onesea
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Doh b**ger that's the Beaulieu Boat Jumble weekend :/ .
Scuttlebutt Solent to Poole Cruise - Spring 2013
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Seajet
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Any more takers out there ?
To repeat, the plan weather allowing is for boats from Chichester to leave there on Thursday 25th April for East Cowes Marina, on to meet the main fleet at Berthon Marina at Lymington on the Friday, and to Poole Town Quay Marina on Saturday 27th.
Boats to return as they desire and the weather permits, I and several others plan to stay on a few days to visit Wareham and South Deep.
Andy
To repeat, the plan weather allowing is for boats from Chichester to leave there on Thursday 25th April for East Cowes Marina, on to meet the main fleet at Berthon Marina at Lymington on the Friday, and to Poole Town Quay Marina on Saturday 27th.
Boats to return as they desire and the weather permits, I and several others plan to stay on a few days to visit Wareham and South Deep.
Andy
chubby
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Do we know how many boats are going and are spaces booked in the marinas for a possibly large number of boats?
I may well be singlehanding on Dabchick but will have my dinghy as my mooring doesnt link to the shore.
Dabchick can be a b*****ger in marinas so the linear visitors pontoon in the Medina and the fore and aft bouys of Lymington town quay and right next to Berthons have some attraction: if I am bigger than some of the boats anyone is welcome to raft to Dabchick.
I have the monday and tues of the next week off to let me have a bit of time in Poole before heading back, but my draft (1.4M ) may not get to Wareham but up for South Deep, Pottery pier or Arne depending on wind etc.
I may well be singlehanding on Dabchick but will have my dinghy as my mooring doesnt link to the shore.
Dabchick can be a b*****ger in marinas so the linear visitors pontoon in the Medina and the fore and aft bouys of Lymington town quay and right next to Berthons have some attraction: if I am bigger than some of the boats anyone is welcome to raft to Dabchick.
I have the monday and tues of the next week off to let me have a bit of time in Poole before heading back, but my draft (1.4M ) may not get to Wareham but up for South Deep, Pottery pier or Arne depending on wind etc.
Seajet
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Hi Chubby,
26 boats at my last count but I'm reliably informed nothing like as many as that will be along on the day - or we may cause a few heart attacks !
If you're coming to Cowes on the Thursday I'll let them know nearer the time, the plan is East Cowes Marina though there's nothing to stop you going in the Medina and using your dinghy I suppose.
If you give us a chance to get there first we'll try to have someone waiting on the pontoon to take lines, at all places - I see Dabchick is a Barbary, I forget is she 33 or 35' ?
The stopover places are broadly aware of us but we can't tell them anything too useful at this stage, they have said ' OK, let us know nearer the time '.
Andy
26 boats at my last count but I'm reliably informed nothing like as many as that will be along on the day - or we may cause a few heart attacks !
If you're coming to Cowes on the Thursday I'll let them know nearer the time, the plan is East Cowes Marina though there's nothing to stop you going in the Medina and using your dinghy I suppose.
If you give us a chance to get there first we'll try to have someone waiting on the pontoon to take lines, at all places - I see Dabchick is a Barbary, I forget is she 33 or 35' ?
The stopover places are broadly aware of us but we can't tell them anything too useful at this stage, they have said ' OK, let us know nearer the time '.
Andy
chubby
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Hi Andy, the sight of a befendered Dabchick ( all 32ft 6) approaching a marina has be known to produce fear and trembling in the most stoical seafarer, I could always arrange a pilot and tugs, no forget that.....big c**ck up when the marina dorey in SPP acted as a tug and pushed on the stern instead of pulling...never happens when they berth the big grey ships in pompey!, cheers John
Zagato
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Glad your coming along Chubby, it will give me something sturdy to crash into Stopping isn't one of my best manoeuvres but getting away I'm getting good at, just gun the engine and OK it may scrape down the side of some boat for a while and bounce off the bow of another until I'm pointing in the direction but it gets me there in the end and no real harm done, lets face it life is too short to worry about a few scratches .
Stopping isn't one of my best manoeuvres but getting away I'm getting good at, just gun the engine and OK it may scrape down the side of some boat for a while and bounce off the bow of another until I'm pointing in the direction but it gets me there in the end and no real harm done, lets face it life is too short to worry about a few scratches .
Ru88ell
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The issue could be around Lymington. At least with Yarmouth we could pay a small sum and have guaranteed spaces; I also confirmed paid numbers and boat lengths. Am I right in thinking that Berthon is going to be first come first served? If so, should we be reconsidering?
If spaces are at a premium because of numbers we may have to take deposits to keep people focused.
If spaces are at a premium because of numbers we may have to take deposits to keep people focused.
chubby
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Glad your coming along Chubby, it will give me something sturdy to crash into Stopping isn't one of my best manoeuvres but getting away I'm getting good at, just gun the engine and OK it may scrape down the side of some boat for a while and bounce off the bow of another until I'm pointing in the direction but it gets me there in the end and no real harm done, lets face it life is too short to worry about a few scratches
thats what bowsprits are for: to fend off other boats and save yours being scratched
thats what bowsprits are for: to fend off other boats and save yours being scratched
Zagato
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Sorry Ru88el back on topic!
Seajet
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chubby
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There is always the bouys at lymington to overflow onto if the visitors berths at berthon are swamped by a huge turnout of scuttlebuters
RobinBirch
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Might be worth having at chat with the Harbour Master, Lymington re the use of the Dan Bran pontoon should it be available. We've used the facility for Hillyard meets.
prv
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There is, but many of the boats are too small to carry a useful dinghy. Hell, Dave Lusty's boat practically *is* a dinghy
Not a problem affecting me now we have the bigger boat, but I know on KS I only put the dinghy aboard when I had specific plans to use it - even deflated and rolled up, it dominated the cabin top and foredeck and made the cabin very gloomy. I can't imagine trying to stow one on Russell's Cape Cutter.
(Now he'll prove me wrong with an elegant and capacious stowage solution, I bet
)Pete
Seajet
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Robin,
thanks; Berthon is Plan A, they are expecting us; but the good thing about Lymington ( especially compared to Yarmouth ) is that there are lots of options, even if as a worst case we get a little dispersed then meet up by foot / dinghy.
thanks; Berthon is Plan A, they are expecting us; but the good thing about Lymington ( especially compared to Yarmouth ) is that there are lots of options, even if as a worst case we get a little dispersed then meet up by foot / dinghy.
Giblets
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There is, but many of the boats are too small to carry a useful dinghy. Hell, Dave Lusty's boat practically *is* a dinghy
In that case mine most definitely *is* a dinghy (with a lid)!
prv
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In that case mine most definitely *is* a dinghy (with a lid)!
I'm a bit hazy as to who's who - was it you (and friend) moored alongside Dave in Yarmouth last year?
Pete
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prv
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Bugger, we were noticed then!
Clearly I didn't notice very much, though - in my mind, yours and Dave's boats were sister-ships, but reading profiles I see yours is a Leisure 17 and Dave's is a Vivacity 20. How I managed to not see the 3' difference I have no idea. I thought they were both about the size of a Wayfarer
Pete
lustyd
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Clearly I didn't notice very much, though - in my mind, yours and Dave's boats were sister-ships, but reading profiles I see yours is a Leisure 17 and Dave's is a Vivacity 20. How I managed to not see the 3' difference I have no idea. I thought they were both about the size of a Wayfarer
Pete
These big boat owners, no respect for us little guys...
I don't think the 3' is all that obvious to be fair although mine was certainly bigger on the inside. For some reason, despite being there for what seemed like weeks I don't have a picture of us in Yarmouth to look back at.