Summer Getaways 2008 - tba - Page 2

Andy Moore · 04 January 2008, 13:00

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Originally Posted by Hightower

What do you need for an ICC? I thought a PBII would be sufficient to apply to the RYA for one?

Don't bother. We sail to France/CIs virtually every year and have never been asked for one. Anyway, we should kick against all this sort of stupid regulation.

philb · 04 January 2008, 13:01

Andy, you can put us down for some of those trips, lets have some prov dates put down.

Just Looking · 04 January 2008, 22:37

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Originally Posted by Hightower

My thoughts are with the Channel Islands and Western parts of Brittany.

We would be up for that as we are keen to go to Jersey

; however, we would prefer to go away for at least a few days / 1 week as opposed to just a weekend. This would allow time to explore Jersey + Guernsey + a bit of France + give a bit of a weather window

Would be keen to go during kids Summer Holidays

Hightower · 04 January 2008, 23:16

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Originally Posted by Just Looking

We would be up for that as we are keen to go to Jersey

; however, we would prefer to go away for at least a few days / 1 week as opposed to just a weekend. This would allow time to explore Jersey + Guernsey + a bit of France + give a bit of a weather window

Would be keen to go during kids Summer Holidays

I think you'll find Steve that some want to go for the weekend and some for a week. If you could combine the two sets of RIBbers in either an outward leg or return leg then you'd manage to get at least one big cruise.

I only favor long wekends as my Missus isn't as water bourne as I am and have to be mindful of the family holiday breaks

LURCHER · 07 January 2008, 09:32

I really want to do a trip from Chichester to Cherbourg St Vaas and the D Day beaches ( Arromanches) and then up the canal passing under Pegasus bridge into Caen city centre . Stay 1 night and then return . 6th June the obvious date but weather work etc will dictate that a little. Anyone up for it .

Roy Smith · 07 January 2008, 21:08

Iam not pushing the Biboa thing but there are cruises planed
to Cherbourg and St. Vast most of the people going have been before so there is experience, its just a thought.

Nos4r2 · 08 January 2008, 02:21

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Originally Posted by LURCHER

I really want to do a trip from Chichester to Cherbourg St Vaas and the D Day beaches ( Arromanches) and then up the canal passing under Pegasus bridge into Caen city centre . Stay 1 night and then return . 6th June the obvious date but weather work etc will dictate that a little. Anyone up for it .

Wish I was...

If you're going that way anyway then it's well worth getting a picnic and spending a day exploring the Napoleonic fort on Iles Saint-Marcouf. You'll need a tender to do it as the shore is quite rocky but access is easy.

Pablo · 08 January 2008, 10:41

I know this complicate matters but have you thought of taking your ribs to France on a ferry behind a car and then driving them down to southern Brittany or Vendée ? There are plenty of beautiful islands that are really worth visiting in the area. It's ideal ground for RIB cruises.

bedajim · 08 January 2008, 11:11

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Originally Posted by Roy Smith

Iam not pushing the Biboa thing but there are cruises planed
to Cherbourg and St. Vast most of the people going have been before so there is experience, its just a thought.

I can only see 2007 calender on the website ?

ian parkes · 08 January 2008, 11:15

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Originally Posted by Pablo

I know this complicate matters but have you thought of taking your ribs to France on a ferry behind a car and then driving them down to southern Brittany or Vendée ? There are plenty of beautiful islands that are really worth visiting in the area. It's ideal ground for RIB cruises.

I love Brittany , its a bit like Cornwall but unspoiled . The cost of the ferry from this end of the country is prohibitive these days and with a trailer behind it would be crazy .

Mollers · 08 January 2008, 11:59

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Originally Posted by ian parkes

its a bit like Cornwall but unspoiled .

Eh! It's pretty good away from 'Greater Plymouth' and 'Costa del Newquay'.

Roy Smith · 08 January 2008, 21:25

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Originally Posted by bedajim

I can only see 2007 calender on the website ?

Next Biboa meeting is 11 Feb and they want to finalize the cruise list for the 2008 calender so i guess it will be posted a couple of weeks later

ian parkes · 08 January 2008, 21:51

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Originally Posted by Mollers

Eh! It's pretty good away from 'Greater Plymouth' and 'Costa del Newquay'.

Its great so long as you stay afloat and get to a beach by boat .

can you remember when you was a boy

Mollers · 08 January 2008, 21:59

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Originally Posted by ian parkes

Its great so long as you stay afloat and get to a beach by boat .

can you remember when you was a boy

Totally,but even having the boat doesn't guarantee a gap in the cliff with a bit of sand to yourself nowadays.

ian parkes · 08 January 2008, 22:05

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Originally Posted by Mollers

Totally,but even having the boat doesn't guarantee a gap in the cliff with a bit of sand to yourself nowadays.

Sad innit , not having a boat for a few weeks during the summer woke me up . I decided to go to Polzeath for a surf like I used to do of an evening .
2 hrs later i got to where it used to be -----------

Mollers · 08 January 2008, 22:39

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Originally Posted by ian parkes

Sad innit , not having a boat for a few weeks during the summer woke me up . I decided to go to Polzeath for a surf like I used to do of an evening .
2 hrs later i got to where it used to be -----------

Polzeath is a beautiful beach. We always went there when I was a nipper, Hooray Henry grand central now, rammed in high season.

ian parkes · 09 January 2008, 00:32

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Originally Posted by Mollers

Polzeath is a beautiful beach. We always went there when I was a nipper, Hooray Henry grand central now, rammed in high season.

We used to walk down the low cliff on tristram field carpark and jump in the water off the rocks instead of paddling out at high tide, now its all fenced off with "danger cliff" notices on it, probably because of the drunk public school boy who fell off it while walking back to his parents holiday home.

Pablo · 09 January 2008, 14:02

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Originally Posted by ian parkes

I love Brittany , its a bit like Cornwall but unspoiled . The cost of the ferry from this end of the country is prohibitive these days and with a trailer behind it would be crazy .

From this end with an overnight crossing with car and boat with a single passenger it cost me 400€ round trip

ian parkes · 09 January 2008, 21:24

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Originally Posted by Pablo

From this end with an overnight crossing with car and boat with a single passenger it cost me 400€ round trip

Plymouth - roscoff in june is nearly £500 return towing a boat .

Hightower · 09 January 2008, 21:43

Probably too ambititous for this year, but I'd love to cruise the Gulf of Morbien on the Southern side of Brittany, I have friends that live in Vannes one who's a sailer and one that's got a small 5m fishing boat.