Cherbourg Saturday

[Spud]

Im planning on crossing to Cherbourg on Saturday launching from Lymington if anyone fancies it let me know. I missed the BIBOA Rib raid a few weeks back but it sounded like a great day. Im hoping for the weather to be ok but if not i will just Cruise around the Island.


Spud

[Richard B]

Spud,

You might find that Lymington is very busy on Saturday, and lots of RIBsters will be looking at yachts (stranger things have happened!)

See Mr 7's post: Round The Island Race June 2003

[Spud]

Hi Richard,

I realise that there will be alot of traffic about on Saturday morning but i was hoping to be an early bird and beat the rush out. Thanks for the advice though, would you recommend somewhere else to launch from early on Saturday then as i dont really want to be hanging around all day trying to launch.


Regards Spud

[Richard B]

No probs, spud. Have you looked at the notice to mariners that Pete's linked to in his thread... the yacht race is making an early start!

Lyington (yacht club) is an excellent slipway and I don't know of a better one in the area, so I'd stick with it. Beating the rush sounds like a good idea.

[Spud]

Thanks Richard,
I see the Race stars early are there going to be boats launching off this slip really early, i live in Gloucestershire so im probably going to have to come down today in order to be early enough.

[Ribald]

Spud, you could try Hythe Marina slip on Southampton Water. Free launching & parking and quite easy for you to get to from the west.

Check it out on boatlaunch.

[Andre]

Spud

Hope you have the same weather conditions we had last Sunday

Andre

[Spud]

Thanks Andre,

Me too, very jealous after seeing all your photos. Much better conditions than my last attempt at crossing with Mike C and others last year. Suffice to say we turned back about 25 miles out with Mike feeling a little under the weather!! Fingers crossed for this trip,

Spud

[MarkWildey]

Spud Man

I'm crossing the channel on Saturday, although heading for Jersey.

What time are you setting off ?

Regards

Mark

[Spud]

Hi Mark,
Hoping to have better luck than my last attempt in which i came back part way with you. We are launching from Lymington at about 8am hopefully. Call me on my moby 07939156666 if you can accompany us for part of the journey at least. Im on the road at 4am so you will get me anytime up till we launch. Havent got a vhf operators licence yet though have got one on board so will listen out for you ch16 boat name ' Calypso'!
Cheers Spud