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Originally Posted by tinker
Baiter park Poole or my favourite (especially if your camping) Redcliffe campsite, it has a slipway onsite) Wareham. On the River Frome which feeds into Poole harbour, about 3 miles at under 6 knots.
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Just be aware that Baiter Park is a very shallow gradient, so with most boats on trailers expect to get your feet wet when launching! Loads of space to launch though and good parking with trailers.
But with a 4.2m boat just about any slip should be manageable - there's options in Swanage, Poole Harbour, Christchurch, Mudeford, Keyhaven, Lymington, Beaulieu, Calshot, Southampton Water/Itchen/Hamble, Portsmouth, Chichester, and further East.
It also depends what you want to do in terms of boating - personally I find going much beyond Chichester to the East there's far fewer options in terms of places to visit and stop when afloat. If you want to go out to sea fishing, fine, but if you have e.g. wife and children who want to visit places, maybe not as much to do as with the Solent or Poole/Studland/Swanage.
