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Initially idea was Cruise takes off during the week of 21 - 27th May 2006 around various bolt-holes of Solent .... culminating in a get-together in Bembridge over the week-end of 27 - 28 May Bank Holiday.
Unfortunately Bembridge has declined our booking for that weekend - Sat 27th - as Seawych Assopciation has claimed first ... so we need to either sort another location or possibly dates ...
Take note that Round Island Race .... Volvo do .... etc. are all around that time as well ....
We are hoping to have a get-together suitable for families and provide games / interest for younger crew ....
The food aspect is via Beach BBQ and this allows everyone to have what they want - how they want etc.
Sorry for the hitch - but this was another reason that we posted this early for people to start thinking about it ...
We need your help and suggestions to really get this back on track ....
Clive_Rigden
07-10-05, 13:30
Count me in with Enigma please.
What about Newtown, Studland or Osborne Bay?
Nigel,
Perhaps Harold Hayles at Yarmouth would be the answer. If there is enough interest, book the whole pontoon, if there are any late comers then it will be pot luck in the harbour. We have before now (ETAP Owners Assc) had a BBQ at the sailing club, just over the bridge, good facilities and a bar!
One aspect we have to be careful about is the Family side and carraige of small children - nervous people in dinghys etc. In Yarmouth Harbour its calmer and safer for dinghy rides to the BBQ area , but such as Osborne Bay / Priory Bay etc. it can be subject to some choppy seas ...
Studland is outside Solent - not a problem for Jim and myself as we are planning to start out earlier in the week ... but others may only depart that morning ... with idea to return next day ...
So possibles keeping the Solent aspect which helps for kiddies etc. :
Bembridge
Yarmouth
Newtown (but I think BBQ's are not allowed ?? RSPB ??)
Priory Bay
Osborne Bay
East Head Chichester
Hurst Point (Keyhaven entrance)
So where / when ?????? Keep same dates and change to Yarmouth ? Harold Hayles pontoons as block booking ... or try booking with Yarmouth HM on public pontoons ??
Unfortunately Folly is not really suited to a Family games and BBQ do ... no real area to do it in ... and no beach !!
In fact the sand dunes due north of HH has BBQ pits and stands purpose designed .....
Only two matters with HH .... he's relatively expensive and also anyone wanting electric has to cobble together a 3 pin domestic conversion connector to adapt a normal marina / caravan plug to fit his supply box .... BUT you do have walk ashore capability, electric and water etc.
Over to others comments ????
But yes its a good alternative ......
The electrical connection at HH is far less complicated than that at Newtown Creek, Osborn bay or East Head! /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif
Yarmouth also has a lot of family friendly pubs if the weather puts paid to a BBQ plan...............
.... and its closer for Duncan to get to!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
You can walk ashore at East Head, if you pick a good weekend!
If I walked ashore from my boat, it would have fallen over first
As alternative - if we keep same dates :
I have mailed to Yarmouth HM as to booking ....
I can also contact H.Hayles if that is preferred ....
It would be nice to have a feel for which way this will fall ... Yarmouth or other etc.
For me - I haven't booked my flight yet - so flexible ....
nigel I dont believe HM takes bookings only HH, I MAY be wrong.
I was referring to the ability to cross everyone elses boat to the shore ... ours would fall over too if we got too shallow - and that would still be out of my depth!
Hey! That sounds a good idea, so we get someone with a bilge keeler on the inside nearest the beach, then a shallow draft, something, then the rest of us raft off! Brilliant. I wonder if there is a record somewhere as to how many boats you can raft off a 20ft Kingfisher! tee hee!
The Yarmouth Harbour web-site says they do - even give a direct click on e-mail link ..... must admit that previously I always booked into HH .....
We could start off with Talbot as the innermost boat - plenty of room on deck for the BBQ ... !!
Hmm - sizable raft like that would stuff up the racing fleets as they try and sneek along the shore!
You get a nice solid lift keel job ... say a 30'ish ft Feeling to poke its nose up the beach end on. Then another slightly bigger one up its chuff end on ... now you have enough water for a small bilge keeler to side on to the arse of the second. This provides the basis of a T jetty .... now you build up layers of ever increasing size BK'rs till sufficient depth to get the average AWB as a decent fender bender before the older deeper long-keel jobs side up to the whole affair ...... As more trad boats arrive - you add additional AWB's as fenders to protect the heavy-weight trads ......
Voila happy families !!!!
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Clive_Rigden
07-10-05, 15:36
Yarmouth, esp. HH fine by me.
Clive_Rigden
07-10-05, 15:40
Just a thought Nigel;
why don't we have a Yarmouth get together the following month -
perhaps go to Bembridge?
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sizable raft like that would stuff up the racing fleets as they try and sneek along the shore!
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Let me see now......
No can't see a problem with that!
Someone had to come up with that one .....
Wasn't my fault that Bembridge went Seawych Owners Association for 35th year !!!!
Have you considered Island Harbour marina (just south of the Folly) Biggest problem with it is the need to lock in and out, and the times for that are dependent on your depth and springs/neaps (see here (http://www.island-harbour.co.uk/tide.html)).
Yarmouth is not too far for me so I would be interested
Keith
Have heard some dismal reports for it ... but am open to suggestion ...
So anyone with comments about it ??
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We could start off with Talbot as the innermost boat - plenty of room on deck for the BBQ ... !!
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I have cooked on a BBQ for 13 people onboard (Gas BBQ) and on that day ended up with 26 people onboard.
On another occasion with the BBQ ended up with a friendly chap rowing across witha fire extinguisher cause he thought that the smoke from the sausages was really a fire onboard. personally I reckon he was just after a sausage
I must be the only person for miles around to have English Best Pork and Beef Sausages ........... you cannot get 'em for love nor money out here .... I normally carry a couple of large packs back in checked bags from UK .... sod EU - English sausages are unique and the best ....
Tonight its Bangers and mash ... SWMBO's choice I may add !!
I like the proper savoury UK sausage, but also like Bratwurst. Most UK sausage contains rusk, so its a no-no for me, but local butcher will make up specials.
VicMallows
09-10-05, 23:00
Yes, please add me to the list.
Personal preferences:
Newtown (there's no prob with BBQs on the beach West side).
East Head.
Priory (but I'm a bilge keeler).
Personally I will never go to Bembridge ever since the HM turned out in January to demand his £5 for drying on the beach, AND accused me of having a noisy party!! (local youths messing around). As for the new pontoon ..... don't have that sort of cash!.
Vic 'Sundash' Sadler29
Ok we have so far about 12 boats so far ranging from 23 up to 38ft..... some have given indication of numbers of children / crew .. many haven't !!
Provisional pencil in at Harold Hayles has been done for Saturday 27th May 2006 ... with other days / nights to individual reqt's ... (Fees payable by each boat please directly)
The fees quoted to me (based on 2005 , as they didn't have 2006 at hand yet ...) :>
Up to 25ft £14
........30ft £17
........35ft £20
........40ft £23
all incl Electric / Water.
Note that electric at present is supplied via a household domestic 3 pin socket and adaptor is required to convert Caravan plug to 3 pin. HH advise that they are planning change to standard marina / caravan plug system shortly and cannot say if May 2006 is changed or not ...
The preceeding week - as already mentioned ... I and a few other boats plan to do a jolly around the Solent region - finishing up at Yarmouth HH on the Friday - ready for the fun to start on Saturday ... Anyone who wishes to tag along with us is very welcome ... but please note that we are Bilge Keelers and will "boldly go" where no fin-man has been before !!
PLEASE NOTE ABOVE IS NOT FINAL AND SUBJECT TO MAJORITY DECISION AND ALSO PREVAILING CIRCUMSTANCES AT THE TIME ...
Can I ask all those intending to come on this meet ... can you :
Boat Name
Skippers ID (Forum ID is fine)
Number of crew incl. SWMBO / KIds etc.....
LOA
Keel type
Will you be joining the Solent Jolly part or whole week
Will you be at Yarmouth BBQ Saturday
Number of under 18's
SWMBO ? or HMBO ... (there are some lady's with sensible shoes who command the boat !!!) /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif
This will help us sort out etc. ........... we also need suggestions for games and activities ... eg Boules, Rounders, Cricket, Treasure Hunt, etc. etc.
The Dunes area of Yarmough have BBQ stands provided ... bit manky last time I saw them - but a quick burn off with spirit sorts that ... and behind the dunes I seem to remember is quite a large area ...
Access to the BBQ area from HH is better by very short 50yd dinghy ride ... and I shall provide my dinghy with solid floor fitted ... if anyone else cares to help - much apprecaited, otherwise it is a bit of walk round the marshy bit ...
All we have to do now is pray to the Weather gods and hope all is fine ...
Nigel your mailbox is full!
Anne and I will be there with Galadriel 35ft fin keel. We will (depending on tide) join you all on Friday evening, we get there when we get there (try not to wake anyone!)
Hi Jude
Talbot
Total = 2 (Mrs Talbot)
9m
Shallow keel!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!(narrow cat)
Possible join preceeding week (would be last minute decision)
BBQ = Yes
Under 18 = Nil (the've grown up at last)
Are those fees the same for multihulls? (only 4 metres wide)
Will try and find out ... never rafted on cat before ... sat on a dog !! If you see our second youngest dog out here - he's near double the size of our Alsation !!!
Will find out .... have to talk to HH again anyway as it seems there may be a few turning up the Friday with us ....
I get a lot of useful stuff PM'd to me often ... and MB is not big enough ... so have to lose it ...
You'll find my box is near empty now - so let me hear from yo'all !!
paddywackcocker
10-10-05, 18:52
I shall be bobbing into Yarmouth on the friday night arfter another masive solent passage from the folly on Thursday night, if any body else is around. (if the others want to make it a stop off)
Nigel tou have rest of my details except for depth=1.5m
Pat
Nigel
All our details are now on the thread, or do you still want a PM?
rafting on a cat is a bit like rafting on a pontoon, in that you dont have to worry about masts clashing, its a flat side that you are aiming at, low freeboard for climbing across etc etc
Count me in, sent pm. went there this w/e and the other boaties had got a good game of 'find your dinghy after the pub closes', was great to sit in my cockpit 50yrds from dinghy pontoon and listen to the comments from the SWMBO's about the likelyhood of various Jolly skippers getting them back to their bunks /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif
Nigel,
We're very interested - hopefully Bedouin plus whole family
Have you thought of Island Harbour? Good for walks and kids and some new pontoons. Can also walk back to Folly for Sat night dance on tables w/o being triple berthed in the river.
suggested it earlier, but havent been in there for a number of years so I dont know the condition of the pontoons/facilities (they were pretty tired last time we were there) Position should make it much more popular than it is, and it was obviously an underfunded development. Allowing the old paddlesteamer to disintegrate has to have been the marketing disaster of the half century.
VicMallows
11-10-05, 19:48
Believe it was taken over in the last couple of years, and was looking a lot better when I walked around earlier in the year. Agree about the old hulk....what a mess.
(great anchorage opposite for some of us /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif ).
Now, can someone kindly enlighten me as to where the Harold Hayles pontoon is exactly in Yarmouth? ....have tried all the usual searches. Have only been inside the hbr a few times as usually prefer to be at anchor.
Vic
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(great anchorage opposite for some of us ).
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Dont tell everybody, It can get quite crowded already
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