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Useful Information for sailing visitors
Berthing on the River Hamble is available at the several Marinas (contactable on VHF Ch.80), boatyards and yacht clubs (where advance booking is advisable), and at the Harbour Authority’s pontoon and pile visitors’ berths. Short stay berths for the landing or embarking of crew, passengers or stores are also available at Warsash and Hamble Quay. Tide permitting, the Quay at Hamble may also be used.
Landing by dinghy is also possible at the public hards at Bursledon, Swanwick and Hamble foreshore and Warsash. The popular and historic Jolly Sailor public house at Bursledon has a jetty for the use of customers arriving by smaller vessels.
For full details of visitor facilities at Port Hamble Marina,
Hamble Point Marina or Mercury Yacht Harbour, all on the west bank, please
visit www.mdlmarinas.co.uk or 023 8045
7155.
For Swanwick Marina, on the east bank, visit www.moody.co.uk
or 01489 885000.
Useful contacts, free literature, information and websites
'Guide to the River Hamble' leaflet plus the
rules and bye laws governing the River Hamble. ' 01489
576387 or call into the Hamble Harbour Master's office in Shore Road,
Warsash. www.hants.gov.uk/hambleharbour
'Bait Collectors Code' leaflet, a voluntary code of conduct
for line fishing on the River Hamble is also available from the Harbour
Master's Office as above.
Hamble River taxi or Hamble-Warsash ferry '
023 8045 4512, 07720 438402 or VHF channel 77
Royal Yachting Association (RYA) courses, clubs and schools
' 0845 345 0400 or visit www.rya.org.uk.
Bramble's cricket match in the Solent, '
Royal Southern Yacht Club Secretary, George Robinson,
on 023 8045 0301.
Southampton Water Activities Centre 023 8022 5525, info@swac.co.uk
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