Sailing in Britain

[johnalison]

Got it in one, except that you missed out the bonus, if you hunt around, you can also pay for the privilege of using your anchor.

I intended 'havens' to cover non-marina options, such as anchorages or mooring to rocks.

I did, though, omit good food. One of the attractions of Normandy is their food and drink, which is often of a rustic nature that appeals to me. Similarly, I always enjoyed the variety of fish in the Baltic, including hornfish, herring, and one of my favourites, zander.

I may have been unlucky, but the weather in our West Country and the Channel generally was often disappointing, my chief criterion being the number of times or days that going to sea was out of the question. In this respect, summer in the southern Baltic was much more satisfactory, and we were never held up for more than one or two days.

 

[boomerangben]

Variety is the spice of life. The weather here has variety in spades (well apart from the high temperatures and icebergs, which is fine be me)

 

[capnsensible]

I think most people only find out how their sailing is so much improved by going somewhere else..........

 

[Chiara’s slave]

I think most people only find out how their sailing is so much improved by going somewhere else..........

Most places I’ve sailed are fairly straightforwards after UK and northern France. And TBH it does’t make much difference where you are in UK except that the north is a bit colder. All have weather, tides and multiple off-lying dangers of one sort or another

 

[capnsensible]

I'm kinda done with cold, snow, cold, rain, cold, fog and cold, ta. 🏝

 

[Chiara’s slave]

I'm kinda done with cold, snow, cold, rain, cold, fog and cold, ta. 🏝

We might get that feeling from time to time, but we’d lose the index linking on our pensions, the feeling goes away quickly when we think about that.

 

[capnsensible]

I like being able to feel my toes and fingers during a sail......

 

[Chiara’s slave]

I like being able to feel my toes and fingers during a sail......

You have a point, for sure, we do need a vitamin D top up over the winter, but the sun is promised this week, and F3 easterlies. It’s Dragonfly weather, and our new jib will be here for Easter.

 

[geem]

July and August is OK.

We tend to go back to the UK then. We treat the UK summer as our winter

 

[coveman]

Got it in one, except that you missed out the bonus, if you hunt around, you can also pay for the privilege of using your anchor.

Which anchor?

 

[Chiara’s slave]

Which anchor?

Do some harbours charge you different amounts depending on which anchor ypu use? Or double, if you use 2