Moonraker at Berry Head video!

Captain Bob Watson belaying for Moonraker HVS

Captain Bob Watson belaying for Moonraker HVS

Good Morning Climbing Clubbers

Have you ever used a boat as a belay? So here is a short film I made about fellow Climbers Club member and accomplished sailor, Captain Bob Watson, who had this long held dream to combine his two great passions of climbing and sailing to “belay from the boat” on one of the UK’s greatest HVS’s – Moonraker at The Old Redoubt, Berry Head near Brixham. For anyone who has not climbed the route, Moonraker is one of the great climbs of the South West with a stunning line, superb atmosphere, spectacular positions and steep, intimidating climbing on big holds.

In the words of the Captain himself, this ambition had “been in gestation for about 25 years to sail in, do the route, abseil down, back into the boat and then off we go”. And so this long planned “sailing meets climbing” escapade finally came to fruition last September when the stars aligned themselves, the weather forecast looked great, the bird ban had ceased, the light winds were blowing in the right direction for the boat and England lost at egg chasing in the Rugby World Cup. So my buddies and I found ourselves stood on St Mary’s Beach near Brixham on Saturday 26th September at 7.30 am ready to be whisked away by the Captain in his fantastic boat, the inimitable MS Erin…

Climbing Moonraker from Bob Watson's MS Erin

Climbing Moonraker from Bob Watson’s MS Erin

Anyway the entertainment was duly recorded so for anyone interested in viewing a short video featuring the lovely Erin, a bit of brain-melting exposure plus some aerial drone footage and of course to see if Cap’n Bob fulfilled his long held dream then this is the story of our day:

View video …

Cheers and happy climbing! 🙂

Dave Linnett

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