nigelm
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The good ship Micaralee will be departing fambridge around 08:00 tomorrow all being well , just myself & first mate , the XO is doing housework, probably go back to Byh after show and home sat .
Advice please on watching Clacton airshow from the boat
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Bongo
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Hope to go..past years used spare small Bruce on short chain and long webbing reel..must be the stickiest mud on the planet..perhaps this is irresponsible 'cos boats have been damaged by people up tide dragging onto them..
Struck by the noise and apparent effort by the Euro fighter to stay in the air makes the spitfire look at home, in its element.
Struck by the noise and apparent effort by the Euro fighter to stay in the air makes the spitfire look at home, in its element.
Tammany
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Well there were more boats out their today than I've ever seen. Watched it from the shore and the missus is looking like a lobster lol. Lovely calm seas for you lot out their though.
rudolph_hart
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We anchored there @ 11.00 & there were about 30 boats. Later I reckon there was over 100.
Brilliant show, especially the Red Arrows.
Spoiled only by the mob of tattoed slaphead f**kwits from St Osyth/Brightlingsea on their wetbikes who played 'catch-me-in-the restricted-zone-if-you-can' games with the 2 police boats & tore through the anchored boats at speed. It's pity that they can't be prevented from breeding :livid::livid:
Habebty
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Was a good turn out. Anchored next to Full Circle and Nigelm. Typhoon was indeed very noisy and fast. Nice to see the Vampires and Mig. But my favourites were the Spitfires and B25. Exclusion zone seemed a lot futher out than before but didn't matter because there were still some low passes and noisy turns above the boats.
nigelm
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We enjoyed the show , although leaving at 3:30 meant we saw the euro fighter on the move , was very loud , just about 3.5hrs saw us back in Byh tho ......a slip on the pontoon nearly saw me in the drink between pontoon and boat while mooring , was defo a close one ?
MikeBz
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I thought the exclusion zone was way bigger than previously, and less low altitude action especially directly overhead. I wonder if things have been clamped down since Shoreham. Still a damned good show and a perfect day for it.
Habebty
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Yes, shame about those knobs. Got a lot of spray in the cockpit from one idiot.
Vamoose
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Cracking display again this year, the sun shone, the wallet was flat. The Red Arrows displayed for over 20 minutes, and were as always perfection, great to see the Vampires , Mig, Spitfires B17 and the Mitchell. As well as others. We all put our ear defenders on when the Typhoon lit the afterburners....
Great show .. Well done Clacton, I hope it brought you lots of visitors spending lots of money in the town
Great show .. Well done Clacton, I hope it brought you lots of visitors spending lots of money in the town
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Vamoose
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Tammany
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I said to the missus those jetskis will be making a few people irate, why were they out there buzzing around boats. Think I'd been tempted to throw a bucket and chuckit at them as they went by lol
Burnham Bob
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In the end we couldn't make it die to family commitments. Maybe next year the Typhoon can use the jetskis for target practice?
Watchful - the CHA launch - patrols the Crouch but the Romford Navy often launch from St Lawrence and I wonder who theoretically should enforce speed limits and monitor behaviour?
Watchful - the CHA launch - patrols the Crouch but the Romford Navy often launch from St Lawrence and I wonder who theoretically should enforce speed limits and monitor behaviour?
philiphurst
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I was just as irritated as others by the behaviour of the clowns on their jet-skis. I suspect that they were not doing anything illegal in tearing through the anchorage but their loutish behaviour is unacceptable. I would gladly have shot a couple of them but prefer your idea of the Typhoon having a pop at them.
The Romford Navy are generally a pain in the neck as we all know. Some do launch from St Lawrence but the watersports club enforce their rules on the members and do not tolerate breaches. (I have no connection with the club). Many of the trouble makers launch at Steeple Bay and wreak havoc wherever they choose. The Blackwater river bailiff has a performance jet ski and is tasked with dealing with the idiots but I doubt one man on one machine will make much of an impact. In conversation, he has said that photographic evidence would me most helpful. His email address is: rivers@maldon.gov.uk
rudolph_hart
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Totally agree about the Romford Navy. However, these clowns definitely came from the direction of Point Clear/St. Osyth, around six or so of them, in line abreast (to make them appear more threatening?)
The Brightlingsea Harbour Authority used to have a fast launch up until last year, which rigorously patrolled the area inside the yellow buoys in the Colne. No sign of it this year (budget?) & as a result I've even seen PWCs at speed in Pyefleet Creek.
I've sent an email to the Management Team of the Clacton Air Show, advising them of the problem (probably already know from the police launch crews) & suggesting a 200 meter 'PWC-exclued' zone outside the buoyed-off area.
Vamoose
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Although........ As it was calm we rafted up with another yacht. Just as we got settled, a large gin palace zoomed through the moored yachts at speed, causing us and the yacht we were rafted up with to have a "Spreader Fight"... Oh how we laughed (not)
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philiphurst
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That's exactly where I thought they'd come from but didn't mention it in case i was making a false accusation. Pretty certain they didn't come from Steeple Bay as most of that lot probably wouldn't know which direction to take to get to Clacton. Also, they're pre-occupied with making life a misery for those in Lawling Creek these days.
One of these clowns gave me a really good laugh a couple of years ago. He'd been tearing around in the Colne making a general nuisance of himself to the point that the police vessel was giving chase. I don't think the idiot saw the blue lights, just the opportunity for a race. Towards Colchester. There's only one wat that was going to end!
UncleAlbert
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What was also annoying is that the police did nothing, even though chasing the same PWC off the exclusion zone more than once.
I did let fly with some well chosen expletives as the mostly fat tattooed morons came close but nothing got heard by the numpties over the sound of the totally uninterested kids and families who were on the triple rafted up day motorboats who anchored near us (using what looked like clothes line). I am sure they would have been happier being on the beach rather than watching an airshow and annoying me.
And finally why is that a professional sailor/fisherman in a substantial fishing boat thinks that it is alright to motor down the exclusion zone, did the thought not occur to him that these bright orange buoys are there for a reason and there is a flotilla of boats outside of them, not to mentions a number of low flying aircraft buzzing around.
The world seems to have an increase of wazzocks, (and so many of them are near to me most of the time)
Ohhhhh I feel better now.
Uncle Albert
I did let fly with some well chosen expletives as the mostly fat tattooed morons came close but nothing got heard by the numpties over the sound of the totally uninterested kids and families who were on the triple rafted up day motorboats who anchored near us (using what looked like clothes line). I am sure they would have been happier being on the beach rather than watching an airshow and annoying me.
And finally why is that a professional sailor/fisherman in a substantial fishing boat thinks that it is alright to motor down the exclusion zone, did the thought not occur to him that these bright orange buoys are there for a reason and there is a flotilla of boats outside of them, not to mentions a number of low flying aircraft buzzing around.
The world seems to have an increase of wazzocks, (and so many of them are near to me most of the time)
Ohhhhh I feel better now.
Uncle Albert
philiphurst
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Well said.
Mandarin331
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We went up on Thursday, only to return to the Colne early when it was called off. Couldn't have asked for a better day on Friday though, even a sparkling sail up to Harwich afterwards. We anchored early (1030) just down from the pier, SB Melissa anchored outside us a little later, and it felt like the Typhoon was using our foredeck as a target in the dive it was so close!
Yes the jet skis were a pain and generally I can't recall the police boats having to chase nearly as many 'encroachers' before (of all types, yachts, mobos, jet-skis) but we did see them taking photos of many of the jet-skis so maybe some action will follow. We were impressed that a fully crewed RIB could catch up a Jet ski, the problem though is that these guys don't care, motoring up the Colne at 5knts we had one guy doing a slalom twenty feet ahead of us; in the entrance to Brightlingsea we saw them using the 4 knot buoys as slalom markers! The Harbour does what it can but I believe the overall policing is down to Colchester Council, who prosecuted a few in 2014. It seems to me that the best bet is to restrict the launching at Point Clear.
Yes the jet skis were a pain and generally I can't recall the police boats having to chase nearly as many 'encroachers' before (of all types, yachts, mobos, jet-skis) but we did see them taking photos of many of the jet-skis so maybe some action will follow. We were impressed that a fully crewed RIB could catch up a Jet ski, the problem though is that these guys don't care, motoring up the Colne at 5knts we had one guy doing a slalom twenty feet ahead of us; in the entrance to Brightlingsea we saw them using the 4 knot buoys as slalom markers! The Harbour does what it can but I believe the overall policing is down to Colchester Council, who prosecuted a few in 2014. It seems to me that the best bet is to restrict the launching at Point Clear.
PetiteFleur
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We saw it on Friday, did not realise it was on until we saw all the anchored boats and guessed there was an exclusion zone by the large red buoys. Motor sailed slowly through the anchored boats, quite a show, might go next year and anchor if fine. There must have been 3-400 boats anchored and yes, the jet skis were a PITA.
