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Can anyone assist me with advice tips ect on the above voyage

Pulse id An 18 Mtr cruising barge cruising speed of 8-10 knots 1 mtrs draught

Some on here must have don this trip

Hoping go spend a few months west coast Caledonian extra

Thx in advance
 
Done the trip .... but not in a 18M barge, which may be restricted on where you can get in ... assume you have some sort of serious range at least ...

Most harbours up the way are small, so please check with harbour offices about places to stay, unless you want to do the whole journey in one (perfectly feasible). And all entrances on that coastline can be a bit messy to get into in anything from NE to SE's ... so keep your eye on the weather forecast

Flambourgh head can become a bit messy, so stay in deeper water ... you could get in to Scarborough on high tide, if not next one up is Whitby... then Hartleypool and Newcastle ... After Newcastle, you're pretty exposed (you may get into Blyth) until you can seek shelter around Amble.. After Amble, you have natural shelter around Bamburgh and and anchorages at Lindisfarne. Not sure if you can do Berwick, but would have chosen Eyemouth as a potential harbour (watch the entrance here).... by with time you nip around the corner to Queesnferry (which I presume is your target).

Further north there are more limitations in respect to marinas and 24/7 access, but safe harbours in Montrose, Peterhead etc...

http://www.scottishcanals.co.uk/our...aters-updates/caledonian-canal-winter-closure
 
We did hartlepool to port Edgar a few years ago. You will be able to get into Bridlington Scarborough Whitby hartlepool Sunderland Tynemouth Amble & Eyemouth & Port Edgar there may be more but those are the ones i know of with facilities for pleasure boats obviously you would need to research each port's approaches with regards suitability in marginal weather
I think the longest stretch of coast without plenty of bolt holes is from Eyemouth to port Edgar as the ports approaching the fourth are all drying harbours so you may need to do that in one leg.from memory it's about 70 miles
 
What kind of barge?
18m aprox 60 ft with a 1m 3ft draft.
Sounds like some kind of canal or river barge. In which case the first question is it up to a trip along the north sea in October
or do you intend to wait for summer?
 
Uricanejack said:
What kind of barge?
18m aprox 60 ft with a 1m 3ft draft.
Sounds like some kind of canal or river barge. In which case the first question is it up to a trip along the north sea in October
or do you intend to wait for summer?
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Yea unfortunately your assumption is flawed

Impulse is a pure vee bottomed woulstanhole cruser yes 18 m a dyes 1mtr draught displacement hulls are like that?
She is sea capable and equiped.

Some sort of river barge is not usually ala me of 8-10 knots

Value is over £300,000
Just find your post a little arrogant

Sorry
 
Impulse said:
Hi
Can anyone assist me with advice tips ect on the above voyage

Pulse id An 18 Mtr cruising barge cruising speed of 8-10 knots 1 mtrs draught

Some on here must have don this trip

Hoping go spend a few months west coast Caledonian extra

Thx in advance
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We have one of this type in Port Edgar and looks a very comfortable vessel. Even has a mast and sails.

I suspect the OP s vessel is from this drawing board.


http://wolstenholmedesign.wordpress.com/portfolio/classic-power/cruising-barges/
 
Bilgediver said:
We have one of this type in Port Edgar and looks a very comfortable vessel. Even has a mast and sails.

I suspect the OP s vessel is from this drawing board.


http://wolstenholmedesign.wordpress.com/portfolio/classic-power/cruising-barges/
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Thx bilgediver;
you are absolutely right impulse is the third of this design to be commissioned in 2005 we have a shorter wheel house to the pic in your link but largely the same ship
Handles like a dream at sea and v comfortable as you say
Thx for you post
 
Any port with a trawler fleet will be big enough for your boat, so: Whitby, Scarborough, North Shields, Blyth, Eyemouth, Port Seaton (bits dry out), Port Edgar. North coast of Forth you will get into Anstruther, Pittenweem (just if you're good at tight turns), St Monans, Methil, Kirkcaldy, Burntisland.
 
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