ECA Early May Bank Holiday Rally to Hamble & Solent

Saturday 01 May HW Portsmouth 01:52 BST (4.7m) 14:16 BST (4.6m)
We are now bound for Mercury Marina (tel: 02380 455 994) which is upstream of Hamble village and the Port Hamble Marina. It is slightly less convenient for walking into Hamble village than the two marinas downstream but we are booked into the Waters Edge Restaurant in the marina itself. All other facilities are as you would expect at an MDL marina. Announce yourselves as an ECA boat and you should get a 10% discount!
Drinks and nibbles from 18:00 on Clarabel - look for the ECA Rally Flag.
Sunday 02 May HW Portsmouth 02:33 BST (4.5m) 15:04 BST (4.4m)
Our venue for Sunday is the Island Harbour Marina (tel: 01983 539 994) just up stream of the Folly Inn on the Medina River, IoW. A departure from Mercury at about 15:00 or later will give you the benefit of the ebb all the way to Cowes Roads but you will have to then eat some tide going up the Medina. So perhaps the morning affords a chance to walk part of the Hamble Way, or just enjoy a lie-in!
At the Island Harbour we recommend that those with deep drafts and time pressures to get over the EYH sill on Monday go onto the visitors pontoons at the Folly Inn, while the motor and shallow draft boats go into the marina. (For entrance details see www.island-harbour.co.uk/harbour_entry.asp).
Those of us on the pontoons can take our tenders up to the marina entrance in order to join those inside for a BBQ – bring something to cook and drink!
Monday 03 May HW Portsmouth 03:15 BST (4.3m) 15:48 BST (4.2m)
Return to our home ports – if you’re heading for EYH don’t forget to allow for time to get back down the Medina against the flood.
  Bev and Sue Dickens,
Clairabel
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Mob: 07932 752 697 or 07984 573 787

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Applications by 29th April.
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Bev & Sue Dickens, whose address is in the Year Book.




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