Pilot the Isle of Wight: The Needles to St Catherine’s Point

Navigational tips and beauty spots around the south-west coast of the Isle of Wight.

The Needs to St Catherines Point

In this leg we travel from the thunderous collapse of Cleopatra’s Needle and the Varvassi’s ensnaring boilers, down the back of the Wight to the guilty secret behind Britain’s second oldest lighthouse.


Click on the pages below to see how to pilot each part of the journey:

  1. 1. Introduction
  2. 2. The Needles
  3. 3. Rounding the Needles
  4. 4. Scratchell's Bay
  5. 5. Scratchell's Bay to Freshwater
  6. 6. Sir Robert Holmes
  7. 7. Frenchman's Hole
  8. 8. Watcombe Bay
  9. 9. War Knight
  10. 10. Freshwater Bay
  11. 11. Back of the Wight
  12. 12. Sirenia
  13. 13. Landslips
  14. 14. St Catherine's Point
  15. 15. Pepper Pot
  16. 16. Rocken End
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