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| Ride to Exeter Quay and back | 2013-10-07 | Light winds on the way to the Quay and a head wind on the way back. New walking boots at Framers Friend. Wearing out the soles of walking boots every years must mean we are walking the dog too much.
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Exeter Quay
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| Up river sail | 2014-08-16 | A very pleasant up river sail as far as Topsham Sailing Club. Between F2 and F4 in the estuary but died away to very little when going up the estuary. With the tide having turned, we didn't get much furtehr than TSC.
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Topsham Quay
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| Malpas and St Clement | 2015-09-21 | A shortish walk round Malpas and St Clement. Found a good canoe launching slipway just south of Truro at Sunny Corner Quay. Seafood platter for lunch at The Heron in Malpas was good.
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Sunny Corner Quay
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| Sunny Corner Quay and the Tresillian River | 2015-09-23 | From the small Sunny Corner Quay on the edge of Truro round to the Tresillian River on the Fal Estuary.
Not too far today as there was a keen wind to be paddled against on the way back down the Tresillian.
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Sunny Corner Quay
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| St Helier to St Quay Portrieux | 2017-05-31 | After a light wind start, a lovely sail down from St Helier, Jersey to St Quay Portrieux on the Brittany coast. Sailed under cruising chute for most of the way. St Quay has the huge advantage of being an "all tide" port (i.e. no need to wait for there to be enough water over a marina cill).
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St Quay Portrieux
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| St Quay to Ile De Brehat | 2017-06-02 | Up from St Quay-Portreaux to Ile de Brehat. The Ile de Brehat is a small island on a rocky shore. Somewhat similar to Sark (no cars and a very small population like Sark but no cliffs).
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St Quay Portrieux
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| Hartland Quay | 2017-09-20 | A short walk to dinner from Stoke Barton Campsite on Hartland Point.
Hartland Point is a scary place if you think about sailing near it in the wind or fog and the granite "teeth" of the rocks only enhance this.
The Hartland Quay Hotel was a really nice pub doing good food.
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Hartland Quay
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| 2017 miles cycled in 2017 | 2017-12-02 | This track reaches my target of cycling 2017 miles in 2017!
Was meant to be a gentle ride to Lutzys for lunch but a torn wall on the side of Liz's tyre meant that we had to abandon and get a new tyre.
Then into Exeter Quay a little later reaching the 2017 mile mark somewhere near the Turf Locks.
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Exeter Quay
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| St Davids and back | 2018-11-05 | Into Exeter St Davids with Liz to pick up some train tickets. Coffee on the Quay on the way back (where police divers were searching the river for a missing person).
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Quay
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| Exeter and back | 2019-01-12 | Into Exeter and back with Liz. Coffee at Bar Venezia and then some birthday shopping at the quay cellars.
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Quay
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| Topsham cycle ride | 2020-03-09 | Round to Darts Farm. Stopped at Topsham Quay to see who was working on their boat and for coffee and a hot cross bun.
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Topsham Quay
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| Boat fettling in Topsham | 2020-03-16 | Round to Topsham to help Derek H put sails and stuff back on his boat after the winter.
Derek went up the mast - far braver than me.
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Topsham Quay
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| Launching Thalmia | 2021-03-30 | With Derek H as his Fulmar was launched from Topsham Quay on the highest tides of the year.
A lovely day so on out to sea. A bit of wind for some sailing. Lunch anchored at Sandy Bay where a couple of small dolphins came out to play.
Then some drifting waiting for enough rise of tide to come back in.
Plenty of sand / mud bank changes over the winter.
The port hand buoys in the swashway had breakign waves. The clearance coming up to buoy 3 was just 30 centimetres below the keel.
Then nudged sand banks at buoy 21 and just before SYC
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Topsham Quay
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| Thalmia launch | 2022-04-02 | Helping with the launch of Derek H's Thalmia from Topsham Quay.
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Topsham Quay
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| Helford Paddling | 2023-05-18 | A quick dip into Frenchman's Creek and then up to near Tremayne Quay for a coffee stop.
The first bit of the track is on land to measure the distance we dragged the kayak back up from Helford Passage to the campervan. Quite hard work but do-able. The kayak launching fee from Helford Passage was £2 which we thought was fair (and the more expensive ice cream was very nice too).
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Tremayne Quay
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| Helford Kayaking | 2023-09-10 | A lovely paddle on the Helford. Via FranchMan's Creek then up to Tremayne Quay for lunch (and a VHF message relay for a broken down dory). Then back via Port Navas.
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Tremayne Quay
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