Navigare spre CHERBOURG

33 thoughts on “Navigare spre CHERBOURG”

1. Nice and informative!

2. this was lovely! Well done friends. Fair winds

3. Really Really helpful – thank you (please can you do Fecamp and Le Harve)

4. Thank you so much for sharing your invaluable experience and advice. It certainly adds confidence to any viewers planning the same passage.

5. Fantastic! Just what I have been looking for, no drama, tits or arse, a real site about the information needed at last, Thanks for you time.

6. I really am enjoying this series,very useful and enjoyable.
   Thank you!

7. Absolutely superb vlog, helpful, informative and easy graphics.
   Recommend this channel to all your boating friends it really deserves many more subscribers!
   Press that like button too !!!

8. Thank you for posting these wonderful videos. They're feeding my dreams for when better days come and we can get out sailing again. In 2025 or thereabouts (post retirement), we plan to sail our 10m sloop from the top of Northern Ireland to the Med via Cherbourg – Le Havre – inland waterways and your videos and book are an immense help for our passage planning.

9. Amazing, clear content – will be useful for the eventual trip across the channel. Do you have any experience/advice sailing down the east coast of England? Will be using a northern port to start from.

10. Top tips. Cherbourg is always a delight and very easy and welcoming.
    The navigational aspects of this channel crossing can't be over emphasised. 60 miles @ 5kts is 12 hours which is, more or less, one tide. Point the bow at Cherbourg and just go. The, often under emphasised, bonus with this plan is that you will be crossing the traffic separation scheme on a heading as nearly as practicable at right angles to the general direction of traffic flow. I'm sure I read something in the COLREGS once about this being the correct way to do things. Read that again, your heading needs to be at right angles to the shipping lane, not your track.

11. Another great episode. Thanks.

12. Ask for your RYA discount, they are very helpful at the marina.

13. Thanks for this. It's incredibly useful to see exactly what to expect on arrival. Most guides skim over this stuff!

14. I must say that I thoroughly enjoyed the way you depicted all the important planning information on maps, tidal charts, along with a short video of entering the Marina and pictures of the nice to know services. The way you sit on your chair and tell a chronological story of your passage, it is so engaging and interesting. It is fantastic and inspiring for us aspiring new sailors, thank you very much Michael.

15. Love the calm common sense as well as the knowledge. So clearly and generously given. My 'voyages' have so far been limited to pootling about off the coast of Long Island in nothing larger than 30 foot, wondering what I'm doing. (Quite likely everyone else on the water is wondering what I'm doing too.) But I love it, and love to hear this kind of stuff. And learn from it. You're a wonderful communicator.

16. VERY GOOD INFO…THANKS 👍👍👍

17. Last time I sailed into Cherbourg was in 1961! Guess it's changed somewhat since then…Are you allowed to anchor in the outer harbour?

18. Thank you so much Michael for your effort and information. I plan to sail down from Blankenberge to Gibraltar this summer and already bought your book Gentle sailing route to the Mediterranean 🙏👍

19. Another terrific video Michael, like your others, it's inspiring and I can't wait to find a boat! Perhaps you could share your thoughts on that with us please?

20. Great, more please!!

21. Do you cover beating a return …..ways to minimise the winds and tides plus heavy weather ?

22. Brilliant thanks for sharing

23. good video, informative! look forward to more! 🙂

24. Enjoying your style of presentation and the information given. I have sailed and raced across the channel many times, mostly as crew and now with my on boat things are a little different. St Vasst is one of my favourite ports and further East Deauville and on the West Coast St a Malo. Let’s hope the CI opens up soon as that is another great cruising ground. Andy UK

25. Great explanations. Very genuine and interesting. Thanks.

26. This was actually one of the better videos on sailing to Cherbourg. Parts of it remind me of visiting it for the first time with my dad after a force 6 headwind for 14hrs on a old quarter tonner aged 8, holds very fond memories

27. Word of Warning: I was crossing the Channel in my Targa motor-boat and was using AIS to track nearby ships. Suddenly, a 70,000T ship turned 90 degrees to starboard as it had spotted a trawler, presumably with its gear down, immediately off the end of a TSS segment (sensible, know-all trawler skipper?), and taken evasive action. Being 'motor' it was not a problem to keep clear, but a sailing boat could be easily caught out. BEWARE near ANY trawler mixing it with ocean-going ships.

28. I‘ve been there in January 2020. It was cold. And it was Pandemic-Panic-Mode. But so nice to see it again on your video – I gladly follow your videos from the med. I will be there in 2-3 years …

29. I'm desperate to do this trip in my 22 footer this year, was great to see you did it in the same! Can you call the marina up in English? Even if I used my 20yr old GCSE grade B to request a berth I'm afraid I'd never l understand the reply…

30. Hey massive thanks we used this and sailed to France today for the first time. Very useful.

31. Hi again really enjoy this video reminds me of the 1st channel crossing i did Thank you for bringing back memories , j

32. Another great SG video.

33. That was a really useful video, thank you.

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