Beach picnic, East Head, Chichester, Saturday 13 July

John Kennett · 07 July 2013, 18:58

It looks like the good weather may still be here next weekend, so we're planning a picnic at East Head in Chichester Harbour. It's a lovely sandy beach, good for sandcastles and swimming.

We'll be launching early at Itchenor, aiming to get there about 9am to avoid the worst of the hideous traffic heading to the Witterings. We may go from there straight to the beach, or may bimble around the harbour a bit. We might take kayaks too.

There are other potential launch sites in the harbour if you prefer, or you can obviously come by sea from further afield.

SIBs can be pulled up on the beach, larger boats can be anchored off or just nudged onto the beach. We'll have a falling tide in the morning so plan accordingly. If anyone needs a taxi service to the beach we'd be happy to oblige.

Anyone up for it?

mark241 · 07 July 2013, 20:28

Yes we would like to do this and will be coming round from the Itchen.

Fingers crossed then the weather hangs around...

John Kennett · 07 July 2013, 21:17

Looking good at the moment

bingosucks · 08 July 2013, 19:04

john why are you doing this too me !!! haha could be up for this too

John Kennett · 08 July 2013, 19:44

That would be serious dedication!

Rumbustious · 08 July 2013, 23:47

It is Goodwood festival of speed this Fri/Sat/Sun so traffic might be heavy

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John Kennett · 09 July 2013, 16:43

Good point, that definitely won't help. We're just going to hope we're early enough to miss the worst.

mark241 · 11 July 2013, 14:57

Hi John,

Having not come round to East Head before and having not met you before do you have a cunning plan in place on where to meet up yet ?

I thought you might get a bigger show of hands given the weather - maybe everyones going off to the GFS !
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John Kennett · 11 July 2013, 16:31

We'll see you on the beach! Look out for a pair of Bombard 380s

Any idea what time you'll be arriving?

thomas · 11 July 2013, 16:46

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Originally Posted by Rumbustious

It is Goodwood festival of speed this Fri/Sat/Sun so traffic might be heavy

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Love the 'Might' we live near Goodwood and it's a nightmare, with any luck it will deter beach goers but doubt it.

Last Sunday the A286 was backed up to the A27 and then back to Tesco, your best route is come off at the ski lake(B2145), if coming from the west then go over the top of Chichester, then use Green Ln to get back to the Birdham road, still a PITA to get to Itchenor but if it's bad then launch at the marina.

We're off to London for the w/e eek!

bingosucks · 11 July 2013, 17:10

I think we we skip this one as we have a little further to travel.. shame though as this is what i brought the sib for..but you never know

John Kennett · 11 July 2013, 17:31

You're a long way from the sea whichever way you go! Have you had the SIB out on the canal worrying narrow boats yet?

bingosucks · 11 July 2013, 17:41

were about 4 miles from meriden (official centre ..i think ) lmao boat out on the cut too many shopping trolleys for that (sad but true) stratford is half hour away much nicer though the boaties try racing me in the row boats with 4 hosses strapped on the back ..oh dear
i`m just checking out accomadation now as i`m gonna have to work a few saturdays in august
just love ribnet ,with out which this inner city boy (yep i come from one the worst estates in cov ) wouldn`t have a clue about where to launch

Sunstreaker · 11 July 2013, 17:46

I have been sitting in the wings not wanting to be negative, but as Thomas commented GFS weekend is a nightmare, I live nr Arundel and usually can't make it out the house for three days. If your coming from the east stick to the a259 it's still bad but may be better than A27.

John Kennett · 11 July 2013, 20:18

Right, we've had a council of war and decided that tangling with the traffic on Saturday just isn't worth the aggro. So we're going to take everyone's advice and give it a miss this weekend, sorry Mark!

It is a great day out though so will try to do it another time.

Nauti Buoy · 11 July 2013, 20:31

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Originally Posted by John Kennett

Right, we've had a council of war and decided that tangling with the traffic on Saturday just isn't worth the aggro. So we're going to take everyone's advice and give it a miss this weekend, sorry Mark!

It is a great day out though so will try to do it another time.

Incidentally last Sunday the que to West Wittering beach went right back to A27!!! and the fool hardy were even queing to get to the beach back to Chichester Marina until gone 4pm - kinda pointless if you ask me!!

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mark241 · 12 July 2013, 19:59

No worries. Determined to make the most of the weather this weekend so will still have picnic on our own most probably at East Head but coming round by sea. Having been to the festival of speed today, I can see that the roads are gonna be packed. We went by bike today, had a great run there and back but must have passed a minimum 6 miles of stationary traffic, and today was supposed to be the quieter of the days !! A great start to a great weekend for us.