Meeting in Devon

NOTE: To suit several members in the Devon/Cornwall area, we have moved this event back one week from the 7th June date that was previously given as a provisional date on this calendar.

Our plan is to go sailing from Mount Batten on Saturday morning returning to Mount Batten for a pub meal on Saturday evening then the possibility of further sailing on the Sunday.

We plan to meet for an evening meal at the The Bridge marina restaurant,  Shaw Way, Mount Batten, Plymouth PL9 9XH from 7:00pm on Saturday 14 June.  Please contact chairman@ayrs.org to be included in the table booking.

Members are invited to come to Mount Batten with or without a boat and sail together, subject to weather conditions.

Mount Batten (PL9 9SJ) offers facilities to suit any craft from a SUP to a super-yacht. There is a wide concrete public slipway which is free of charge to use, this is suitable for all sizes of road trailable boat at nearly all tide states.  Only at very low tide the concrete does not quite reach the water but launching is still possible with light craft.  Approaching Mount Batten down Lawrence Road, the slipway is down a side road with the westernmost of the two big seaplane hangers immediately on your right and the Water-Sports Centre to your left. Free car and trailer parking is on the opposite (south) side of Lawrence Road. For larger craft there is a choice of swinging visitors’ moorings run by Cattedown Harbour Commissioners, tel. 01752 665934, or marina berths in the Plymouth Yacht Haven, tel. 01752404231. The visitors moorings have orange buoys and are about 200m downstream from the sailing center. Out in the river there is also a moored pontoon for visiting craft to tie alongside but you would need to use a tender to get ashore from this pontoon.      For sailing you have a choice of sheltered water in the river Plym just off the slipway, or Plymouth sound which is a stretch of open water about a mile and a half across, or the wide open sea beyond the breakwater.