Free anchorages with facilites - East Coast.

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About 1/2 a mile to hook to the sea wall for your dinghy. You could pick up one of the club moorings for a while.

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Just my two penneth !

I think we should help him. My only thought is that we should not encourage people to pick up moorings. Fine if they hook up and don't leave the boat but a real nuisance otherwise.
 
i'm glad people are ignoring the suggestion that he should 'so it unaided'......

He's not being mollycoddled, he's being supported and encouraged.... The ECF has always proved itself to be about providing support when needed, and long may it continue......

Go for it Nathan, and ignore the knockers.... (fnarrr!)
 
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How is this bloke going to grow up and gain experience if you all mollycoddle him?

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Now we all know where he's likely to be, we can board his vessel in the dead of night with our plastimo safety knives held in our teeth. Steal whatever biscuits he might be hoarding, and disappear into the night with a cry of "HAR HAR NATHAN ME LAD!" Before the American Navy can get a bead on us!

Should toughen him up for all the pirates he's likely to meet.

Hope that helps

Paul
 
I took Nathan for a drive yesterday morning to pick some bits and bobs up - he is putting another battery in to add to his total capacity for when his panels aren't up for it or when he is away from shorepower. The plan was that he was going to order a charge controller (his main problem) on the web and have it delivered to Bradwell. I will hopefully be over to see him again tonight. I can't help with info on anchorages or facilities, but I for one will do everyhting I can to help this guy. He is a very nice chap, doing it on a shoe-string and I suspect, doing something that we all would rather like to do ourselves. He isn't the "sort" to be mollycoddled. Those that would, wouldn't take on what he has.

The very best of British to him.
 
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If you make your way into the Norfolk Broads (is there a mast up route through Lowestoft?) you could find plenty of places to stop for free and plenty of pubs! Not worked it fully through - maybe someone with better Broads knowledge could advise.

BTW I am noting down all these free places to stop so please keep mollycoddling me! /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

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I really want to stay around here for another month, exploring places, but I've got to get a move on really. That said, my old man could use a break, so I had planned if possible, to get on to the Broads and invite him down for a few days fishing and cruising. To be honest, I reckon he'll only last 24 hours without a TV to watch corrie on, but I thought I'd give it a go at least /forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif

If anybody knows a mast up route in there, I'd love to hear it. I was reading the ECP (the shock, ill prepared Nathan has a pilot book! :P ) but I can't make out the method of getting in there via lowestoft. It seems quite laborious.

Then, after speaking to Alan the other night, I think I've decided to do a couple of hops up to Wells, then wait for a weather window to do a two day sail past the Humber and on to civilisation once more. Well, population at least, I hear it's not ever so civil up north /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif
 
Nobody has said anything to change my mind.

Advice is fine. Of course, all cruising sailors appreciate a heads up on what lies ahead. But this is developing into something different.

Nathan has sent me a PM defending his strategy - sailing skint around the UK and suggsted that I would need the cushion of several thousands of pounds in my pocket.

Well, yes I would. This is 2009. Nobody can sail 'skint'. Everything costs money. Without funding, sooner or later (sooner in this case) you will rely on other peoples charity.

It is at this point that I lose all respect for the venture.
 
fair enough.... go ahead and lose your respect.

It would surely be far better for Nathan to be hanging around outside the local corner shop with a plastic bottle of cider, 20 Bensons, and wondering where to get his next fix from... rather than wasting his life doing something interesting and adventurous.

And actually..... I think Nathan is proving that you can sail skint.... he's just doing it by building up a network of new friends and supporters, rather than have a big wadge of cash in the bank.....

Good luck to him I say. Yes, this is 2009.... and thank god you can still do what the hell you like in this country.

And finally..... its a shame that this has to come to the ECF, as its generally a nice happy supportive place.
 
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I think I've decided to do a couple of hops up to Wells, then wait for a weather window to do a two day sail past the Humber and on to civilisation once more. Well, population at least, I hear it's not ever so civil up north /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif

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Sounds as good a plan as any, The Wash/Humber is a good place for spending some time and doing some exploring. If you want to get round the country it'd be better to get "up north"!

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Might be in Wells myself again soon, and will def be heading northwards before too long....
 
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And finally..... its a shame that this has to come to the ECF, as its generally a nice happy supportive place.

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Oh, Hush My Mouth. Didn't realise you were the proprietor of this Forum.

So much for freedom of speech and opinion.
 
He is not, but this is a happy gentle place, unlike other areas on this site and he speaks for the majority of us

Please do not be the one to start the rot /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif
 
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Oh, Hush My Mouth. Didn't realise you were the proprietor of this Forum.

So much for freedom of speech and opinion.

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So you can express your opinion but Neil cannot express an opinion if it is counter to yours?
 
Oi! There is civilisation up the Humber.
Your welcome to visit.
Past the bridge, 5 miles on your right. You will need a chart.

Trev
 
Humber chart will be made available when Nathan reaches Wells
Charts on loan from one skint boater to another so no reason they can't be loaned to yet another skint boater, is there Ken ?
If the idea is that nobody should go sailing without a wad full of cash then some of us are totally buggered.
 
Enough of the Fred Rift I suspect. If it was not for the time and encouragement given freely, few of us would be where we are now. I for one owe a great debt of gratitude to those who have helped, cajoled even rollocked when needed, it is not charity I regard it as repaying debts.

Since his first post on the forums, it is clear Nathan has put up with a lot to get where he is now and many of us will follow in our own way, long may we have the freedom to do so. I hope to be out and about at the W/e, if I can assist call up on 16.
 
Hello Nathan,

I am based in Lowestoft and I see from your post that you are coming to the broads.

It is quite straight forward but there are a couple of obsticles in your way. Lowestoft bridge for one.
When you are about quarter mile off the entrance, call Lowestoft on vhf14. There are fixed times for non commercial bridge lifts but there is a waiting pontoon just in side the trawl dock which is on your stbd side. Once through the bridge carry on up to the top of lake Lothing where there is a railway swing bridge,road bridge and a set of locks. Peter the harbour master at Oulton Broad operates the locks and he will co-ordinate your passage through. You are then into Oulton Broad and fresh water. From here you can get up as far as Beccles or Norwich without taking your mast down, you need to check your air draft as there is a fixed bridge at Haddiscoe.

You can also get into the River system through Yarmouth but the harbour operators dont like small pleasure craft, in fact I don't think they like any one too much!.
With a fixed mast you will not be able to access the real Norfolk Broads as there are too many fixed low bridges, but going in through Lowestoft is good and there is plenty of fishing. Give us a wave as you go past Haven Marina, you'll not miss our boat. Try and get a copy of Hamiltons, you can buy one from the chandlery in Oulton Broad.
Good luck
 
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Nathan has sent me a PM defending his strategy - sailing skint around the UK and suggsted that I would need the cushion of several thousands of pounds in my pocket.

Well, yes I would. This is 2009. Nobody can sail 'skint'. Everything costs money. Without funding, sooner or later (sooner in this case) you will rely on other peoples charity.

It is at this point that I lose all respect for the venture.

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I find your post extremely sad.

When I first got involved in this forum, I needed some help and help came by the bucket load, well cruising chute snuffer load in fact. A chap who I didnt know at the time let me walk away with several £'00 pounds worth of kit, to borrow. After I used it, I returned it. I don't know Nathan well, but I have loaned him kit, and I know it will come back.

A forumite's boat sank recently on its mooring. I couldn't make it but plenty people could, and did, to do their best to help out, to clean up, to salvage, to help a ........ friend.

Advice and help is sought often on the forum, and given freely by those that can. Without a single penny changing hands. With many a beer being drunk when together. It is called friendship.

Nathan is doing his trip on a shoestring and just look at the level of support and encouragement he is receiving, from new ............... friends. He sells kit to buy new kit and knows he will have to stop at sometime to get a job to charge up the coffers. That is the reality.

But I have to agree. You go ahead and lose your respect.
 
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