Stuck at Ilfracombe

[oldmanofthehills]

I’m in the part just after the lock near reception on H15. When I arrived and finally got electric set up there was already some credit loaded on to it, can’t add my credit until that one’s used up and I was told to use it and it’s lasting forever, charged 2 drill batteries, electric shaver and 2 leisure batteries and it’s still going!



I’m going to have to anchor quite far out by the look of it, got a dinghy onboard so I’ll go and have an explore.

The Swansea scuba and yacht club is great. The under cover market fooodhall in town is a gem for fresh fish etc and consoled us when we were stuck there to enable us to have access to banks, legal advice and such like

 

[Praxinoscope]

Lower Fishguard is a beautiful little harbour, of course it dries like almost all of them around here, as seastoke pointed out be careful of the depth at anchor, I mis-calculated it once a few years ago and ended up well and truly heeled over at 03:00hr.
Fishguard was the location for the films 'Moby Dick' and 'Under Milkwood'.
On the sail round from the Haven to Fishguard, if you judge the tides correctly it's fairly straightforward to pass through both Jack Sound and Ramsey sound on the same tide, (plenty of detailed info on passing through these in various pilot guides) and it does reduce the journey time considerably.
Can be a bit 'choppy' off St David's Head.
Good Sailing.

 

[john_morris_uk]

Lower Fishguard is a beautiful little harbour, of course it dries like almost all of them around here, as seastoke pointed out be careful of the depth at anchor, I mis-calculated it once a few years ago and ended up well and truly heeled over at 03:00hr.
Fishguard was the location for the films 'Moby Dick' and 'Under Milkwood'.
On the sail round from the Haven to Fishguard, if you judge the tides correctly it's fairly straightforward to pass through both Jack Sound and Ramsey sound on the same tide, (plenty of detailed info on passing through these in various pilot guides) and it does reduce the journey time considerably.
Can be a bit 'choppy' off St David's Head.
Good Sailing.

Exactly so. Watch for the Puffins too.

 

[Dellquay13]

Exactly so. Watch for the Puffins too.

The Puffins have sadly long left for their winter feeding grounds this late in the year.
Outside Lower Fishguard harbour is fine for depth in the anchorage under the old battery, but you do need a bilge keel to use the visitors buoys just outside the harbour if you are on bigger tides than the neapest of neaps
The harbour moorings are fully drying of course

 

[Dellquay13]

Fishguard was the location for the film 'Under Milkwood'

Renamed Llareggub in a manner a bit daring for its day

 

[Praxinoscope]

Renamed Llareggub in a manner a bit daring for its day

You can buy Llareggub mugs I think in the National Library of Wales shop

 

[oldmanofthehills]

Renamed Llareggub in a manner a bit daring for its day

Though Llaregub was reputedly Laugharne in Carmarthen Bay where he stayed in the boat house. Dried out nearby and picked cockles and it seemed a nice sleepy town. In terms of the storyline, Fishguard actually fits better - but it was a poem not a travelog

 

[Praxinoscope]

New Quay also claims to be Llareggub, but I think a lot of Thomas researchers feel that it's a mixture of various places and characters that Dylan knew.
Certainly Fishguard served well as a location for Llareggub in Andrew Sinclars film, which despite many critics I think would have pleased Dylan if he had lived to see it.

 

[Dellquay13]

New Quay also claims to be Llareggub, but I think a lot of Thomas researchers feel that it's a mixture of various places and characters that Dylan knew.
Certainly Fishguard served well as a location for Llareggub in Andrew Sinclars film, which despite many critics I think would have pleased Dylan if he had lived to see it.

Last year Fishguard town was definitely Llareggub, there was bugger all not boarded up, and what was open was inaccessible due to the road remodelling. Glad to report an improvement this year

 

[john_morris_uk]

The Puffins have sadly long left for their winter feeding grounds this late in the year.
Outside Lower Fishguard harbour is fine for depth in the anchorage under the old battery, but you do need a bilge keel to use the visitors buoys just outside the harbour if you are on bigger tides than the neapest of neaps
The harbour moorings are fully drying of course

Good point on the Puffins.

We’ve anchored in about this spot in the past.

 

[Bristolfashion]

I trickled charged 3 batteries all last winter, run lights, use a power wash from time to time, boil an electric kettle a few times each visit and have used about £10 in 15 months.

I seen Bristolfashions boat today with a bright red tender but no sign of him

I get why you said the berth is narrow if your in phase 1, there’s more room up the far end by the tower.
Your close to Sainsburys and the Yacht club though!

We walked to the Mumbles - lovely day for a stroll!

 

[38mess]

Though Llaregub was reputedly Laugharne in Carmarthen Bay where he stayed in the boat house. Dried out nearby and picked cockles and it seemed a nice sleepy town. In terms of the storyline, Fishguard actually fits better - but it was a poem not a travelog

There must have been a dozen Dylan's as he seemed to have lived everywhere in west Wales. When I was a kid I spent a lot of time in Laugharne especially staying in a house called Sea View and only recently did I find out that Dylan and Catlin lived there for a while. I can remember the boat house was just a garage filled with junk when we played around the woods there. I visited Sea View when it was a hotel around 10 years ago and the owner told me it was haunted although we didn't see anything as kids. Good for business I guess.

 

[TwoHooter]

New Quay also claims to be Llareggub, but I think a lot of Thomas researchers feel that it's a mixture of various places and characters that Dylan knew.
Certainly Fishguard served well as a location for Llareggub in Andrew Sinclars film, which despite many critics I think would have pleased Dylan if he had lived to see it.

You've got me going now. I saw Under Milk Wood as a play, at the Ipswich Rep, over 60 years ago. I still remember the prodution as a minor masterpiece. It was performed on a circular stage, built on the ordinary stage, with a backscene across the diameter and changes of set each time it revolved through 180 degrees. The cast was brilliant, I wish I could remember who the narrator was, not quite Burton's voice but very good. '...down to the sloeblack, slow, black, crowblack, fishingboat-bobbing sea...', and 'Captain Cat, the retired, blind seacaptain, asleep in his bunk in the seashelled, ship-in-bottled, shipshape best cabin of Schooner House dreams of never such seas as any that swamped the decks of his S.S. Kidwelly bellying over the bedclothes and jellyfish slippery sucking him down salt deep into the Davy dark where the fish come biting out and nibble him down to his wishbone, and the long drowned nuzzle up to him.' I memorise poetry as a bulwark against old age but I never recite Dylan Thomas's masterpiece, you need to be very good to carry that off.

 

[Praxinoscope]

The Goodwick small craft moorings have advantages, but lack the'Olde Worlde' ambiance of Lower Fishguard.

 

[Praxinoscope]

To fully appreciate Under Milkwood one had to remember that Dylan described Llarregub as a place where 'Everyone was Mad'. Which is perhaps why I like Sinclairs film, thrre is a maesure of madness throughout right up to the final scene of all the characters dancing around together.
Talk about thread drift SaltyMoose started the thread on his intention to get to Aberystwyth, which as far as I know has no Dylan Thomas pretensions.

 

[Dellquay13]

Good point on the Puffins.

We’ve anchored in about this spot in the past.
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It’s a frequent anchorage choice, but a long row ashore to the pretty bit at Lower Fishguard, or up a long walk uphill from Goodwick to Fishguard town centre

 

[Dellquay13]

The Goodwick small craft moorings have advantages, but lack the'Olde Worlde' ambiance of Lower Fishguard.

Or the yacht club showers

 

[Praxinoscope]

Or the yacht club showers

Very true, many happy Saturday evenings in the club.
We had one member (sadly passed away) who could tell a really tall tale, one evening he had those in the bar who didn't know him, convinced that his mother used to run a business exporting by sea Welsh Cakes to Patagonia.

 

[Dellquay13]

Very true, many happy Saturday evenings in the club.
We had one member (sadly passed away) who could tell a really tall tale, one evening he had those in the bar who didn't know him, convinced that his mother used to run a business exporting by sea Welsh Cakes to Patagonia.

Anyone can see the holes in that story, they bake their own family recipe Welshcakes in Patagonia

 

[Praxinoscope]

Anyone can see the holes in that story, they bake their own family recipe Welshcakes in Patagonia

To borrow a Michael Caine quote 'Not a lot of people know that'