Yarmouth or Cowes or neither

[ip485]

Big thumbs up to the Creek, but the OP specifically said no anchoring or bouys, so it rules that out.

It is beautiful.

 

[LadyInBed]

Big thumbs up to the Creek, but the OP specifically said no anchoring or bouys, so it rules that out.

It is beautiful.

I know the OP said no anchoring or buoys but maybe we can sway him as I only suggest it for the first night.
After a long days sail, when I arrive I just want to tie up to something quickly and if not too late, cook dinner and get my head down. I don't want to faff around with Marinas, getting allocated a slot and putting out fenders and lines.

 

[PhillM]

You do have to spend a lot of money in Gunwharf to come away with more shopping than you can comfortably carry!

Not if its toilet rolls and milk from Tesco Express

 

[Daydream believer]

I know the OP said no anchoring or buoys but maybe we can sway him as I only suggest it for the first night.
After a long days sail, when I arrive I just want to tie up to something quickly and if not too late, cook dinner and get my head down. I don't want to faff around with Marinas, getting allocated a slot and putting out fenders and lines.

You are not going to sway me.
For some reason I often get sea sick on a mooring & sometimes it can happen in minutes of mooring. I just cannot do it.

 

[Resolution]

Not if its toilet rolls and milk from Tesco Express

You must lead a truly debauched life on board.

 

[DJE]

I was starting to think that I had missed out on somewhere on the IoW. I have just looked up Gunwharf Quay and it's on the mainland!

Thread drift in the true geographic sense.

 

[scotty123]

Thread drift in the true geographic sense.

Its located on somewhere the Iow corkies call 'north island'.

 

[ip485]

You are not going to sway me.
For some reason I often get sea sick on a mooring & sometimes it can happen in minutes of mooring. I just cannot do it.

You may be best not morring up to close to where the ferry comes in then.

I was opposite last week on the end of the finger jetty and even in the IP - all 26 tons, you were aware it had arrived or left. Fortunately it stops reasonably early, but the clunk of the cars and lorries over the loading plates lets you know the car park is about to empty. It can definitely get a bit sloopy just inside the entrance if the tide and wind so conspire, and watching someone trying to get into their tender from a boat by the ramp was an event they were clearly finding had a challenging component to it. Head for a berth up by the yacht club or up towards the bridge and it will be more comfortable.