I don't think so - our course seemed quite clear of pots - and we were maintaining a very good look out and were early in the tide, so pot markers were unlikely to have been dragged under. The water on the E. side was pretty much flat calm with very few pots in evidence.Interestingly, you didn’t see a single pot in your waySomething to do with the ruffled water I daresay.
Seasonal?Interestingly, you didn’t see a single pot in your way
Bad weather? Preventing them being dropped, that is. It’s usually pretty full of them, worse than inshore at Lymington.
Good heads up about Lymington as we'll be there (for the 1st time) soon.
It would have to be really bad. A friend of mine was a pro fisherman out of Shoreham for 40 years. All sorts including pots. I've partied with him and his mates. Nutters!!
Anywhere less than 5m you need to be especially alert to it. Tacking up the shore against the tide it’s a real headache. Hopefully you’ll avoid that with decent passage planning. Yarmouth well worth a visit too, cheaper than Lymington and no tedious trip up a river to get there. Though you have to watch out for madmen in their XODs on race days, we appear suddenly, from behind the pier
We're rather on a "go everywhere" trip, so I suspect Lymington, Yarmouth AND Keyhaven will all be tested!Anywhere less than 5m you need to be especially alert to it. Tacking up the shore against the tide it’s a real headache. Hopefully you’ll avoid that with decent passage planning. Yarmouth well worth a visit too, cheaper than Lymington and no tedious trip up a river to get there. Though you have to watch out for madmen in their XODs on race days, we appear suddenly, from behind the pier
You’re welcome to drop me a pm if you are in Yarmouth. We are south of the bridge, you’ll be in the main harbour or on the buoys outside.
I've done shore dives off the end of the Bill, "a stones throw" is not an exaggeration. It shelves down at about 60°.
Other top spots are off Old Harry if you are coming into Poole from the west. Leaving Poole through the inshore East Looe channel and over Christchurch Ledge then down into North Channel.
I watched the Sailing Brothers on Youtube go through the race and that was enough to tell me not to take the family that way. This year due to timings we kept well offshore.Later, secured in Weymouth, I asked him why he'd taken us through there. "So you've now seen what it's truly like, and so you'll never go through there wind-against-tide ever again..."
We sail straight through other races without finding them much like that. Rough and uncomfortable, definitely. Multis float high, and are light, we get picked up by the crests rather than getting much green water on deck. Nonetheless, Portland is, we are all told, the worst. We wouldn’t deliberately risk that.
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