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This page will feature useful info for small boat users. Launching points, safety at sea, where to fish etc. If you have a specific query use the feedback form on the home page, and we will reply to your email.
Small Boat Launch Sites
Click on the launch site for a description
1
- Minehead Harbour
– A steep concrete slipway with a slight bend, onto sand. Launch fee payable.
Launch and retrieve 2 hours either side of high-water. Visitors moorings
available. Harbour dries at low water. Loading steps at end of quay. Ladders
along quay wall. Freshwater available. Parking nearby. Summer Sundays can be
busy.
Minehead Slip
Blue Anchor Slip
2 - Watchet Harbour – A concrete slipway onto mud. Launch fee payable.
Launch and retrieve 2 hours either side of high-water. Loading steps at end of
west pier. Ladders along west pier wall. Car and trailer parking nearby. HARBOUR
ENTRANCE CAN BE DANGEROUS IN STRONG WESTERLY WINDS.
Watchet West slipway
3 - Watermouth Cove – Concrete slipway onto hard surface. Launch and
retrieve at any state of the tide. Launch fee payable. Plenty of parking for
cars and trailers. Moorings available.
Watermouth Cove
4- Ilfracombe Harbour
– Concrete slipway onto hard sand. Launch and retrieve 2.5 hours either side
of high-water. Very busy resort in the summer months making parking for cars and
trailers very difficult. The slipway is also used by the lifeboat. Be prepared
to clear the slipway in an emergency.
Ilfracombe Slipway
You have been warned !!
5 - Burnham-on Sea – Wooden slipway leading to concrete slip. NO
LAUNCH FEE. Launch and retrieve 2hours either side of high-water.
Caution 1 – Soft sand and mud either side of the slipway. It
is wise not to drive onto the sand/mud.
Caution 2 – Do your navigational homework if you are new to
this venue. It is easy to get caught-out here, especially on spring tides
coupled with northerly winds.
Burnham Slipway
6 -
Weston-super-Mare (Knightstone Harbour)
– A large wide concrete slipway onto a hard surface. NO LAUNCH FEE. Launch and
retrieve 2 hours either side of high-water. Car parking very difficult in the
summer months, but trailers can be left on the promenade next to the slipway.
Knightstone Slipway
7 –
Shirehampton Sailing Club
- Prior arrangement required . Small concrete/stone slipway. Spring tides
only, launch and retrieve 1.5 hours either side of high-water. Launch fee
payable. Cars and trailers kept in a secure compound.
8 –
Beachley – Concrete and stone slipway. NO LAUNCH FEE. Car
and trailer parking.
Caution – Do your navigational homework if you are new to this
venue. This site is very dangerous, especially on spring tides. There is a race
of 8 to 10 knots. Good local knowledge is required. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO LAUNCH
HERE IF YOU ARE A NOVICE OR OUT OF PRACTICE.
9 –
Portishead – NOT RECOMMENDED. This is a privately
operated slipway owned by the sailing club.
Note -
It can be used however, FOR EMERGENCIES ONLY,
(i.e.. Medical evacuation to ambulance etc), at any state of the tide.
10 –
Clevedon – NOT RECOMMENDED. This is a public
slipway used by the sailing club. The slipway is
steep, narrow and has a nasty near 90 degree bend on it about one third the way
down. If you are going to use it, smaller boats only. Launch and retrieve 2.5
hours either side of high-water. Parking is difficult especially in the
summer season when its almost covered with sunbathers (weather permitting).
Access to slip from road
90 degree to the Sea
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