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I saw a mermaid on my beam and she said Wow to me
She had big red cans and pealed her bells at me
Ding and Dong is what they said, and so I headed West
I held my course and went below, emerging in my vest.
 
I wouldn't bother going into Yarmouth, it is a busy commercial port with very high walls and it does not cater for pleasure craft, unless in emergency.

The chanel going North out of Lowestoft is well marked and straight forward, an early atart is good if tides permit. If you study the tides and can work them then the trip to Wells is OK. You should aim to arrive in daylight perhaps around 2 hours before high water. The tide will run against you 2 hours before high water (along the coast, east) and also means you need to watch your transit into the chanel. Once you are past the first couple of bouys it is a doddle. The tides are "funny" in the Wash as they do a sort of circular action.

Wells to Grimsby is the next trip I would do. You will get a good welcome at the sailing club in the fish dock. Normal entrance is on free flow around 2 hours each side of high water. They can lock you in at any state of tide but they can charge you £10 (was in September when I last went in). If you explain that you are single handed etc. they might not charge. At least one of the lock keepers has a boat and they are OK blokes. You can anchor just off the channel towards the beach, if you want to wait.

Thereafter Bridlington is a good day sail but you need to arrive with sufficient water so you can go against the wall. You will need to dry out and we used to bring a halyard to one of the rings on the quay just to make sure we didn't lay over as the bottom is not even in all places. Yes we were in a bilge keeler as well.
 
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I saw a mermaid on my beam and she said Wow to me
She had big red cans and pealed her bells at me
Ding and Dong is what they said, and so I headed West
I held my course and went below, emerging in my vest.

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hahahaha. I like it!

I saw a mermaid on my stern and she had no command
two balls up, so I had to stop, and offer her a hand.
I went away, salvage to pay, with promise to return
but when I came back, she was on the wrong tack, so I boarded her astern.
 
Look forward to plenty of pilotage notes on your next blog as I will be following you up the coast from ipswich to wells In a few weeks also singlehanded. Good sailing and keep those videos coming /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif /forums/images/graemlins/smirk.gif
Pete
 
Missed you this time around Nathan - after a mega smart paint job and lots of other work Santana will finally be launched tomorrow morning.

So - really looking forward to catching up with you here on your second lap! Keep putting the videos on utube - they are giving a lot of us a good deal of pleasure.

Good luck with the rest of the voyage - fair winds, safe harbours, and always a hand's breadth under your keel.
 
Hi Nathan - good progress - well done, give me a call when you're near Newcastle

Neil (Morgana) - what do you mean cold yet!? he isn't even "North" yet !.

Gary
 
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Hi Nathan - good progress - well done, give me a call when you're near Newcastle

Gary

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I was hoping to meet Nathan while he was puddle-jumping around my patch (The Wash), but lying in hospital in Gateshead after using a lawnmower to trim my toenails! /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif
Surgery today, remove some broken bone and stitch my (not so) big toe back together.....

Will try to buy him a pint somewhere along the way.
 
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I was hoping to meet Nathan while he was puddle-jumping around my patch (The Wash), but lying in hospital in Gateshead after using a lawnmower to trim my toenails! /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif
Surgery today, remove some broken bone and stitch my (not so) big toe back together.....

Will try to buy him a pint somewhere along the way.

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ouch!! I think it is you who deserves the pint! I hope it gets fixed soon, and all the best for your stitching stint.
 
Great going Nathan. You will soon be passing Lincolnshire, county of my birth. I spent a frustrated childhood not being able to sail on that difficult coast and don't suppose you will see much of it for the same reason. But Grimsby, as has already been pointed out, is a real possibility or ? Barrow Haven if you can afford the diversion further up the Humber. I wouldn't go to Hull.

Good luck with it whichever you decide to do. When is the next video appearing?

Michael
 
Dodgy songs about mermaids and now murmurings of a Kuducam ......... its all going South. Head North laddie, head North. Skip the dragons, beasties and vermin and aim for lands afar where accents are as strong as the beer, ships of the world are crafted and coal by the horse load is dug from gods own ground (ok, made the last 2 up) and where folk are as fine as they come in this land. Well, Gary is there /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif
 
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ouch!! I think it is you who deserves the pint! I hope it gets fixed soon, and all the best for your stitching stint.

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Just back from surgery, it hurts more now than when I did it, but being pumped full of morphine so dont really give a [--word removed--]!

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Will catch up with you somewhere along the way Nathan..... /forums/images/graemlins/smirk.gif
 
Fred Drift - Bridlington

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Thereafter Bridlington is a good day sail but you need to arrive with sufficient water so you can go against the wall. You will need to dry out and we used to bring a halyard to one of the rings on the quay just to make sure we didn't lay over as the bottom is not even in all places. Yes we were in a bilge keeler as well.

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Was in Bridlington last Sept. Got in early, along side the quay, mast rope, long lines etc. Calculated we should touch the bottom and stop falling around 22:00. Sat on deck facing the quay wall adjusting the lines and tightening the mast rope. At 01:00 we stoped falling, turned around to find we were surrounded by mud, fin keel had gone straight down and hull was in the mud. Took the mast rope off and went to bed, was nicely afloat agin by breakfast.
 
well done nathan

after wells have you considered pulling into the humber? there is a sailing club at the mouth of the Humber on the southern shore close to the Tower,the guys there give a warm welcome to the travelling yachtsman.

Wells as Mr cramp said is a doddle after the first two navigation bouys,if you need to anchor,stay away from the bouys and go further out into holkam bay.
 
Couldn't be more right about not anchoring near the Wells fairway bouy, I wish somebody had told me before I did it in a F5/6 waiting for the tide! Not a pleasant place to wait is putting it mildly..... /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif

I've stayed in Bridlington and been made welcome by the RYYC, cheap place to stay and yacht club facilities are very near.
So are lots of puibs, but enough said...... /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif

For an overnight stay, if you just need a break, tucked inside Spurn Head is handy. The channel is usually fairly busy with traffic on the way in and out.
 
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Nathan

What's the battery charging like now?

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Fantastically!... I'm on shorepower so Mr Sterling is doing the work /forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif

The Rutland does make a difference, although I can't give you figures. It nice to know there's a backup for cloudy days, and if I nail my batteries one day, if will, on a windy night, pump enough juice into them to be safe again the day after, but it won't fully charge them. Far from it.

As you only source of power, I'd say get a bigger one, but to supplement solar cells it's workable. I've been a week without shorepower and ran my laptop on the inverter most of the time. I lost the ability to do that on the penultimate day, after a bout of cloud.
 
Just caught up with this.

Well done Nathan!

Onwards and upwards now towards t' land o' flat caps, whippets & Tetleys.... Eee, it'll be reet grand.

cheers

John
 
Well done,

I guess that all the frustrations and bits not quite going right are part of the learning curve and the experience will stand you in good stead in the future.Patience and not too much of that and you will succeed

Waved as we passed you on your mooring at the Ferry last Sunday about midday

Rob,
 
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