Ilfracombe

Drying Marina in a run-down area of town. Worth missing.

Bude

Amazing lock in the middle of the beach. Accessible with 2-3 days notice at high water. Good along-side moorings once inside canal.

Possible to come into the lock at high and tie up to the walls if arriving when unmanned.

Port Isaac

Drying sandy harbour.

Padstow

Locked in marina. Not as busy as the web-site threatens. Doesn't take bookings but unlikely to be a problem in May. Friendly Harbour Master. Doom Bar challenging in quite calm conditions. Entrance well buoyed. Yellow buoys are not visitors moorings! Enter and leave near high water but should be OK to get in and out of the estuary above half-tide in calm conditions.

Boscastle

Tiny. Good for popping in for an ice cream. Not an overnight stop. Dangerous in bad weather.

We had amazing and unusual weather conditions when we visited, and I ended up taking a lot of pictures.

Appledore

Nowhere to go in. Possible to tie up against the wall and dry-out. Wall a bit rough.

Watchet

Watchet is a privately owned marina. The village is nice and the harbour front excellent. The chandlers is a café and there is a pub and a library. There is a boat museum up the hill and one of the notable origins of shanty songs came from here.

The harbour is only accessible about an hour either side of high water and when we visited had about 10 feet of mud making it almost closed. It was due to be dredged.

It looks a great place to stop.