What is the best place you have sailed to so far?

[dylanwinter]

the Alde is wonderful

although pyefleet above the deep water moorings is pretty good too



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6zhtpRXt54A

[AIDY]

gosport - it's the best place to sail away from !

[peterb]

Havre Gosselin (approached through the Gouliot at peak tide).

And Herm, of course, particularly if you can take the ground.

[Minn]

the Alde is wonderful

although pyefleet above the deep water moorings is pretty good too

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6zhtpRXt54A

(I also think that Secret Water is pretty good, but better slightly out of season!)

Two absolutely magic moments:

August, 1971, Pin Mill. Singlehanded out of West Mersea, a perfect afternoon, sailing slowly up the Orwell, seeing with my own eyes what I had read about in Ransome, anchored below the moorings and was serenaded by a nightingale in the trees.

August 2007, the Colne; we had sailed down the Wallet overnight to see the start of the Colne Smack and Barge Race and as we slowly sailed into the Colne and anchored in Pyefleet in the very first light of dawn we saw nothing but the oil riding lights of barges and smacks.. we could have stepped back a century.

[Ional]

Houat, off the beach on SW side, when its blowing N ly.

And Sauzon, inner harbour, cos we have a lifting keel.

[parsifal]

Havre Gosselin (approached through the Gouliot at peak tide).

+1

Although best not leave it too late to appreciate the scenery

[LadyInBed]

Locally - I love Lulworth Cove
More distant - Port Cros off the Hyeres peninsular S France
and the Calanques de Cassis S France

[TQA]

Phuilladobhrain West Coast of Scotland

Tobago Cays the Grenadines

Almost anywhere in the Turks and Caicos

[Whiskey Bravo]

Everywhere I've ever sailed I've enjoyed, even Scotland where it rained for a week and blew over 50kts at times. [The enjoyable bit about that was we were tied up in Oban]

[RichardS]

Of all the places we visited, for us it is Bimini in the Bahamas.

Not the north end, but the southern end of North Bimini (Alice Town) and South Bimini it's-self.

Fabulous water colors surround the beaches, and the Gulf Stream is teaming with game fish and sharks. There is also the Bimini Boa, the Shark Lab, the wonderful characters who live there and the legends of Hemingway and Juan Ponce de Lyon.

I would also go for the Bahamas but the Abacos as I've never been to Bimini.

We have vowed to return in our own boat one day as, with less draft, we will be able to avoid running into the sand at regular intervals!

Richard