JumbleDuck
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Perhaps to you, but it's clear from this thread that many of us find it useful. What alternative list of visitor moorings and pontoons would you suggest I use when out of internet coverage?
Welcome Anchorages
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Perhaps to you, but it's clear from this thread that many of us find it useful. What alternative list of visitor moorings and pontoons would you suggest I use when out of internet coverage?
JumbleDuck
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I've never failed to get the visitor mooring at Easdale since Welcome Anchorages stopped listing it.
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Yes to me it is JD, my opinion. I don’t feel I need to advise you on alternatives should the Internet not be available. I am quite sure you would cope if your copy was not on board.
ctva
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So you find it useful in a negative sense...:encouragement:
JumbleDuck
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Of course I would cope, but I'd cope if my entire bookshelf went overboard. It just wouldn't be a easy. You say that "It’s just a pointless publication the functionality of which has been superseded long ago by other media." and I am genuinely interested to know what other media - even online ones - give comprehensive and (reasonably) accurate lists of paid visitor facilities on the West Coast. What am I missing?
JumbleDuck
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Yes indeed. It's been very useful. Doesn't quite make up for that swine Bradfield luring people into my nice, quiet anchorages though. I wonder if he'd take money to add some rocks?
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There is nothing mysterious about searching online for ‘paid visitor facilities’ or even free ones, the list is a Google’ search return.
For example, if I type ‘free moorings at Ghia’ I get the Isle of Ghia site, which informs me they are not free, also a list of attractions and other useful information. There is even a useful contact number that I can call and ask a question.
Curiously, if I type into Google ‘Tiree Moorings’ it offers Gott Bay Moorings on the Isle of Tiree web site. Their Useful Informstion link is quite interesting.
Searching ‘Free Moorings in Scotland’ returns ‘the proxy server isn’t responding’ for the BMF on the water, your region, Scotland. Maybe they have given up. Thankfully, a Google on ‘Visitor Moorings In Scotland’ delivers many possibilities and even a pdf of the 2017 Welcome Anchorages publication on their own website! A savvy person can delete the relevant text string and get to their home page and view online, or download the pdf version.
I quite like ‘Scottish Anchorages’ but that doesn’t fit your criteria for accurate lists of paid facilities as one has to read the text to establish the facilities, after clicking on the point of interest.
My own choice is Imray’s CCC pilots and the small craft symbols on the chart or just turning up and seeing if that memory of HIDB Moorings is still valid. Which is good enough for me, supplemented by my phone.
JumbleDuck
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Of course. What I find useful about Welcome Anchorages is that it lets me see where the facilities are without having to Google every possibility in turn. In the places where Googling is possible, of course.
I still have an original HIDB brochure knocking around somewhere!
dunedin
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Remember that the people who will find Welcome Anchorages most useful are new visitors to Scottish and Irish waters, whether chartering or visiting on their own boats. This is who this is primarily aimed at. And very Welcome for them,
Local veterans who have been these waters for decades clearly have much less need for this sort of thing- though as a relative novice of 20 or so seasons I still find it interesting and refer to regularly.
Local veterans who have been these waters for decades clearly have much less need for this sort of thing- though as a relative novice of 20 or so seasons I still find it interesting and refer to regularly.
NormanS
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I must say that the publication (I prefer not to use the misleading title) does have something about anchorages: The Clyde Cruising Club encourages members to send in their list of anchorages visited each year, for publication in the Club Journal, and WA takes some of these lists and uses them as "Suggested Itineraries" graded for size of boat. As it happens, my list has been one of those published for some years now. However, I wouldn't necessarily recommend following in my footsteps. 
cpedw
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What's the usual schedule for Welcome Anchorages appearing online? Currently, it's offering the 2018 edition.
JumbleDuck
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It was very late in appearing online last year too. May?
Quandary
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Unless you are going to South Harris I think there is little difference.
