Pub access in Chichester Harbour?

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If we visit Chichester harbour and anchor or pick up a buoy we can get ashore at Itchenor and go to the pub and the dinghy can stay afloat. I would like to visit another pub but when I look at Thorny Island, Bosham and Dell Quay I can’t see an easy way to land and be sure we will be able to remain afloat whilst we eat. Is it possible to visit any of these places and tie up to a dock and remain afloat?

Anyone local knowledgeable recommendations would be appreciated high tide tomorrow is 14:23.
 
Seven Spades said:
If we visit Chichester harbour and anchor or pick up a buoy we can get ashore at Itchenor and go to the pub and the dinghy can stay afloat. I would like to visit another pub but when I look at Thorny Island, Bosham and Dell Quay I can’t see an easy way to land and be sure we will be able to remain afloat whilst we eat. Is it possible to visit any of these places and tie up to a dock and remain afloat?

Anyone local knowledgeable recommendations would be appreciated high tide tomorrow is 14:23.
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Dell Quay has a visitor pontoon on the North Side of the Quay. You'd need to check the depth and it probably wouldn't be a very long lunch, but apart from lack of water that would be very civilised. (Don't go tomorrow or Sunday - Regatta and Centenary day you have zero chance of finding a space.)

Alternatively go on the holding pontoon at Chi Marina (plenty of water there if you're sensible draft) and walk over to Chi Yacht Club who welcome visitors and have a terrific garden. The marina will charge you, these days. That would be far less stressful than DQ. If you still fancied DQ it's a about a 1km walk to DQ along well established footpaths. (Muddy in winter.)

Another option is anchor opposite the marina in excellent holding and Dinghy to DQ. (Rowable, but OB would be better.)
 
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There is last time I looked a good pub in Chidham -you can walk there from Prinsted but whether you would want to/be able to find a mooring in Thorney channel and then dinghy to Prinstead beach depends rather on draft. There is a pleasant area there to dinghy sail or paddle board off beach (local seascouts sail from there) but of course the dinghy might be well ashore on your return . Also do check pub opening hours around there . Not much at Prinstead . If going to Dell quay then advised to book a table as it gets busy .
 
Fantasie 19 said:
Emsworth? Put your boat on the mid channel pontoon but there's a waiting pontoon for your tender.. Conservancy reckon 3+ hours either side of HT.. Visiting Emsworth - Chichester Harbour Conservancy
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Perhaps not so useful for this weekend’s tide unless planning an extended visit.

I assume Bosham quay is accessible by dinghy at all states of tide, the crowd that run the moorings there make vacant ones available to visitors at a price!
 
ashtead said:
There is last time I looked a good pub in Chidham -you can walk there from Prinsted
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Thanks. Seemed too long a walk but consulting the map it's only a couple of km. I'm gonna do that. It's given me another idea too.
 
If you have a cycle on board which folds it’s also possible I guess to cycle . They also do food at Chidham which is for pub food quite good and it’s less commercialised than dell quay which tends to attract coach party types.
 
Stemar said:
There was a guy on a little bilge keeler in Ryde over the weekend, who produced a full racing/touring bike and all the gear and set off, presumably to explore the island. I'm still wondering how he got the bike down the companionway, and how there was room for him and the bike below.
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I did the same on my Vivacity 20 from Cowes once and rode around the whole island. Somehow I don’t feel a full size road bike would fit on the current 36 footer, although that might be discouragement from my partner who doesn’t want oily bikes in the cabin 🤣
 
Birdham Pool has a lock, which opens around high tide last I knew -1hr +/- I'm not sure if they do visitors berths, but thought I'd mention it. It's a very short walk through to Chichester Marina from BP. Your boat movements are restricted due to the times the lock opens. I spent some time there and quite liked it's atmosphere, tress, grass, old barns. A lock keeper with a parrot. Charming but not upmarket and not convenient for Itchenor.
 
The folding bike thought was not just ease of transportation ashore but also as I couldn’t recall if there were any obstructions on route along shore -clearly the athletic would be able to lift the non folding mountain bike over any such barriers but having a folder might make procecee simply-I’ve always driven there by car from Prinstead which is clearly a longer route to the pub (there being no hostelries in Prinstead) but walking along shore is possible. Personally for any craft 9unless you have a lifting keel) I would have thought a folder preferably on board.
 
We will never know what the OP decided ;)..... but I jogged cross country from the Bosham ferry past the Chidham pub to Emsworth to retrieve my car following footpaths last November. I wouldn't call them good cycle paths and not sure they were bridleways either. The pub, The Old House at Home looked very attractive but is a distance from any water. I'd favour Emsworth (as Fantasie describes) or Bosham suggestions or the Royal Oak at Langstone (by dinghy to the door).
 
FairweatherDave said:
The pub, The Old House at Home looked very attractive but is a distance from any water.
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Well yes, but that's why the two places that you can land to get there aren't overwhelmed with yotties. That 1500m walk is a feature, not a bug. I've never been there and it's now on my list. (Probably not in rain, or in the winter.)
 
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