HELFORD Saturday APRIL 29th & 30th, MAY 1st, EARLY SHORT CRUISE (Spring Holiday Weekend)
HW 12.50 3.6m LW 17.55 2.2m
Anchor or pick up a mooring. There should be water to Helford River SC pontoons at low water. Supper at Club – if open and serving grub.
Sunday: explore upper reaches of Helford River
PLAN B
Porthallow Anchor off the beach. Dinghy ashore to meet up and for supper at the 5 Pilchards Pub – if its open and serving grub.
Sunday: Take inside passage through Manacles to Coverack.
Monday: Return Falmouth.
SHAKEDOWN TO FOWEY MAY 20th – 22nd
HW 0630 5.0M 1840 5.1M LW 1310 0.5M
Organiser: John and Denise Lee.
Book pontoon mooring if possible, dinghy for supper ashore at RFYC or Gallants SC
Sunday Explore up the river in dinghies?
CRUISE TO ISLES OF SCILLY JUNE 21st – JULY 3rd
21st HW 0800 4.6m 2020 4.8m LW 0220 1.0m 1430 1.2m
Outward Passage: Tide is good for a night passage, but a bit tight for day if winds between NW and SW, when overnight stop on west of Mounts Bay sensible.
Return Passage: 2nd July should aim to round Lizard in slack water at 1600.
Decisions on arrangements in Scilly by participants. But favourites include the Cove between St Agnes and Gugh, between Sampson and Puffin Island, St Helens Pool, Bryher.
Plans B and C, Cruise eastwards. in easy hops, weather permitting
CRUISE TO CHARLESTON HARBOUR Monday JULY 31st, AUG 1st Wednesday AUG 2nd,
A visit to this historic harbour was talked about for one of the early cruises, but John Heath found that they will be closed early 2023 while work on the lock gates is completed,
Boats can enter and leave only at HW Springs. So we have morning or evening arrivals and departures.
Could be combined with an overnight and day at Mevagissy on 31st – 1st.
31st HW 1700 4.9
1st HW 0530 4.8m LW 1200 0.8 HW 1750 5.2 m
2nd HW 0630 4.5 LW 1310 0.6 m HW 1840 5.0m
ROUNDWOOD QUAY BARBEQUE SUNDAY 27th AUG
HW 0150 4.1m 1430 4.3m LW 0840 1.9m; 2130 1.7m.
By boat, car and walk. Anchor off or moor alongside. Bring your own barbecue .
RUAN RIVER AND THE ROSELAND INN, PHILLEAGH WEDNESDAY 25th SEPT
HW 0140 4.0m 1420 4.3m LW 0830 2.0 2120 1.8m
Anchor off or moor on the Ruan pontoon, and dinghy up the Ruan to landing point for footpath to Philleigh.
Thoughts for midweek cruises;
PORTHALLOW for lunch, or supper at the 5 PILCHARDS INN
MEVAGISSEY
POLKERRIS Needs Neaps tide for anchorage off
PORTHALLOW Walk vie Tregaminion to St Keverne for lunch (pub or packed).
Programme ideas discussed for 2023
Other anchor and walk options (a good one day or two relaxed days option) to be developed but Porth Hallow to St Keverne (2 good pubs) is a possibility. Has anyone dinghied up the Ruan to Ruan Lanihorne (to the Kings Head) or the Tresillian River to The Wheel Inn at Tresillian which appears to have a river frontage.
All suggestions and any fun ideas are welcomed, (A description of meandering is ‘Last of the Summer Wine for sailors’, which is another good bye line for ideas)
Alternative long cruise destinations were Fowey, Cawsand Bay, the Dandy Hole on Lynner River, the Yealm, the Earme Entrance (anchor off).