Solent - places to practice anchoring

[wonkywinch]

Bouldnor bay is deffo OK to anchor, as is Thorness, and outside Newtown. Or at least everyone still does. There have been mutterings about seagreass, but the killjoys have not yet pissed on our parade.

Not all of Thorness. C Map (B&G) shows a no anchor zone from middle of the bay all the way up to Gurnard. Navionics show two cables coming into the bay from Beaulieu, the western most one almost level with the C Map no anchor zone. I don't have Admiralty charts to check whether it's on there too.

 

[st599]

Not all of Thorness. C Map (B&G) shows a no anchor zone from middle of the bay all the way up to Gurnard. Navionics show two cables coming into the bay from Beaulieu, the western most one almost level with the C Map no anchor zone. I don't have Admiralty charts to check whether it's on there too.

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The Isle of Wight's main and reserve 132kV cables come ashore in Thorness Bay

 

[wonkywinch]

The Isle of Wight's main and reserve 132kV cables come ashore in Thorness Bay

 

[mikegunn]

The only up to date charts I have access to right now are Orca and there's no 'no anchor' zone on that and the area outside Newtown Creek is marked with an Anchor just as it always was. Google is silent. I can't find a NTM.

I could easily be wrong but I think the no anchor Zone might just be a weird feature of Navionics Charts with no legal basis.

Someone asked a few years back with no takers:

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Thread 'No anchoring from Yarmouth to Cowes, nature reserve'

26 Aug 2019

Sorry if this has been posted before, I couldn’t find anything on search.

I updated charts on Navionics App and noticed the south coast of isle of white from Yarmouth to Cowes has been marked a nature reserve and a restricted area.

Newtown is still marked as an anchorage, although it also says restricted so does anyone know if we’re banned from there too?

Looks like Alum bay to Yarmouth is still ok, going to get very busy down there.

I wonder if they’ll move Salt Mead buoy, it’s sitting well inside the restricted area?

• Anders_P42
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Thanks for that info Mark-1.
It would seem that one solution is to refer to the chart that gives the answers one wants. Bit like weather forecasts.
Mike

 

[Chiara’s slave]

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I made the possibly foolish assumption that nobody would chuck the hook out on top of a marked cable. There’s plenty of room that wouldn’t be risking that.

 

[HamiltonSpreader]

I suggest you take a seasick tablet if you are going to be that ill after a coffee

Very good

 

[HamiltonSpreader]

Just east of Hurst Castle tucked in towards Keyhaven. Protected from the prevailing SW winds, not to much tide and generally fairly calm.

Yes was thinking about there, thanks

 

[ashtead]

If you try out your anchoring at East Head in chi harbour it’s a lovely spot but the actual area if you have any keel worth speaking of is quite narrow. Advantages are the beach is close by but beware you might have surprise visitor at 2am who drifts down to say hello. I’m told that meant new friendships are also made in early hours at Newtown creek. Remember if anchoring in these areas to leave fenders down on both sides to cushion arrival of your surprise guests4 (ps they might arrive in 2 smal boats already buddy up so you end up with a triple raft on your trusty Rocna)

 

[Chiara’s slave]

If you try out your anchoring at East Head in chi harbour it’s a lovely spot but the actual area if you have any keel worth speaking of is quite narrow. Advantages are the beach is close by but beware you might have surprise visitor at 2am who drifts down to say hello. I’m told that meant new friendships are also made in early hours at Newtown creek. Remember if anchoring in these areas to leave fenders down on both sides to cushion arrival of your surprise guests4 (ps they might arrive in 2 smal boats already buddy up so you end up with a triple raft on your trusty Rocna)

Perhaps it’s a good thing that the guy in the pink boat is firmly aground.

 

[ashtead]

Yes amazed he doesn’t have any mates to join him in such a peaceful spot. I feel some should ask him for an interview or suchlike info on his cause.

 

[billskip]

I dropped my anchor in my dinghy once....

 

[Chiara’s slave]

Yes amazed he doesn’t have any mates to join him in such a peaceful spot. I feel some should ask him for an interview or suchlike info on his cause.

He is quite civil, if spoken to. But I did not raise the topic of middle east politics. Kept strictly to forum rules.