fergie_mac66
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Can tell you that lights are hard to to distinguish at night from a small boat too many street lights! Spent the night on skitter sands as a result
Humber charts
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Bobobolinsky
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Nicholsons guide No.6 Nottingham, York and the North East
Covers Witham, Trent and lots of watering holes
Covers Witham, Trent and lots of watering holes
Yantlet
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AntarcticPilot
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While Visitmyharbpur is a brilliant resource, I doubt it includes the local charts of the Humber which are ESSENTIAL for safe navigation of the Humber - the channel changes rapidly; potentially major changes can happen in a single spring tide.
Bellamica
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Humber Mud
Sorry mate didn't mean to put you off, I live on the Humber and sail most weekends. You simply must sail on the Humber just treat it the same as all muddy estuaries and enjoy
Sorry mate didn't mean to put you off, I live on the Humber and sail most weekends. You simply must sail on the Humber just treat it the same as all muddy estuaries and enjoy
dylanwinter
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don't want to die
having listened carefully to the advice I have received on these boards I would like to say that I have decided that sailing is entirely too dangerous and difficult for an under-resourced sailor like me
I now realise that I have been lucky to have got this far in such a small boat when any fule kno that you have to be well equipped with good lights, chartplotters and radar before taking to the sea.
The slug is staying in Wells until I have get my courage back while I save up for either a bigger boat or a trailer and landrover with which to finish the journey
Dylan
having listened carefully to the advice I have received on these boards I would like to say that I have decided that sailing is entirely too dangerous and difficult for an under-resourced sailor like me
I now realise that I have been lucky to have got this far in such a small boat when any fule kno that you have to be well equipped with good lights, chartplotters and radar before taking to the sea.
The slug is staying in Wells until I have get my courage back while I save up for either a bigger boat or a trailer and landrover with which to finish the journey
Dylan
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Yantlet
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Really!!!!!
dylanwinter
Active member
Naaa
although having missed the Tuesday tide and weather window for getting to Boston I am fighting shorter days and worse weather for the right window to make the trip
I did buy a license for the Witham and booked the lock
I am only allowed to buy one license per year
so it looks really unlikely that I will be able to get up to the Humber before March now
which is a shame
The slug is currently on the pontoons at Wells but will be moved to a mooring up Sluice Creek on Sunday
Bumma
Dylan
although having missed the Tuesday tide and weather window for getting to Boston I am fighting shorter days and worse weather for the right window to make the trip
I did buy a license for the Witham and booked the lock
I am only allowed to buy one license per year
so it looks really unlikely that I will be able to get up to the Humber before March now
which is a shame
The slug is currently on the pontoons at Wells but will be moved to a mooring up Sluice Creek on Sunday
Bumma
Dylan
Yantlet
Member
How expensive to hire a trailer or flat deck truck to get from Wells to Boston?
dylanwinter
Active member
dunno
although I have doen the trip there and back twice - to put the boat on a trailer would feel like cheating
one of the reasons I like sailing is that not everything is entirely under your own control
They have a saying "wells will only let you go when it is good and ready"
and I can think of worse places to overwinter the boat
Dylan
although I have doen the trip there and back twice - to put the boat on a trailer would feel like cheating
one of the reasons I like sailing is that not everything is entirely under your own control
They have a saying "wells will only let you go when it is good and ready"
and I can think of worse places to overwinter the boat
Dylan
Yantlet
Member
Consultation with the birds Dylan now that must ease the pain.
