Sailingsaves
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No fair !
Is it Mersea Quarters? Is that the packing shed?
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Is it Mersea Quarters? Is that the packing shed?
John_Silver
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Hmmm...finger trouble posting some pics. Going to try a fresh reply!
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John_Silver
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Happy memories, of that feeling of release at being back on the water, after lockdown:
Frayed Knot
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Approaching Orford Haven last Saturday - we hove to for a while...
Chae_73
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Did you go through the same hailstorm / squall that we did?
Blew through just as we had entered the Deben river mouth, hail was so intense it was quite hard to see.
Around 16:00 last Saturday...
Blew through just as we had entered the Deben river mouth, hail was so intense it was quite hard to see.
Around 16:00 last Saturday...
Chae_73
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Saturday 10.10.20, approaching the Deben from the south, shorty before the black clouds assembled
Frayed Knot
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Yes, horrible wasn’t it? That’s why we hove to; we waited for the worst to pass before we went in as the vis was so bad. On the plus side, we had a mini snowball fight with the accumulated hailstones ?
Major_Clanger
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LittleSister
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Well off the East Coast - actually the Gulf of Finland - but I thought it might be appreciated here anyway:
Aerial Photographer of the Year 2020
Aerial Photographer of the Year 2020
Aquaboy
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The summer seems so long ago.........
Frayed Knot
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A couple of seasonal ones from way back...
CalicoJack
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On the Medway earlier this year.
CalicoJack
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Can’t get the pics to load!
Concerto
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Concerto
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Some photos taken today whilst sailing from Chatham to Southend and back.
East end of Cookham Reach
Running along Long Reach with my bow wave off the stern
Looking over the marshes near Stangate Creek
Grain Fort bathed in sunshine
Looking towards Sheerness from Thames Sea Reach
Brian Jone's Westerly Tempest Bootlegger
Concerto taken by Brian Jones as she starts beating back up the Medway
The setting sun looking up Long Reach.
It was a geat sail. It took about 6½ hours as it was a run down the Medway with plenty of gybes, but with reefed main and genoa as the wind was up to 19 knots over the deck behind the beam. With the log fouled I watched the speed over the ground and went as high as 7.6 knots with some tide with me.
Crossing the Thames was with the wind about 60 degrees off the port bow, so a fast point of sail and generally 6 to 7 knots going cross tide. The return crossing was with the wind about on the beam and similar speeds.
Entering the Medway turned the sail into a beat home with 15 to 21 knots over the deck and sailing at about 5.8 to 6.2 knots . After about 3 miles the wind started dropping so I unreefed both sails and the wind kept dropping the further up the river I sailed.
East end of Cookham Reach
Running along Long Reach with my bow wave off the stern
Looking over the marshes near Stangate Creek
Grain Fort bathed in sunshine
Looking towards Sheerness from Thames Sea Reach
Brian Jone's Westerly Tempest Bootlegger
Concerto taken by Brian Jones as she starts beating back up the Medway
The setting sun looking up Long Reach.
It was a geat sail. It took about 6½ hours as it was a run down the Medway with plenty of gybes, but with reefed main and genoa as the wind was up to 19 knots over the deck behind the beam. With the log fouled I watched the speed over the ground and went as high as 7.6 knots with some tide with me.
Crossing the Thames was with the wind about 60 degrees off the port bow, so a fast point of sail and generally 6 to 7 knots going cross tide. The return crossing was with the wind about on the beam and similar speeds.
Entering the Medway turned the sail into a beat home with 15 to 21 knots over the deck and sailing at about 5.8 to 6.2 knots . After about 3 miles the wind started dropping so I unreefed both sails and the wind kept dropping the further up the river I sailed.
PaulRainbow
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Bull Sand Fort 16th Oct 07:30
LONG_KEELER
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Doesn't look too cold either .
I still have Petunias and climbing roses flowering . I'm going to carry on sailing until the last bloom is gone.
johnalison
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Talking of fog, a couple from the archive.
The Bench Head in the '90s, from print film
and somewhere off the Frisians '13
The Bench Head in the '90s, from print film
and somewhere off the Frisians '13
BabySharkDooDooDooDooDoo
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I think that first picture might be Thirstlet Spit rather than Bench Head
johnalison
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I had second thoughts after posting, because we were on our way back from Brightlingsea with the club and wouldn't have passed the Bench Head, so I'm sure you are right. I was voted leader of the pack because I had Decca.
