Porth Dinllaen

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We are planning on visiting friends at Nefyn on Saturday evening, hopefully picking up a mooring for the night at Porth Dinllaen outside the Ty Coch pub. I have visited several times previously but never stayed any length of time. What is the etiquette with taking a fixed mooring for an night and going ashore, is there a Harbour Master there that I can check with to see which moorings are free and where the owner is unlikely to return?
 
Hi Jim, As i'm sure your aware a number of us had an over-nighter at Dinllaen last year and I must admit I for one did not observe any etiquette I just picked up one of the many moorings available and then just kept an eye out for any boats arriving with a view to moving if necessary (none did).
The biggest problem with staying at Dinllaen is staying sober enough to make it back to the boat safely (oh! and securing your tender to the boat, but that's another story).
Cheers, Andy.
 
Thanks Andy.

How far out do we need to be to remain floating, from what I remember the beach is fairly steep?
 
Yes! beach is fairly steep and water usually very clear so not too far out. As far as I can remember you can pick up even the closest of moorings without any problem. On a nice day we just swim in.
 
I picked a mooring up last year (actually always have done somewhere about the place) at
52. 56.40 N
04.33.50 W
Due south of the isolated danger and about a bearing of 330 from the light.
How sad is that I flippen remember!
However the following morning I couldn,t remember where me dinghy was /forums/images/graemlins/confused.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

Dead opposite the Ty Coch the tide dissapears about 175 to 200yds on Springs.

As you go west towards tother promatory, there are some rocky bits with weed on.
As LAMBADA says its nice and clear, should be now cos the Straits has cleared up too at the mo.

Lowest water will be about 04-00 Sunday.

So get up early and check!
So that will mean about 0.8 of a metre but I dunno where 'they' measure that from!!! /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif
 
Kawasaki, there is a yellow pin in the location of the coordinates you gave.

Will it be safe to get the other side of the pier closer to the pub, by the words TY?

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Anywhere just south of the words.
'Ty Coch'
Hactually just right of the 'y' and 4 inches down from the 'C'

Hactually its quite well marked.
2 lugworm casts
1 relatively large boulder.
A lazy Hermit crab.
And bronze nut.
It fell of me prop in 1994.
If yer find it, I would be gratefull! /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif
 
Yes you can get further in than the pin. More to the right. It largley depends where there are free buoys. I've been there four or five times over the years. Watch for the wind turning, it can get a bit lumpy.
 
We arrived late on Saturday evening having delayed our departure due to a storm that blew over Anglesey and into Conwy late on Saturday afternoon. We got to the boat in Conwy around 6pm and deliberated. At around 8pm the skies began to clear and we decided to have a run down to the Bar at Caernarfon, have a look and cut back into Victoria Dock for the night if the Bar looked rough.

We made good time across Conwy Bay and through the Straits, we arrived at the bar at 9.30pm, it was clear there were no breakers but quite a swell. We pushed on out through the Bar and across Caernarfon Bay chasing the sun down all the way arriving in Dinllaen about 10.30pm, the swell cut out speed down.

We picked up a mooring 200m from the pub, just inside the rock breakwater visible in Deborahann's picture and settled down.

We were in 15ft of water as we went to sleep at midnight, I set my alarm for 3am as I was aware from Littleship that the LW was 4am.

At 3am we had 5.5ft under us and I went back to sleep thinking that we couldn't drop 5ft in an hour, just in case I lifted the drive.

At 5am I woke up to realise that the water slap on the hull had stopped. I tried to move out of my berth and couldn't. I looked across at my Pal the other side of the berth and he was hugging the back rest of the couch. I thought I had hurt my back, I turned around to look out of the port light and could see mud and grass, we had dried out.

Within 30 minutes we were floating again and witnessed this fantastic sunrise.

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This picture was taken at the same time of the pub.

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No damage done as we fortunately avoided the concrete blocks that secure the moorings and the mud was soft.

Had a great run back to Conwy in the morning with a quick stop into Red Wharf Bay.
 
James, I think the sun rise photo is just wonderful & I think that the aircraft contrail just enhances it. You wouldn't believe that it was off Anglesey on Saturday morning rather than any one of several exotic locations that some forum members post from.
 
Thanks Lawsy, I was really pleased with the way the pictures turned out. This one from a different angle looks great too.

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You ran out of water /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif - you must have used Kawasakis mooring /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif
 
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Had a great run back to Conwy in the morning with a quick stop into Red Wharf Bay.

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I know! You overtook me down my Port side by twenty feet at 30+ knots at Beaumaris.
 
He dosen't normally go that slow - I wonder if he has a problem with mud on the props or something /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif
 
Sorry Major, you must have seen the 200 tonne City of Cardiff pass close to you in the channel shortly after we passed, we saw him steaming towards Beaumaris in the Sound at Puffin?
 
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