Redhorn Point, Poole Harbour

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Can anyone offer me any info on Redhorn Point,Jerrys Point area ( near South Deep) and the nearby coastline. I've sailed past a few times but never ventured over. Is this area suitable for drying? It looks very peaceful on satellite images, is any of it private with landing restrictions?
 
Very muddy for drying out and is shallow a long way out. Don't think there re restrictions on landing except around the cottages at Goathorn.
 
colhel said:
Can anyone offer me any info on Redhorn Point,Jerrys Point area ( near South Deep) and the nearby coastline. I've sailed past a few times but never ventured over. Is this area suitable for drying? It looks very peaceful on satellite images, is any of it private with landing restrictions?
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We've taken a (bilge keel) Sadler 29 up to Redhorn Lake. Just follow the perches, on a spring tide preferably. Just before you reach the point there is/was a deeper pool where we remained afloat at low water. There used to be a boat permanently moored there but I think that's gone now. No restriction on landing there, it's all NT land. Enjoy!
 
colhel said:
Can anyone offer me any info on Redhorn Point,Jerrys Point area ( near South Deep) and the nearby coastline. I've sailed past a few times but never ventured over. Is this area suitable for drying? It looks very peaceful on satellite images, is any of it private with landing restrictions?
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We've taken a (bilge keel) Sadler 29 up to Redhorn Lake. Just follow the perches, on a spring tide preferably. Just before you reach the point there is/was a deeper pool where we remained afloat at low water. There used to be a boat permanently moored there but I think that's gone now. No restriction on landing there, it's all NT land. Enjoy!
 
I think being near South Deep it should be a nice soft muddy landing - check the chart for nature of seabed -but not much point if you were planning on working on the boat undersides - better to stay at anchor in the lovely South Deep and use the inflatable tender, assuming you have one.
 
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Many many moons past when we had bilge keelers,Redhorn used to be our Friday night 'go to' to get off our mooring and away from the truckline ferry wash. There used to be a home made houseboat on a steel lifeboat hull, beached right on the point, then the dweller built himself a proper boat from old floorboards and kept that there too. there use to be a few moorings laid there too, some for boats normally on buoys in Studland that ran for cover in severe easterlies. IIRC the point itself is mudy with shingle too. Some of the best Poole cockles were found in the nearby mud banks, my feet have only recently got rid of the black stains from that mud, 40 years or so later. UNless it has changed, beware the moorings which were neever serviced, one friend's boat broke free one night when the riser chain snapped on one such. I always preferred to trust my own gear and anchor, the holding was good. There used to be a short cut from the point to the Haven entrance if you knew where to find the way ( this was when bearings and transits were in favour, pre Decca and GPS and smartphones. MY kids used to walk up to the Sandbanks ferry-Swanage road and hunt for coins dropped by the Shell Bay beachgoers that parked up along there ( benefits of the new metal coins versus paper pound notes, they fell out of pockets and stayed put rather than blew away.
 
Many years ago I spent the night anchored in Redhorn Lake (in a catamaran), we didn't dry out. I went ashore at Redhorn Quay for a wander around the heath/dunes. Very peaceful.
If we wanted to dry out on fairly firm ground for the kids to get ashore we normally chose somewhere just north of the channel in Blood Alley.
Just got back from a brilliant week in and around Poole Harbour/Studland, decent weather makes it all worthwhile again.
 
Thanks all, some good info and nice experiences shared.
my only reason for asking about drying out is we like to step off the boat and have a walk and swim. Our favourite place for this is Blood Alley.
Anyone have any idea as to why it's referred to as Redhorn Quay on the chart?
 
Anchored in South Deep by the pier at Goat horn on Sat,Signs behind the beach ' Keep out Private' . Anyone know if this is for the beach or just the land Behind?
 
Robin,

your mention of the black mud brought back memories.

I was there on my boat years ago with my chum, who'd just bought an Anderson 22 and was along on a sort of training holiday.

Steve is a mad keen swimmer, so when he put on his trunks preparing for a perfect dive at South Deep I just quietly got my camera ready - sure enough he emerged looking like the creature from the black lagoon, saying lots of naughty words - lesson 1, look at the depthsounder, 3'.

I'll try to find the pics.
 
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olam said:
Anchored in South Deep by the pier at Goat horn on Sat,Signs behind the beach ' Keep out Private' . Anyone know if this is for the beach or just the land Behind?
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See post#2. Goathorn is indeed private. The quay used to be a terminus for the railway taking clay for shipment to the mainland. The cottage was part of the clay working estate and is private. Further west, which is what colhel was asking about is NT property, but not a good place to land except at highish water because of the mud.
 
Tranona said:
See post#2. Goathorn is indeed private. The quay used to be a terminus for the railway taking clay for shipment to the mainland. The cottage was part of the clay working estate and is private. Further west, which is what colhel was asking about is NT property, but not a good place to land except at highish water because of the mud.
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IIRC it is owned by the National Trust now, gifted from Bankes Estates(?), some of their NT 'wardens were quite snotty towards people taking dogs ashore but I think they haveno rights for the land between HW and LW marks. Biggest problem thereabouts is anchoring with wind against the strong tide flow .
 
From the Redhorn anchorage I usually dingy to the shingle spit at Jerry's Point. The short walk comes out on the road right by the bus stops, and opposite the path down to Studland Beach (in the middle of the nudist section).
 
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