East Coast Circumnavigations

[LONG_KEELER]

Dungeness to Muckle Flugga?

Anyone done the Isle of Thanet ?

 

[Greemble]

As well as Suffolk and Norfolk...

Around Norfolk, perhaps. as long as a very shallow draft and portage is allowed - Something like a small inflatable or a kayak, maybe.

In at Lowestoft, though the lock and onto the River Waveney. Pass the weirs at Geldeston Locks (stop for a beer or two), Ellingham and Wainford Mills and mind the shallows from Bungay onward. Probably best to try after a week of heavy rain

Once passed Diss, it gets a bit reed-clogged but at Redgrave and Lopham Fen you'll have reached the source of the Waveney and the Little Ouse.

Now you can follow the Little Ouse to Thetford and onto Brandon Creek where it joins the Great Ouse out to Kings Lynn & the Wash.

 

[nortada]

Around Lindsey, Lincolnshire - The 3 Rivers Race (Humber, Trent, Fossdyke Roman Canal & Witham).

 

[Cantata]

Anyone done the Isle of Thanet ?

Years ago there was an annual round-Thanet dinghy race. It required a lot of lifting and carrying the boats!

 

[Kukri]

In 1922 my father sailed his RCC B class canoe (16ft x 3ft6ins, bronze centre plate) from Kingston on Thames to Cambridge. There was a short portage and one night when he had to sleep on board (he was 6ft 2ins!)

Here she is:



Not a circumnavigation but it shows that it may be possible to circumnavigate East Anglia as a whole.

 

[Aquaboy]

if portage is allowed, I don't think anyone's mentioned Orford island

(yep raining, can't be arsed to sail today!!)

 

[LONG_KEELER]

In 1922 my father sailed his RCC B class canoe (16ft x 3ft6ins, bronze centre plate) from Kingston on Thames to Cambridge. There was a short portage and one night when he had to sleep on board (he was 6ft 2ins!)

Here she is:



Not a circumnavigation but it shows that it may be possible to circumnavigate East Anglia as a whole.

That's one serious mainsail .

 

[Kukri]

That's one serious mainsail .

It reefed with a single line, and the jib was on a roller. She was built in 1896, so these ideas are not so new but needed better materials to work on bigger boats.

 

[LONG_KEELER]

It reefed with a single line, and the jib was on a roller. She was built in 1896, so these ideas are not so new but needed better materials to work on bigger boats.

Interesting boat.

It looks as if the main has full length battens.

 

[Triassic]

Well if portage is allowed that opens up some serious possibilities....

 

[nortada]

Well if portage is allowed that opens up some serious possibilities....

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Not with a 13 tonne boat

Never seen hills like that on the East Coast

 

[Triassic]

Never seen hills like that on the East Coast

That particular picture was taken in Austria after a month sailing Croatia. Now if you want to sail round islands that's the place to go!

 

[Concerto]

Well if portage is allowed that opens up some serious possibilities....

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Just out of interest, where are those steep sided hills on the East Coast?

 

[Triassic]

Just out of interest, where are those steep sided hills on the East Coast?

But the East Coast has other attractions......

 

[johnalison]

But the East Coast has other attractions......
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Pah. Who wants a sunset when you can have mud?

 

[Kukri]

Dawn, Mersea Quarters:

 

[LittleSister]

Dawn, Mersea Quarters:

All it needs is a bit of Photoshopping to add mountains, picturesque waterside cottages/pub/castle, and recolour the water blue.

 

[Kukri]

Ah, but then we would lose our lovely big sky! I have always felt uneasy amongst mountains- they shut the sky out!

 

[johnalison]

Ah, but then we would lose our lovely big sky! I have always felt uneasy amongst mountains- they shut the sky out!

A great improvement, surely:

 

[Kukri]

Terrific!

But why stop there?

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