Aceasta este vizita mea de vara din 22 la Alderney, care a devenit mai grea decât mă așteptam. Informații despre pilotaj cu adevărat!
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Aceasta este vizita mea de vara din 22 la Alderney, care a devenit mai grea decât mă așteptam. Informații despre pilotaj cu adevărat!
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A family at my club spend every summer holiday drying their bilge keeler out on a beach somewhere in Alderney. They seem to love it. Mentioned it to another chap and he said "oh no, Guernsey is far more civilized!" I look forward to visiting one of them later this year
Now that is a good sail, what a lovely spot. We are sailing with a dog so not sure we can drop easily into France (or rather leave for the UK). We have yet to pick up the courage to try the Channel Islands. May be a bit sooner than planned having watched this. 😀
I did that very trip (Cherbourg to Braye) this year. Then down to Carteret from Braye the next day. Lovely area. We didn't rely on the counter-current. The race was fine even in 20 knots wind as we got the timing spot on (not difficult if you are coming from Braye) – slack but starting to go SW.
I think the harbour wall dates back to our contretemps with the French.
what size engine do you have on the boat?
Thanks for a lovely video! Looks like a great sail and a nice place to visit!
Nice. Very informative. Thanks.
Thanks Michael. Sounds like paradise, if you get the tides right.
Nice video with lots of up to date info. A+++.
I am surprised there are no signs in Bray harbour advertising which channel the taxi service is now on. It might be on their website?
I have many fond memories of crossing the channel from Portsmouth straight into Alderney in the early mid 1980s. Fortunately was never pushed off course into Cherbourg. It was a fabulous little place back then. The anchorage can be a bit lumpy if the wind is from the NNW. I remember those mooring boys well.
There used to be a branch of all the high street banks in St. Annes probably little changed from the 1950/60s. Shouldn't imagine that is the case any longer with many banks having now closed branches in major towns on the UK mainland.
Alderney residents were evacuated prior to occupation by the Germans in WW2 who then built the outer high harbour wall and also set up prisoner of war camps on the island. They built lots of fortifications and pretty much destroyed the town burning anything and everything for fuel. They also made the prisoners of war the had captured and sent to Alderney dig a network of tunnels on the island.
Leaving Alderney to go down through the Swinge Race to St. Peter on Guernsey is a great short passage if you time it right. The tide in the Swinge is VERY strong.
Sailing in these waters is perilous if you get the tides wrong. There are many wrecks whose skippers have come a cropper. If you are caught out the only thing you can really do is turn around and go back with the tide and wait it out either back in port or hunker down some where until the tide changes. The tidal drop especially in St. Peter Port on Guernsey and also on St. Helier in Jersey is pretty big so be prepared.
Great sailing memories of the Channel Islands. Would love to go back.
Lovely to see a new video. 👍
I've been thinking about the not with a Honda Generator options for top up charging your batteries , if you don't want Solar Panels or a Wind Generator. There is a thing called a Fuel Cell with an output of 12v DC amps, of vstious sizes. It uses Methanol Fuel, and seems quite practical in the USA or Canada Anyway, much maybdepend of course on how much Methanol fuel may cost on this side of the Atlantic. I may pick one up as a backup, when over on that side, likely late next year, all being equal. Fair Winds and Calm Anchorages. Bob. 👍🙂
Enjoyed watching, thanks.
Always a great visit to your channel
Thanks Michael. Always enjoy your videos, so informative, like a video pilot. It’s been a while since I sailed to Alderney and it is in my mind to go this year so this was very timely. Cheers. Andy UK
Thank you, lovely stuff!
Thanks, very enjoyable, especially the last scene where you're just chilling out with a cocktail, looks like a lovely peaceful spot.
Excellent once again and very informative – thank you Michael
Always very interesting Michael, many thanks.
Great real information. Thanks
Excellent and informative as usual.
Hi I did exactly the same journey years ago , you have brought back great memories thank you and I really enjoy your videos .
Love it all but this style is most helpful in several respects. You show a keen sense of direction. From the beautiful southern shores of Canada.
Thank you very much for an interesting and very informative video. I would love to go back to Alderney, where I worked for a few days as a young man in about 1965 getting ITV to the islands. At that time there was no one in the High Street, and we drank in the Campagne until all hours.
As I sit on my yacht in the Isles of Scilly this video provides me with my next target and means to get there. Thanks for sharing 👍 😊
Great video, thanks.
4 is pretty good, when I did it single handed at 1am it took more than twice that
Informative and blissful in equal measure
Hi there, it's Bob again. I've got a link for you to an Outstanding YouTube channel that has a series of lectures on how to do Boat Solar, Wiring etc, up to proper high safety standards. They're actually the people who explained why putting a Honda Generator or similar on a boat is really dangerous. Yes, a bit technical, but they explain everything really well, plus go through options. I think you'll find them as useful as I did :
https://youtu.be/6OTcZNe-0eA
Thank you so much for such a fantastic video. We are hoping to sail to Alderney for the first time this summer, and you have answered all the questions and more that I still had. Bravo Sir.
So interesting and helpful for own planning, thanks a lot!
Thank you so much for this video, very interesting and informative. I really like the way you explain everything in a way thats easy to understand. Having just done my DS theory and waiting to do my practical, I was just wondering how you ended up being pushed too far East and having to pop into Cherbourg overnight. Did your CTS not work out or were the conditions different to what you expected maybe? Just genuinely interested. Thanks again 🙂
Hi Michael
And thank you yet again for another brilliant offering …just to say / shout about, I’ve just bought my very first boat.
A Westerly Tiger 25 currently fully paid up @ Gosport till July 2023 (inclusive in the insanely cheap price I’ve paid)…ready to sail apparently having done Portsmouth to IOW this year, let ya know how it goes this weekend after I see her for the first time after journeying from Yorkshire to acquaint myself 😁👍
That’s a tight fit into that inner harbor. Thanks for the reality check in mooring or anchoring into a marina or harbor single handed. It’s not easy and sometimes takes a few tries to get it right. I single handed my Baltic 43 from Ensenada MX back to home port of SF bay just recently and the trepidation and stress of entering a unknown marina or anchorage is something to experience. Great video
Your advice is as erudite as it is priceless. On the basis of your overall observations, I came in from Guernsey on Monday, taking a wide route around the Casquests as the tides were adverse in both the Race and the Swinge. The overfalls around here are absolute haystacks, complete with "holes in the sea" (i.e negative waves)
Little Crabby Harbour is tidal and very, very tight. Even at £1.65 per litre, there's no way I am going to take my 33 footer in there!
The moorings and anchorages over on the east side of the bay are very Roly Poly and few boats stay put after the first night. Closer in to the wall it's far more pleasant, but buoys are like hen's teeth and the HM doesn't take kindly to people mooring up on the orange "Locals" moorings. The water taxi is reliable, inexpensive and extremely friendly; although nominally on Channel 73, they clearly monitor the Alderney Coastguard / HM traffic on Ch74, which in practice is all you really need to use whilst here.
I'm very glad I came, but I won't be back – £20 a night for a rocky horror show mooring on a buoy is surely a bit steep, and although it's certainly quaint, I don't think there is quite enough about Alderney to warrant staying more than a couple of days en route to somewhere more cosmopolitan.
Thank you for yet another great video.
I really like your videos 🙏
Have you had a chance to find out where you went wrong with the passage plan from Cherbourg to Alderney? Those tides are quite something!
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Good video Michael. I bought one of those boat hooks for a trip to Alderney this summer (before I saw the video) handy tool -you need all the help you can get. One point about the first time entering Braye you can get a strong current W to E which then flips round as you get closer and into a counter current-can confuse things a bit when you are lining up. The yellow line on the chart plotter is a godsend for keeping you pointed at the harbour entrance
I watched your Cows and Yarmouth and now this, it all brings back such good memories, thank you.
I am surprised that you don't ware a life jacket and safety harness and a personal Eperb I do a lot of single handed sailing and always ware them enjoy your posts
Great work. I did that passage this summer and was met with 25ish kts SW at Pt Hague – sailing is never dull. One point of interest is that the breakwater was built by the UK ostensibly to make Alderney a "Port of Refuge". In fact it was aimed at keeping an eye on the French, as the building of Cherbourg had spooked the politicians. It was never finished, as the will and the money ran out, it mirrors the similar unfinished work at St Catherine's Jersey. I always enjoy the videos, thanks.
Did you not experience any customs/immigration issues? Both French and British.