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harbour coverageHarbours: Each harbour has full sailing directions, free charts, and photo galleries. All mooring options are covered, including: prices, local facilities, provisioning, launching places, pubs and dining. Plus 7 day weather and tides.   Interactivity   Logged in visitors can leave comments and information.

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Marine Business Directory: Our Directory lists almost 4000 marine businesses, search by area, harbour, category, or any mixture of these.  Access from the individual harbour pages or browse all  The Business Directory
 
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Coastal Sailing Directions:
Written for big ship mariners, this lengthy and detailed coverage also makes essential reading for small craft passagemakers. Coastal charts and NP tidal flow atlases are includedWales and North West England, Bristol ChannelChannel West, Scilly Isles to the SolentSolentChannel East, (North Foreland to The Solent)North Kent, Swale and MedwayThames and EstuaryEast Coast (Great Yarmouth to R.Roach)North East England (St Abbs Head to the Wash)





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For basic data on harbours we do not cover, we recommend trying ports-and-harbours  (www.ports.org.uk) which gives contact details and photos covering 700 UK locations.


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Featured Harbour show all

Amble (Warkworth Harbour)

North East England

Amble, sometimes known by its other name Warkworth Harbour, is a small town that developed on the northern edges of the Northumberland coalfield. It's main purpose was exporting locally mined coal, a trade that declined after the war and dried up completely in the 60s. It's an attractive place for the sailor with Coquet Island just offshore, good coastal scenery and the historic Warkworth close by.  The Pan Bush shallows in the approach mean the visiting yachtsman or motorboater needs to take care.

It is nowadays host to a small fishing fleet and a sizeable number of pleasure craft based at the Marina or on drying moorings.

For the small boat navigator the harbour is easy to identify from seawards because of the above-mentioned island, but this can cause it's own the navigational hazards as can the shallow patch Pan Bush lurking more or less in the harbour approach. In strong onshore conditions or heavy swell seas break over Pan Bush and in the approaches to the harbour. In these conditions small craft need to keep well clear. ... read more

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