clarinettist
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Reged: 21/02/2008
Posts: 30
Loc: Wales
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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?
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Damo
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Reged: 22/02/2005
Posts: 2616
Loc: k keeper,Portishead
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Passports?
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seedog
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Reged: 18/07/2006
Posts: 375
Loc: Bristol
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snoopy
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Reged: 16/10/2006
Posts: 564
Loc: Bristol channel
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Break down the voyage,...... with a picnic at anchor off Flatholm [image] [/image] 
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csail
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Reged: 24/08/2005
Posts: 3306
Loc: Rhoose/Cardiff Bay,UK
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Was that picture when i met you?
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graham
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Reged: 16/05/2001
Posts: 5976
Loc: South Wales
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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.
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snoopy
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Reged: 16/10/2006
Posts: 564
Loc: Bristol channel
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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."
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csail
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Reged: 24/08/2005
Posts: 3306
Loc: Rhoose/Cardiff Bay,UK
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Engine is great, did a service (not that it needed it) but working just fine.
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