40+ photos tagged "Salcombe"

Salcombe's BIG Problem...

So visiting yachts were down by 28% last year and Harbour Master Ian Gibson is "alarmed"....not sure why he is or why he would expect anything else when he introduces new policies such as charging for Whitestrand overnight rather than concentrating on the real issues such as; lack of facilities, nowhere to buy supplies ashore, nowhere to moor your boat very easily, increasingly less places to buy chandlery, overpriced shops and poor restaurants.

Supposedly the Harbour Board are going to introduce showers and WI-FI, just like they were supposedly going to do last year and the year before! It's not rocket science I don't see what the problem is.

If you are a visiting yachts person and come ashore dying for a decent coffee, your first port of call would probably be the Salcombe Coffee Company only to realise that it should have been the bank! Why they think they can charge more than Starbucks or Cafe Nero in Central London is beyond me. 2 Years ago they put their prices up 25p for a Grande Latte and the cups actually got smaller. If that isn't pure greed then what is? Also, don't expect any smiles or joviality form the owner, the miserable sod!

Your second thought is probably where can we eat tonight, only to find out that just about all Salcombe's restaurants were fully booked for August by June! So then you are left with the Kings Arm's, a lovely pub inside but a dive outside (minus the new balcony) with utterly stupid rules like you can only get pizza before 7pm, the rest of the menu is off limits...what about kids? Oh hang on there is Salcombe's new premier restaurant the Oyster Shack where you can get a seafood platter for £80 a head...the same price as the taster menu at one of Ramseys Michelin starred London restaurants.

If you want to stock up on supplies for the rest of your trip forget it, unless you want to go to Kingsbridge as there ins't anywhere to buy anything! If you need petrol you can forget that too unless you want to pay £8 a gallon at the fuel barge!

Salcombe is hard if not impossible to beat as an idyllic seaside town, but is quickly becoming a no go area for yachts people who can just go a few miles around the coast to Dartmouth for a far nicer experience.

But hey as long as the Harbour Board are getting their overnight mooring charges for Whitestrand and Salcombe traders can get people to pay their hugely inflated prices who cares, right!?

The UK's best 2 Holiday homes? Both in Salcombe!

These 2 properties are quite incredible....

The first is a new build called "Underbecks" named as such due to it's position below "Overbecks". This probably has the best position in Salcombe for views.

The second is "Beach House Quay" a pretty amazing house too! This is the house you can quite often see Michael Parkinson sat outside during town regatta week.

Both will cost you c£7k for town regatta week and both sleep 12.

Underbecks has much nicer interior and a far fresher feel to it, Beach House Quay seems a bit dark and cluttered. The one massive plus that Beach Quay House has over Underbecks is the evening sun!!! Underbecks and Salcombe in general both suffer form no sun after about 4pm. So no nice evenings on the terrace in the fading sun, more like a chilly evening huddled around the BBQ! Still you could always get your binoculars out and have a jealous look down the estuary at the folks in Beach Quay House with their G&T's and sunshine!!

YOU CHOOSE!

Oyster Shack (Salcombe) Rowers Make Good Progress.

5 endurance athletes are attempting to break the "trans-at" record, the Oyster Shack Ocean Challenger , yes you guessed it, they are being sponsored by the Oyster Shack, Salcombe, are currently about 500 miles into their row.

The Oyster Shack Ocean Challenger must make landfall in the Caribbean by 20:30 on Sunday 27th January 2008 to break the record.

Fingers crossed!

Keep up to date with their progress here.