WBYC

[clarinettist]

As the next step in confidence/experience building we thought the short trip Cardiff to Weston Bay YC might be good. I have the blue book and WBYC pilotage notes off their website;
anything else we should know?

 

[damo]

Passports?

 

[seedog]

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[quimby]

Break down the voyage,...... with a picnic at anchor off Flatholm [image]

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[Csail]

Was that picture when i met you?

 

[graham]

Leave theRhumney River as early as you can and sail straight across,You can get onto the club pontoon on most tides an hour or two before/after highwater on Neap tides you need to be there at HW. On big spring tides the walkway covers leaving you cut off from the shore unless you take a dinghy.

The other option is to leave RRC after HW wait off Penarth or Flatholm as Snoopy suggested then go in on the next tide.No point entering the river earlier than two hours before HW.

At the other end of the Bay you can lie alongside the "dolphins" in Knightstone harbour easy with a bilge keeler.
Knightstone Dolphins

WBYC pontoon

river Axe

You need about 11 meters of tide to get into Knightstone.

 

[quimby]

Yup, Hows the engine? "Royce" is now owned by CDYC Sec , Then came Halcyon, now in the hands of CDYC Treasurer, I am now back with an Achilles Fin keel "Sarabande."

 

[Csail]

Engine is great, did a service (not that it needed it) but working just fine.