How to get to Newtown Creek - Boat Club Trafalgar

Learn how to safely navigate to Newtown Creek from Portsmouth Harbour with Boat Club Trafalgar.
This guided boat trip, led by our RYA Instructor Chris Moody, aimed to give our Boat Club Trafalgar members more confidence out on the water whilst showing them how to navigate to a part of the Solent which they hadn’t explored before.
Step-by-Step instructions:
1. Exit Portsmouth Harbour and head to Spitbank Fort
2. Head to North Sturbridge buoy, at a heading of 240 degrees
3. Head to Norris buoy, at a heading of 280 degrees
4. Travel past Cowes breakwater and head to Gurnard North Cardinal
5. Head to Newtown Creek at a heading of 240 degrees, keeping Gurnard Ledge and Salt Mead on your port side
6. Enter Newtown Creek by lining up the Y-shape and the circle to create your transit line
Useful information:
• The speed limit in Portsmouth Harbour is 10 knots
• There are plenty of mooring buoys in Newtown Creek
• The Boat Club Trafalgar boats featured in this video are Aphrodite (Finnmaster T7 Day Cruiser), Sunna (Ballistic 7.8M RIB) and Thea (Ballistic 6.5M RIB). You can find out more about our fleet of boats here: www.boatclubtrafalgar.com/flee...
For more information about Boat Club Trafalgar, our membership plans and how the club works, please contact Steve on 02392 706 599 or [e-mail].
Read about our other suggested day trips within the Solent here: www.boatclubtrafalgar.com/dayt...
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Thank you for posting a well edited video. I have a query, you use instruct to align the plotter to North (a line of longitude) and read a "compass heading" of 280, you use similar terminology a couple more times through the video. Would it not be more accurate terminology to say "read your Track" or even more accurately, note your "true track"? You do not read headings from a chart, nor are they correct for compass. I'm aware that power vessels are affected less by tide and wind than sailing vessels so track and heading are often less spread, but this still doesn't account for Variation? Was this an error of terminology or have I missed something in the fundamentals? Safe travels.