Marinas in UK South Coast
The southern coast of the UK runs from Land’s End in Cornwall to around Ramsgate in Kent and is the country’s most popular yachting area with many good modern marinas making day sails along the channel or a hop over to France easy.
The English Channel is a narrow sea separating France and Great Britain. It is 180 km (112 mi) wide in the west where it meets the Atlantic Ocean and narrows to 34 km (21 mi) in the Dover Straits in the east where it links to the North Sea. Regular ferry services cross the Channel between many ports including Dover, Plymouth, and Portsmouth in Great Britain and Calais, Dunkerque, Boulogne-sur-Mer, and Dieppe in France. These ferry crossings along with the huge amount of cargo vessels transiting through the Channel make the Dover Straits one of the busiest shipping channels in the world with over 400 vessels monitored each day.
For more information on Traffic Seperation in the channel. Most marinas will also be able to offer advice.
The Channel Tunnel (a rail tunnel) opened in 1994 and can carry passengers, cars, and Freight
