Yarmouth Buoys - OK for overnight?

[YAYoHamble]

...or a bit rolly for non-sailing family?

After a year off sailing following a road accident, I've been out on the Solent over the past couple of weeks and plan to go out with the family on board tomorrow.

Thought of going to Yarmouth as a suitable family friendly destination and hanging off the visitors' moorings overnight. Just occurred to me that it might be a bit exposed for those less with less sea time. Any thoughts?

 

[linsayh]

Only been once and that was quiet. Tomorrow is forecast maybe F4+ according to the Cowes Week weather blokey.

But, 11mtr = £15.50 /forums/images/graemlins/ooo.gif

 

[BlueChip]

Generally its very well sheltered in SW winds, the eastern end of the moorings is quieter as are those moorings as far inshore as your length/draft allows. Spring tides can lead to rolling, as can wash from the odd passing ship in the night. Most times though things settle down nicely when the traffic stops

Personally I prefer to anchor very close in at Colwell Bay just west of the pier, just inside Hurst spit by the lighthouse cottages, or just outside Newtown Creek - according to the wind direction, but of course that's well away from the pleasures of Yarmouth.

 

[BrendanS]

Agreed, very few people venture out into the Solent of an evening, and it can be incredibly calm once everyone has gone home. You are always going to get some rolling on moorings outside a harbour, but Yarmouth moorings are typically protected from prevailing winds.

Can become more boisterous in an Easterly, but in most cases it's fine.

Never going to be as flat as a marina berth though

 

[l'escargot]

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....Personally I prefer to anchor very close in at Colwell Bay just west of the pier...

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There isn't a pier in Colwell Bay. Do you mean Totland Bay, or the jetty in Alum Bay?

 

[BlueChip]

oops sorry, yes I meant Totland Bay, though people do anchor in Colwell Bay as well.

 

[LadyInBed]

You don’t say what sort of boat you have - keel depth and weight is everything when it comes to rocking around.
Why don’t you save yourself a few quid and anchor just inside of the buoys, it’s not so exposed, but don’t forget to hoist an anchor light /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif

 

[copterdoctor]

We use the buoys quite often - very nice, a couple of trips in the water taxi can start to make it work out a bit pricey. Don't do what we did, lovely warm night bit of a swell, we sat in the cockpit with a lamp hanging from the boom, poor daughter No1 lasted half an hour before having to retire unwell!

 

[brianhumber]

Re: Yarmouth Buoys - OK for overnight? - Depends

Depends on wind direction, strength and tides. Generally ok though unless its over a 6

If you use the ferry and showers its very expensive. A cheapskate like me anchors well inshore and uses his own dinghy or only goes on a HM mooring out of season when I can arrive after the HM has knocked off and leave before he gets out of bed.

Brian

 

[cliff]

I prefer Yarmouth girls myself rather than the boys - ooops misread your post. /forums/images/graemlins/smirk.gif
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