good restaurants, fuel berth which is easy to park alongside etc. We like it.

Otherwise across they other side of the bay is El Estartit and L'Escala. There are also many places to anchor around that area if you don't need to fill up with anything.

PS my boat lives in Port Rosas.
 
westernman said:
Depends where you are headed - if you are headed towards Toulon, then you won't have any reason to be close into shore and Port Rosas will be a good place to stop. They have very efficient marineros - so no worries parking - even if the wind really gets up. Also good restaurants, fuel berth which is easy to park alongside etc. We like it.
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Yes headed towards Toulon, although I'm also thinking ahead to next winter, hence my question about wind. A few years ago we spent a winter in Porto Cervo. BIG mistake. Apart from being totally dead it was windy as hell. Lesson learnt!
 
IIRC, from early 80s, if going Rosas to El Bulli (how's that for swanking ;)) there is a BL**DY big rock not far off the coast and some feet underwater. Might be called/near Els Brancs.
LOOK OUT !

Went over it flat out - talk about brown underpants. And I can still vividly see it in my mind, all these years later.
 
Yep - we had a couple of weeks this summer in Roses
If you are just looking to cross the GoL then (as Whitelighter says) Palamos is much better placed.
However, I have been into Palamos a few times and there isn't (IMO) much in the way of good restaurants.
Roses, on the other hand has a much better range of restaurants.
El Bulli (one of the best renowned restaurants of anywhere) is closed now but you wouldn't have been able to get a table there anyway - the waiting list was too long.
For us, the best was actually one in the marina as you enter from the car park.
Fantastic raw tuna dishes.

Here is a very short video clip of Roses this summer.
I was fiddling with the drone so the video footage isn't good and wasn't really intended but I think it shows the layout of the marina fairly well.
The fuel berth is at the entrance - you can just see it on the video.
The marina is fairly well protected but we were disappointed with Roses bay - rough - man made rough from masses of boats leaving Empuriabrava every day.



Full screen link at
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ukfN_H7r38A


However, this anchorage is only 10 miles from Roses



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7coisTW-9ks&t=11s
 
Robert Wilson said:
IIRC, from early 80s, if going Rosas to El Bulli (how's that for swanking ;)) there is a BL**DY big rock not far off the coast and some feet underwater. Might be called/near Els Brancs.
LOOK OUT !

Went over it flat out - talk about brown underpants. And I can still vividly see it in my mind, all these years later.
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Absolutely - a brown trouser rock.

The scary thing for me was that we, literally, went round it without even seeing it.
It is only that I have graphical ships logs recording our exact track that I was able to see a few days later, just how lucky we were.
Very frightening.
This was last summer and there was a Sunseeker in the Roses boatyard that hadn't been so lucky - bottom ripped out.

I wrote a whole post on our experience - here - with pics/chartlets
http://www.ybw.com/forums/showthread.php?464567-To-all-leisure-navigators&highlight=
 
Hurricane said:
Absolutely - a brown trouser rock.

The scary thing for me was that we, literally, went round it without even seeing it.
It is only that I have graphical ships logs recording our exact track that I was able to see a few days later, just how lucky we were.
Very frightening.
This was last summer and there was a Sunseeker in the Roses boatyard that hadn't been so lucky - bottom ripped out.

I wrote a whole post on our experience - here - with pics/chartlets
http://www.ybw.com/forums/showthread.php?464567-To-all-leisure-navigators&highlight=
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As a general rule, I was taught many years ago to never go closer than 1/4 inch to any obstacle - regardless of the scale of chart you are using.

That would have obliged you to zoom in much more on the plotter for the track you took and then you would have seen the rock there.

There are several obstacles like that one spread around the area - but if you keep to the 1/4 inch rule you should be safe all the time.

I have detailed charts close in which are good for seeing all the rocks, but are useless for any kind of overview or passage planning, and some overview charts which are good enough to plot long distance course.
 
DavidJ said:
Bit of thread drift but just watched your fab cap de creus video again Hurricane and got tender envy of your sailing tender. Looks great fun what is it?
Cheers
David
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Hi David

Yes, it is a DinghyGo
Website is here http://www.dinghygo.com/
We paid about £2300 last year when the pound was stronger.

Several people in SC now have them.
Some of the yachties are using them as tenders but IMO, they aren't as good as a RIB for general tender work.
The great thing for me is that it deflates and goes in the crews cabin with all the other water toys.
Really just treating is a s a toy but last summer, we blew it up, and it stayed on the bathing platform wherever we went.
That made it a useful means of transferring to and from other boats when our main tender was stowed on the flybridge.
But anything more than just popping over to another boat and we would have launched the main RIB.
The DinghyGo is a very well made bit of kit - much stronger that it needs to be.
We used it a lot last year.

A (fun) winter project is to make a small DIY spinnaker for the DinghyGo - something I used to do for my old Hurricane 5.9
 
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