Taking your cruising ground ...... where have you not been but want to go to ?

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Many of have localised cruising area and time after time - weekends / trips etc are to regular places .. but I know for me in areas I've sailed - there have been harbours or bolt-holes that I've wanted to visit .. but for some reanon never did ...

Interested to hear from others about this ... try name the harbour and area so we can maybe google it and see ...

Mine ? In UK - was southern bolt-holes of Isle of Wight ..... and various along south coast from Solent.
 
Nice ones ....

Question was aimed to replies of locations within the usual cruising area made by each ..

I have thoughts of longer wider cruises - but reality means unlikely to ever achieve. One I had was to sail my UK boat to Latvia from Solent ... had crew set up as well ... reckoned a 3 month trip to emjoy as much as possible on the way ... but in the end - work interefered and boat was trucked over. I have considered my 38ft'r to sail Latvia to UK .... but ????
 
Locally, we never took our boat up to St Katt’s, though we did it once on a friend’s boat.

Further afield - in nearly fifty years I think we covered most of the stopping-places down the Channel and to the Southern Baltic and up to the Norwegian border, which doesn’t leave much, though I would like to have gone to Gotland. Not really bothered about the Stockholm area but perhaps the Gulf of Bothnia would have been interesting.
 
I'm Inverness based, and have been up to Orkney & Shetland a number of times, but only ever into the 'main' marinas, which aren't of a scale that our Southern brethren might be acquainted with. However, there are simply so many anchorages in these places yet to explore.
Torshavn is my target this year, with the same planning as I had for it last year, when I broke the motor coming into Scapa Floe, and was forced to return to Inverness. A days sail to Stromness, and then a 2 day sail to the Faeroe Isles.
As a place to go, Orkney takes a lot of beating (no pun), so would be a recommendation to all as it's a challenge getting there, and a worthy reward for the effort.
 
jamie N said:
I'm Inverness based, and have been up to Orkney & Shetland a number of times, but only ever into the 'main' marinas, which aren't of a scale that our Southern brethren might be acquainted with. However, there are simply so many anchorages in these places yet to explore.
Torshavn is my target this year, with the same planning as I had for it last year, when I broke the motor coming into Scapa Floe, and was forced to return to Inverness. A days sail to Stromness, and then a 2 day sail to the Faeroe Isles.
As a place to go, Orkney takes a lot of beating (no pun), so would be a recommendation to all as it's a challenge getting there, and a worthy reward for the effort.
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We've sailed to Orkney twice.
First time we only had ten days there and spent most of it storm bound in Stromness. Didn't make it out of Scapa Flow. Still worth the visit though.

Second trip was very good. Got to the northern part, and played around in the tides to visit several of the smaller islands. Westray was probably the favourite but they all had their charms.
 
Sea Change said:
We've sailed to Orkney twice.
First time we only had ten days there and spent most of it storm bound in Stromness. Didn't make it out of Scapa Flow. Still worth the visit though.

Second trip was very good. Got to the northern part, and played around in the tides to visit several of the smaller islands. Westray was probably the favourite but they all had their charms.
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On my way up to Scalloway in my wooden Folkboat, I anchored at Pierowall on Westray, but having expected there to be pontoons in the harbour, I felt slightly let down. The harbour master came on by and said nice things about my boat STAKKR, and apologised about the pontoons not being ready, telling me that the contractor was running on 'Island time', but that they'd be ready in a couple of weeks for when I'd be coming back down.
Sure enough, a fortnight later the pontoons were in and I'd a good berth for a couple of nights. The harbour master visited, and again apologised for the pontoons not having been ready for 'me', insisted on only charging for a single night by way of apology fro my previous visit, and gave me a fair sized (cooked) lobster, which was well accompanied by the Sancerre from my bilges cellar.
 
jamie N said:
On my way up to Scalloway in my wooden Folkboat, I anchored at Pierowall on Westray, but having expected there to be pontoons in the harbour, I felt slightly let down. The harbour master came on by and said nice things about my boat STAKKR, and apologised about the pontoons not being ready, telling me that the contractor was running on 'Island time', but that they'd be ready in a couple of weeks for when I'd be coming back down.
Sure enough, a fortnight later the pontoons were in and I'd a good berth for a couple of nights. The harbour master visited, and again apologised for the pontoons not having been ready for 'me', insisted on only charging for a single night by way of apology fro my previous visit, and gave me a fair sized (cooked) lobster, which was well accompanied by the Sancerre from my bilges cellar.
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We anchored off and dinghied in to the harbour. It looked a bit tight for us.

On the walk from there to the village, an old lady shouted to us out of her window. This was right in the middle of Covid and the first lockdown had only just ended. I was a bit worried that a small island community wouldn't welcome visitors. So at first I thought she was berating us. But no, she was just telling me to dump my rubbish bag in her bin because it was quite a long walk in to the village. Very nice people.
 
johnalison said:
Locally, we never took our boat up to St Katt’s, though we did it once on a friend’s boat.

Further afield - in nearly fifty years I think we covered most of the stopping-places down the Channel and to the Southern Baltic and up to the Norwegian border, which doesn’t leave much, though I would like to have gone to Gotland. Not really bothered about the Stockholm area but perhaps the Gulf of Bothnia would have been interesting.
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The Stockholm Archi is actually beautiful .. its only the immediate vicinity of Stockholm that loses its charm. but north or south of Stockholm .. it really is worth it.
 
My usual stonping ground is the East Coast Thames estuary area. I have not been down to the south coast for many years due to concerns over cost and the high number of boats. But I would love.to do the Dart again at some point. Scotland is on the list too. And Ireland.
 
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