Where have you been?

[Cardiff Yacht Club]

As September starts, the days cool, evenings draw in, I thought it might be nice to try and draw a map of where club members have been this year.

I know of trips across to Ireland, the Scillies and pretty much every port in the Bristol channel, but let's try and find out the big picture of where everyone has been. My feelings are that it has been a very active cruising year this year at Cardiff Yacht Club.

Even if you've only managed a single trip to Watchet, or Portishead, let's have a look at where club members have been in total. I may even try and work out a total mileage sailed!

[ishtar]

Ishtar:

Oxwich, Milford Haven, Solva, Waterford.

[Matt]

Newport, Bristol, Portishead, Weston, Jackson Bay, around Flat Holm couple of times.

Matt

[ishtar]

Cheers, Matt. This is the kind of thing I thought:

[ishtar]

Maybe that would work better

Attachments:

[sheila]

Chart look good Martyn. When I clicked on enlarged image though I could not get back out of it to go back to message board.

Anyway, Alana has been to
Lydney
Portishead (Marina & YC)
Watermouth
Appledore
and of course to Scilly Isles via Appledore Padstow & St Ives ( I think).
I think that Bright Flyer has also been to the Scillies this year, as well as the South Coast, and I also recall someone else posting on the forum recently about their trip to the Scillies.

[Xanadu]

Xanadu has been to:

Watermouth Bay
Combe Martin Bay
Oxwich Bay (bit of a bay theme going on here!)
Portishead Marina
Watchet Marina
Newport & Uskmouth SC

Nice idea!

[Camelot]

This year Camelot has been to:-

Bangor!
Watchet
Portishead
Jackson's Bay
Watermouth Cove
Barry YC
Combe Martin
Lundy Island
Ilfracombe
Swansea
Oxwich
Weston Super Mare

but we didn't make it to Ireland as I'd hoped

[ishtar]

Brilliant. Keep em coming folks. I think I can do something with Google Maps.

[ishtar]

Does this work?


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[duncanhall]

Watchet,Appledore, Barry,Weston and up arround Flatholm many times


Duncan

Manana

[mike]

Hi Guys
Here's a few more for the map.
Swansea, Kilmore Quay, Dunmore east, Ballycotton, Kinsale.
Cheers Mike
Redeye.

[brian (Blue Bear)]

missed most of the sailing season so far but with the early summer start, we can add,
Watchet, Dunmore east, waterford, Port Eynon, Oxwich, Tenby, dale, Milford Haven, Nayland, Lundy, St Marys (scillies) Newlyn, falmouth, Penzance, Padstow, St ives. these are the places that have included stopping for one or More nights,

[Cardiff Yacht Club]

Hope you can see the chart. I've done all of the entries to date. I'll try and improve the display after the weekend (off sailing). The chart is fully clickable, you can drag and zoom in. If you click one of the destinations you can see who has been there. Looks impressive, and a great advert for the club!

[Camelot]

The map looks brilliant Martin.

Am I right in spotting that Vince's wallet has only been out once this year?

[ishtar]

Thanks, Huw, it has worked out better than I expected.

Vince's wallet may actually be up for the Tony Burris distance award this year. There are few wallets I know of that could make it to the Scillies single handed, and make it back again, all by itself.

[Matt]

Nice one Martin that looks great!

Matt

[clarinettist]

So far Alegria has visited:
Watchet
Oxwich (good for dolphins)
Tenby
Milford
Neyland
Dale
Skomer
Solva
Neyland(again)
Dale (again and I am never tying to that pontoon again!)
Neyland(again)
Milford(again)
Ilfracombe.

[sheila]

;D I will have to get a anchor for my wallet it is traveling around the world so fast it will have to be slowed down a bit of Bunting will be also good for the prize giving Vince

[larcingabout]

This summer we've sailed LARC from Totnes to Dartmouth, Dartmouth to Plymouth, Plymouth to Falmouth, Falmouth to Cardiff Bay. Since we've been back in Cardiff we've also managed a sail around Flatholm ;D

[allan]

Chausey has been to:-
Lydney,
Portishead,
Watchet,
Swansea,
Oxwich,
Watermouth,
Tenby,
Dale,
Milford,
Instow,
Appledoor,
St Ives,
Scillies,
Dunmore East,
Waterford.
I hope to add some more by the end of the year.
Allan

[Camelot]

Sept 5, 2010 22:29:27 GMT allan said:

Chausey has been to:-
Lydney,
Portishead,
Watchet,
Swansea,
Oxwich,
Watermouth,
Tenby,
Dale,
Milford,
Instow,
Appledoor,
St Ives,
Scillies,
Dunmore East,
Waterford.
I hope to add some more by the end of the year.
Allan

You missed Lundy Allan - I saw you there!

[allan]

Yes true, I completly forgot that trip! You can add:-
Combe Martin,
Ilfracombe,
Lundy.
Allan
PS, Also forgot Weston

[Xanadu]

Can now add Bristol for Xanadu - if motoring half way there and back counts. Coming back went from motoring with hardly any wind, put the spinnaker up, broached a couple of times, dropped the spinnaker and 20 mins later had to go back to motoring!

Agree with others, this is a great idea and very well executed - thanks Martin.

[allan]

Martin,
As Mike and others have said, this is a great idea. Is it possible to move the map to a closed thread so it is always at the top and easier to access? This thread could carry on for us to add future destinations.
Allan

[sheila]

I completely agree. In addition Martin, there are some announcements made on the message board, prior to date of happening that I feel "get lost" on the main page when others have updated posts in other threads within the same section. Would it be possible to keep some of these announcements on top? For example there is the notice about Tom Cunliffe's talk, and I also want to post a notice about Nick Jacksons inllustrated talk on 14th October, but don't want it to get lost among other messages.

[Deleted]

Hi Folks it looks like you have al been very busy.
Sequel has only been to watchet portishead weston and bristol but all good fun. also round the holmes a couple of times.
C U
Alan

[Cardiff Yacht Club]

Looking great, folks. Thanks everyone, and keep them coming.

Sticky post - actioned.

Sheila, I will do something about your request.

Admin

[spidercrab]

I think this is a great idea and a great use of current technology.

One extra thing that could become a useful resource and be fascinating to look at would be to set up a CYC Picasa account. Then anyone who has pictures taken at the destinations visited, could post them for all to see.

If you haven't seen this facility, it enables anyone to click on a destination (e.g. Dale) and then see all the pictures that have been loaded by CYC members. This could be made private for CYC members or public to anyone. As the location of the pictures is based on GPS information, then it is not restricted to named destinations. So those dolphins you saw and photographed off Sully Island could also be entered into the CYC map.

Gary

[Andy-High Spirits]

I'd like to join in, this season I have visited and stayed at Watchet, Minehead, Porlock, Combe Martin, Watermouth, Ilfracombe, Lundy, Swansea, Oxwich, Tenby, Dale, Solva, Kilmore Quay and Waterford. I've clocked about 1200 Nm since April and I'd like to put a few more on before the season closes.
Andy
High Spirits.