Moorings on the River Fowey

The River Fowey runs 40 kilometres through Cornwall to the sea at Fowey on the south coast. Its lower reaches form a deep, sheltered harbour between the town of Fowey and the village of Polruan, with Bodinnick, Golant and Mixtow further up. Larger craft can use only the last seven miles or so, and Tudor Bridge marks the tidal limit. The Lerryn is the largest of its tributaries.

Fowey Harbour Commissioners look after about 11 kilometres of the estuary and run both the leisure harbour and a working port whose main cargo is china clay. The entrance can be used in all weathers, though it is only about a cable wide at its narrowest and an onshore wind against the ebb makes it rough. Boats of shallow draught can go on up the river to Lostwithiel, about six miles inland, and the Lerryn dries to clean sand.

Moorings on the River Fowey are spread through the harbour, with many on the Polruan side, including pontoons at the entrance to Pont Pill. The commissioners' visitor buoys are marked in blue, and there is a dredged walk-ashore visitor pontoon in Mixtow Creek, overnight berths with shore power at Berrill's Yard and a one-hour pontoon at Albert Quay in Fowey. Further up, many of the moorings off Golant dry at low water.