CX54WEK
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Just to add there was no messing about with colours on that photo. That is exactly how it came off my phone.
A perfect day.
A perfect day.
Favourite anchorages on the East Coast
- Thread starter Otter
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Kukri
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OK, only been doing this for forty years but lets see...
Ore/Alde
There are two outstanding anchorages.
One, a contender for Best Anchorage on the Planet, if you can get there and if no other boat is there already, is at Iken Cliff at the top of the Alde; you can lie afloat and take the dinghy the final mile to the pub at the Maltings. There is one set of permanent mooorings and room for one other boat, but utterly lovely.
The other, much easier, is the Butley River above the ferry.
Cuckolds Point is OK but boring.
Deben
My home river. The Rocks is done to death but still nice. All the other good spots are wall to wall moorings, alas.
Orwell
Very tradtional - off the Shotley water tower just out of the channel. Maybe too nerve wracking for the beginner.
Pin Mill below the moorings; still nice, listen out for the nightingale in the woods. Everywhere else wall to wall moorings again.
Stour
Much better - Wrabness in a S'ly or Erwarton Ness in a N'ly
Walton Backwaters
Anywhere, but bonus points awarded for:
1. Kirby Creek past the oyster layings by Bridget Island (room for two boats)
2. The Dardanelles (room for one boat, careful with the swing at the turn of the tide, very Maurice Griffiths)
Colne
Pyefleet Creek, above the moorings and below the oyster layings. A good one.
Blackwater
Mersea Quarters
Bradwell off the end of the old training wall
er, that's it... but as a bonus, just beyond your range,
Osea Island off the Barnacle (nice)
Ore/Alde
There are two outstanding anchorages.
One, a contender for Best Anchorage on the Planet, if you can get there and if no other boat is there already, is at Iken Cliff at the top of the Alde; you can lie afloat and take the dinghy the final mile to the pub at the Maltings. There is one set of permanent mooorings and room for one other boat, but utterly lovely.
The other, much easier, is the Butley River above the ferry.
Cuckolds Point is OK but boring.
Deben
My home river. The Rocks is done to death but still nice. All the other good spots are wall to wall moorings, alas.
Orwell
Very tradtional - off the Shotley water tower just out of the channel. Maybe too nerve wracking for the beginner.
Pin Mill below the moorings; still nice, listen out for the nightingale in the woods. Everywhere else wall to wall moorings again.
Stour
Much better - Wrabness in a S'ly or Erwarton Ness in a N'ly
Walton Backwaters
Anywhere, but bonus points awarded for:
1. Kirby Creek past the oyster layings by Bridget Island (room for two boats)
2. The Dardanelles (room for one boat, careful with the swing at the turn of the tide, very Maurice Griffiths)
Colne
Pyefleet Creek, above the moorings and below the oyster layings. A good one.
Blackwater
Mersea Quarters
Bradwell off the end of the old training wall
er, that's it... but as a bonus, just beyond your range,
Osea Island off the Barnacle (nice)
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Otter
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That's reminded me, we managed Iken Cliff for a night without dragging, but that was in a cat so no worries if we dried out. With a long keeler how do you stop yourself swinging out of the Chanel then drying onto the mud?
sailorman
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there are a few "Holes" at Iken Cliff, you could always anchor fore & aft
wingdiver
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As I am off on holiday now for a week I will let you all into our little secret anchorage.
Its............................
Oh go on then but dont all turn up at once and ruin it.
Its Blakeney Bay.
Nothing but miles of golden beach, some razor clam shells and a colony of very inquisitive seals.
It that what we call Blakeney Pit off the old lifeboat hut?
Norfolk skies are renown for being nice and the sandy beaches from Blakeney westwards are great.