Visit to Windermere Again!!

[hlb]

Big difference this time was, the car park in the marina was full. The club house was also full and getting knives and forks for our meal in front of us, was a big ordeal. We looked out on boats, most of them quite capable of reaching the CI's France or Ireland. But none moved on the lake. MF spent her first five years or so on Windermere. But escaped to the sea, some time later. There was a sister of MF languishing in the dock. Poor thing had probably been there all her life. Bit sad really for a very capable boat.

 

[BrendanS]

I feel very sad for all the people boating on Windermere who have will have to live to new constraints, but Windermere isn't really a boating lake. It's far too small for the size of boats on it. Sorry peeps, just my opinion.

 

[hlb]

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Windermere is a big lake. The thing that put me off it many years ago. Was all the oficialdom, cant park here. dont park on this pontoon. etc.£200000 if you do this. £2 if that.

I found a refreshing change on the sea. Go anywhere do as you may. I fear that they are encroaching on that now!!

 

[BrendanS]

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It's big enough for big boats to have an easy cruise. It's not big enough to enjoy cruising

 

[itsonlymoney]

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It's all down to the type of boating you wish to be involved in and to some degree your location.
I travel 65ml and 1hr to get to my boat, my daughter and I went for the day on saturday in order to do a bit of spring cleaning and also to spend some "quality time" together. I could not do that if I were berthed anywere else as the travelling time would be to restrictive. It is very fortunate for those people lucky enough to be a couple of hours from the south coast, West coast of Scotland or indeed the Med, but then again I get to drop my anchor in arguably the most beautiful area of Britain so how lucky am I. On a sunny day rafted up with friends enjoying a glass of wine, your children swimming in safe clean water or rowing about in the tender having great fun you really could be anywere in the world.
I think what I am trying to say is that we all have different requirements due to family and or work commitments and sometimes have to compromise but above all we enjoy a common pursuit and that is boats.
Ian

 

[Dave_Snelson]

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Yep, I agree (even though I am coastal based). I used to use my speedboats on Windermere for waterskiing and messing about. My only gripe being parking and launching during busy holidays - but thats no different in Porthmadog in August!!

The thing I found that Windermere offered (other than great scenery) was access to the water in a wider variety of weather conditions and good local facilities. For me last year, the coast was just rubbish (well, OK, not quite rubbish) due to the lousy summer we had - and principally the high winds.

It was a long time ago now, but my last foray on Windermere was for waterskiing behind my Fletcher with Merc 50...ya know the old silver-band version, 750cc 4-Cylinder. There was I being towed along in the sunshine by SWMBO, and the engine was just buzzing - ya know...you get days when the thing just sounds right. bzzzzzzzzzzzzBANG! Damn thing blew itself to bits - literally. Having swam to the boat, I unclipped the cowl and out fell a number of fractured aluminium alloy pieces. I was left with a Mercury jig-saw puzzle /forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif

It was all lake Windermere's fault - nasty clean water. Never been there since. Told you it was a rubbish place /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif