river orwell to isle of wight

[johnalison]

We always do:
Day 1 into Dover through Foulgers
Day 2 into Brighton - counter-intuitively it's further than Day 1 by about 10 miles
Day 3 into chosen Solent port - you can reach the IoW instead
Long days - but it breaks the back of the westing and from there you can make Cherbourg in a day too.

We used to do Brighton-Cherbourg for preference. It is just about 90 miles but you can use the tide to shorten this. We generally did it in not much more than 15hrs in the Sadler 29.