bilbobaggins
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As I hadn't been there for about 35 years..... /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif
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As I hadn't been there for about 35 years..... /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif
fireball
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Hmm - the Starboard hand mark seems a little high out of the water ... don't want to get too close to that one!!
arfa
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Beaucette Marina in Guernsey ?
jhr
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Don't think Beaucette's been there 35 years, has it? My guess would be somewhere in North Brittany - Ploumanac'h, p'raps?
beancounter
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Rather a lot of guano on some of those rocks...
jimbaerselman
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Ploumenac'h is pink granite. This looks more like some metamorphic rocks with some granite in the foreground; which puts me in S Ireland. Heaven knows where though. I seem to remember those white beacons - mooring posts? - and suspect we're looking at an old ore shipping spot.
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jstr
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YEP it's DEFINITELY the entrance to Beaucette marina NE Guernsey - I have a picture just like that!
jimbaerselman
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Ah! Shipping out the granite from the old quarry?
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jstr
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Another view from inside the marina
bilbobaggins
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Re: Another view from inside the marina
'Beaucette Marina' it certainly is, and a very spic-n-span place it was earlier this week. Those with up close and personal experience with sills which causes 'em to do the 'Tidal Height Graph' run with focus will notice that the Beaucette gauge just visible from seaward is not accurate. That leads, late at night and with no staff around to answer the 'phone, to hanging about outside waiting for the most impatient visitor to try first......
According to the young'n'lovely staff, it is about 0.8m under-reading for the benefit of our 'cheese-eating surrender-monkey' friends, who have a habit of running it too tight and blocking the port ( another antisocial habit from those parts )
Oh, and the St Peter Port/Victoria Marina sill tidal gauge is OVER-reading by about 0.2m. When in those parts, do have a look at the photo-collection of fine boats lying on their sides, under the glass counter top at Boatworks, due to all the water being elsewhere.....
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'Beaucette Marina' it certainly is, and a very spic-n-span place it was earlier this week. Those with up close and personal experience with sills which causes 'em to do the 'Tidal Height Graph' run with focus will notice that the Beaucette gauge just visible from seaward is not accurate. That leads, late at night and with no staff around to answer the 'phone, to hanging about outside waiting for the most impatient visitor to try first......
According to the young'n'lovely staff, it is about 0.8m under-reading for the benefit of our 'cheese-eating surrender-monkey' friends, who have a habit of running it too tight and blocking the port ( another antisocial habit from those parts )
Oh, and the St Peter Port/Victoria Marina sill tidal gauge is OVER-reading by about 0.2m. When in those parts, do have a look at the photo-collection of fine boats lying on their sides, under the glass counter top at Boatworks, due to all the water being elsewhere.....
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starboard
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Re: Another view from inside the marina
I remember beucette when it was a quarry....I watched the Army boys blow the rock out to create the entrance many many many years ago....I guess round about 1964 but could be a year or so out..prior to that we used to launch the fishing boats off the pebble beach between the new entrance and Fort Doyle.For a good few years after that we kept the boats in the marina before any pontoons were even in!!! Not been back for a good few years so nice to see these pictures of the present!!
Paul.
I remember beucette when it was a quarry....I watched the Army boys blow the rock out to create the entrance many many many years ago....I guess round about 1964 but could be a year or so out..prior to that we used to launch the fishing boats off the pebble beach between the new entrance and Fort Doyle.For a good few years after that we kept the boats in the marina before any pontoons were even in!!! Not been back for a good few years so nice to see these pictures of the present!!
Paul.