saab96
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Has anyone any experience of sailing this part of the coast? What are the rivers like, the harbours, the marinas and cruising the coast? Is there a helpful cruising guide for yachts?
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My remarks were meant to cover ONLY the area between the Wash and the Humber and the Humber and Scarborough/Bridlington, specifically the Holderness and Lincolnshire coasts, where there are NO refuges or harbours. As I mentioned, once past Whitby there are many possibilities, as you enumerate.AntarcticPilot is looking at it from a passage-making point of view, but there are a number of harbours and rivers which provide cruising grounds for local boats or the cruiser who is not in a hurry e.g. Humber (various places), Bridlington, Scarborough, Whitby, Staithes, Hartlepool, Seaham, Sunderland, Newcastle, Blyth, Amble,.
Most of these have tidal and other restrictions which require attention and care.
I am not aware of any cruising guide which covers the whole area. Some info on the individual places in Almanacs (e.g. Reeds) and VisitMy Harbour as AP mentions. If you are interested in any particular place the local yacht club may be able to help.
Dylan WInter's 'Keep Turning Left' videos provide useful and entertaining supplementary info and colour on many of these places. KTL 6: Humber to the Forth « Keep Turning Left
Duplicate thread in PBO merged into this one.
Yes a very useful book. Henry used to own the Sir William McCann (ex- City of Edinboro), a big Edwardian sailing trawler, gaff ketch rigged which I was lucky enough to crew on several times in the 1980's. He is quite a character and used to measure the circumference of the crews' heads with a tape measure, believing his own cranium to be unrivalled in diameter!Henry Irving's book, Forth Tyne Dogger, Blakeney point to St Abbs is available second hand , and could be just what you want.
I heard that he spent a lot of time dried out waiting for the tide to get into a lot of places. Fascinating insight into an interesting man.Yes a very useful book. Henry used to own the Sir William McCann (ex- City of Edinboro), a big Edwardian sailing trawler, gaff ketch rigged which I was lucky enough to crew on several times in the 1980's. He is quite a character and used to measure the circumference of the crews' heads with a tape measure, believing his own cranium to be unrivalled in diameter!
It is a very interesting coastline, with friendly and chatacterful harbours.