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Can anybody recommend a campsite with a slipway to launch a boat?

Our friends have a inflatable speed boat which they like to take on holiday but they have trouble finding sites with its own slipway to launch it.

The problem is they only have a launching trailor which can't be towed on the roads so they cannot drive to the  beach.

We are looking around devon or cornwall but any area would do

Thanks

Desperate friend fed up with searching

We go down to Hope Cove, South Devon each year. There are two sites about a mile up the valley, Bolbery Down and Kerrigeen, and people seem to take such boats down the road on similar trailers and launch them from the old lifeboat slip way. Can get launching tickets for the day or week etc.

How do they get the boat to the site without a road worthy trailer?

Quote: Originally posted by sacman on 08/11/2005

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We go down to Hope Cove, South Devon each year. There are two sites about a mile up the valley, Bolbery Down and Kerrigeen, and people seem to take such boats down the road on similar trailers and launch them from the old lifeboat slip way. Can get launching tickets for the day or week etc.

How do they get the boat to the site without a road worthy trailer?

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Quote: Originally posted by sacman on 08/11/2005

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We go down to Hope Cove, South Devon each year. There are two sites about a mile up the valley, Bolbery Down and Kerrigeen, and people seem to take such boats down the road on similar trailers and launch them from the old lifeboat slip way. Can get launching tickets for the day or week etc.

How do they get the boat to the site without a road worthy trailer?

 

Thanks these sites look very nice but i will have to see if it suits my friend. I still dont no weather he can take his trailor down that road. If its like a country lane with not much traffic he might get away with it.

Thanks again 

They have a caravan so along with the boot they get it all in, including the engine. they inflate it when they get on site and it stays inflated untill they go home.

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Lake district, Windermere.

There are several but they only take caravans.Whitecross Bay and Fallbarrow Park are two of them.

Quote: Originally posted by driach on 13/11/2005

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Ladram bay in Devon has a launch site for boats - also an excellent site, lovely situation with indoor pool as well. Has own website.

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Quote: Originally posted by sunseekers on 14/11/2005

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Lake district, Windermere.

There are several but they only take caravans.Whitecross Bay and Fallbarrow Park are two of them.

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Didn't they impose limits on small boats recently?  I think they'd done a blanket ban on speeds - no doubt someone will post the full details

Jenny