South Coast destinations?

[dk]

Andy
Good to hear such positive vibes about sailing!
Key haven is quiet and beautiful. Nice pub and friendly sailing club.
Do go up to Lymington. It's busy and crowded in the summer, but a pleasant town with good restaurants and pubs. Nice contrast to Keyhaven.
Another peaceful anchorage if it's not too crowded is Newtown Creek on IOW. Not much going on, but good for chilling. You can take a dinghy up the river too, if you,re desperate for a pint. Wouldn't,t really advise taking your boat up, although I don,t know what you have.
Hamble is a must. It's very busy but is beautiful in some places and the village is quite pleasant. Pubs pretty good too. Great walk along the east bank if you fancy stretching your legs! The tides can be fairly fierce at springs, though, so time your entry right unless you,ve a powerful engine.
Have fun and hope the weather goes your way.
Duncan

 

[AB1707]

+1 do try and go to Newtown Creek for the night, you can either anchor or go on a visitors buoy. Especially during the week it'll be quieter and waking their in the morning is lively when it's not too busy- my favourite place in the Solent

 

[AB1707]

Lovely not lively

 

[Heckler]

As you know it has been a formidable month, gales, hurricanes (sorry, not a named hurricane, just a "mild" 984mb depression - Category 1 hurricane by any book), et al.

As a result I've only gotten from London to Littlehampton in three weeks and have only a week left before having to go back to work.

I'd like to make Southsea, Chichester or somewhere else, preferably with a pub, green grocer, fishmonger, and butcher within walking distance.

Premier do good work, but sort of a one-size-fits-all. We enjoyed Eastbourne, but there is nothing there except the marina and an ASDA and some other mall type shops without a thirty minute bus ride....

Emsworth is lovely, except they don't have room for me. Ditto for Arundel/Ford Ship and Anchor.

Bosham was lovely too, except no shops and no marina.

Littlehampton is pleasant and will do, but the the river current is fierce, as is the tide and the flotsam and jetsam. I can find a berth at the marina, but it is still on the outside by the river, so am concerned about moorings, flotsam, jetsam, etc.

I've discovered the MCA river classification site, wonderful.

http://www.dft.gov.uk/mca/mcga-mnotice.htm?textobjid=2501FF6153039897

As we have gone up the Thames almost to Oxford I know that I can handle the Arun Class B river, except nobody lives there with a dock...

Chichester and Northney marinas are HUGE, so I fear that I would only be a number, and as I can't stay here that wouldn't do without special concern on the part of staff. Southsea might be better, but it depends.

Time is short, so even if I could carry on to the Solent then the prices are horrible, so better to go to Poole or beyond, but there isn't time for that.

So I must stop short: either Langstone Harbour (somewhere) or Arun.

So in short, what would YOU do?

Kind regards, Andy

South Coast? you are welcome to it, overpriced piece of kaka!
Went from Holyhead via Fishguard to the Scillies, Fishguard cost me nowt, some of the nights in the Scillies I picked up a buoy, £20 a night. Ran for Falmouth when some wind came in, £38 a night plus 70 litres of diesel for over a hundred quid! Premier welcome!
Went up the river to the pontoon just below Truro, peace perfect peace with some nice Brits and Europeans to chat to, £12 a night, that was better!
By the way, Falmouth Premier, came in, swmbo with the lines and getting ready to jump ashore, a small gin palace complete with his bleach blonde ignored us completely and we noticed that when we walked the pontoons, peeps looked at their shoes and to the left as they approached, strange, perhaps they didnt under stand MORNING!
Stu

 

[Grumpybear]

South Coast? you are welcome to it, overpriced piece of kaka!
Went from Holyhead via Fishguard to the Scillies, Fishguard cost me nowt, some of the nights in the Scillies I picked up a buoy, £20 a night. Ran for Falmouth when some wind came in, £38 a night plus 70 litres of diesel for over a hundred quid! Premier welcome!
Went up the river to the pontoon just below Truro, peace perfect peace with some nice Brits and Europeans to chat to, £12 a night, that was better!
By the way, Falmouth Premier, came in, swmbo with the lines and getting ready to jump ashore, a small gin palace complete with his bleach blonde ignored us completely and we noticed that when we walked the pontoons, peeps looked at their shoes and to the left as they approached, strange, perhaps they didnt under stand MORNING!
Stu

Sounds as if those people were DFLs. Lack of eye contact seems to be a London defence mechanism.

 

[alavarre]

Sounds as if those people were DFLs. Lack of eye contact seems to be a London defence mechanism.

I remember the first time I was in London, and experienced the same walking down Oxford Street. Kept bumping into people. Years later I figured out that in the UK you have to walk on the LEFT, not the RIGHT to avoid bumping into people... It works well, if not perfectly...

So anyhow, thanks again, now digging down deeper into the details: BEMBRIDGE.

http://www.bembridgeharbour.co.uk/the-harbour/harbour-map
http://www.bembridgeharbour.co.uk/the-harbour/berthing

The main town appears from charts to be in the lower left corner of the picture (northeast corner of the harbour chart) but the Bembridge Marina is in the upper right corner of the picture (southwest corner of the harbour). The former appears to be by the town, but the latter appears to be accompanied by a nearby assembly of habitation.

I don't see any indication of a "town dock" but do see Selwyn Marina.

The site says:

"Visitors are directed to the Duver Marina." but that is in the middle of the the harbour, miles away from the first two.

I just want to walk a few blocks to what's going on, including groceries and a pub without paying for a taxi. So should I stay at the former, labeled variously as the town dock, or the second, or accept the "visitors" option?

Thanks again, Andy

 

[Seajet]

Andy,

as far as I know the real ( older ) marina is now residents only, so you do have to use what's basically a long pontoon at the Duver side.

It is indeed a long - but very interesting - walk to the very friendly BHSC and pub right around the harbour, or the other way uphill into the village.

When the tide is in there's a water taxi short cut to the pub, but check tide times for getting back !

I suppose there must be road taxi's available, the Duver harbour staff are friendly and should have phone numbers.

 

[Twister_Ken]

Itchenor. No marina but 6 big HM visitors' buoys, each rafting up to 6 boats. Dinghy ashore or water taxi (some of the time.) Decent pub and the ISC is welcoming. If you want a marina there's Chichester Marina, but maybe that's your home base?

 

[alavarre]

Hello again. Thanks for the further insight. AFAICT, the Duver is indeed remote from the High Street, of either St. Helen's or Bembridge itself.

Google maps have a quite wonderful "street view" feature, so you can literally walk down the High Street.

So thanks again. Here is the result of the research:

Need to come to some decisions soon. It is already almost the middle of August!

Some more links:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bembridge

Downtown Bembridge:
50.690654°N 1.088744°W

The only berthing is at the visitors' marina. miles away from downtown:
http://tinyurl.com/lfbjrud

http://tinyurl.com/mus2wz4

The "Farm Shop" seems to be the local grocery, with a shop downtown and an occasional opening at the pier.

So really, the visitors berth isn't Bembridge at all, rather St. Helens and rather remote from even that.

So I think we may just give that a miss.

OK. On to Key Haven!



Thanks also to Twister_Ken for the post below on Ichenor... May just go home to CHI and take the bike...


Cheers, Andy