Just enough tide for the lovely Wootton Creek

There is indeed and plenty of water for a spring tide lunch stop. Either drop the hook in the basin or tie up to the wall of the pub terrace if shallow draft. The main road along the island stops you going any further. Did that many years ago during one of the YM Classic Boat rallies.

From memory a bit more up market food than the RVYC.
 
daverebbettes said:
Ha ha. It does sound a bit gibberish. I was meaning, our course was West with a bit of South in it. Sort of 100-110. Ish. Approx. Thereabouts. :)
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You still have me a bit confusled there, Dave. Surely if you are sailing from Beaulieu towards Wooton the course would be "a touch south of EAST" which is what 100-110ish is! :confused:

As always again a very enjoyable video which I very much enjoyed - keep 'em coming. :encouragement:
 
Giblets said:
You still have me a bit confusled there, Dave. Surely if you are sailing from Beaulieu towards Wooton the course would be "a touch south of EAST" which is what 100-110ish is! :confused:

As always again a very enjoyable video which I very much enjoyed - keep 'em coming. :encouragement:
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Ahh! I see what I did there Giblets. What a numpty. A bit South of East it should have been. If the other Dave spots this glaring error I am in trouble.
 
daverebbettes said:
Ahh! I see what I did there Giblets. What a numpty. A bit South of East it should have been. If the other Dave spots this glaring error I am in trouble.
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Are you per chance silverdave with the cool shades? If so, love the way you manage to everything with a coffee cup in hand, but you may have o/d'd on caffeine ;)

Great video and good drone footage :encouragement: Cool to see places we've past a thousand times, but never stopped.
 
dom said:
Are you per chance silverdave with the cool shades? If so, love the way you manage to everything with a coffee cup in hand, but you may have o/d'd on caffeine ;)

Great video and good drone footage :encouragement: Cool to see places we've past a thousand times, but never stopped.
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No I'm the younger, good looking one. I might just talk to SilverDave (I may start calling him that) in the next video that someone has spotted something he does well. Thanks for the ammunition.
 
Twisterowner said:
The mud is very soft up the creek so you can remain upright until sufficient water returns.
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Yup - made a great hurricane hole near the pub many years ago (on an old then Maurice Griffiths triple keeler) when Force 9 then Force 11 forecast and possibly real for 3 days. We anchored so 6 hours on the mud and 6 afloat so we could sleep well whenever it was on the mud. I do remember the Zodiac dinghy flying like a kite and flipping over and over until we got it under control but didn't want to deflate it as we wanted a possible way to get ashore or at least a platform on the mud.

But anchored there many times before after checking afloat times coincided with drinking time and dinghied to the pub.
 
Agree entirely-lovely place to visit. On another tack I want to fit a delphi 296 type filter assembly and I notice that they are available from marine suppliers at anywhere between £35 - £49 for the complete unit. However, from an automotive parts supplier the same think is only £22. Is there any reason why not to source from the auto supplier? Is it the identical product? Sorry to hijack this thread but could not get to the new thread start!!
 
Stemar said:
That's what the instructor on my Day Skipper course said when we tied up on the RVYC pontoon. The boat got to 45 degrees before the tide started to come back in.
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The clue is in my words "up the creek"! And I speak from personal experience. The mud up by the bridge is perfectly capable of welcoming a 1.5m draft boat such as mine.

It must have been a nail-biting time for your instructor :D
 
RupertW said:
Yup - made a great hurricane hole near the pub many years ago (on an old then Maurice Griffiths triple keeler) when Force 9 then Force 11 forecast and possibly real for 3 days. We anchored so 6 hours on the mud and 6 afloat so we could sleep well whenever it was on the mud. I do remember the Zodiac dinghy flying like a kite and flipping over and over until we got it under control but didn't want to deflate it as we wanted a possible way to get ashore or at least a platform on the mud.

But anchored there many times before after checking afloat times coincided with drinking time and dinghied to the pub.
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Very wise. Difficult to be driven aground in a gale when you are already aground.
 
Twisterowner said:
The clue is in my words "up the creek"! And I speak from personal experience. The mud up by the bridge is perfectly capable of welcoming a 1.5m draft boat such as mine.

It must have been a nail-biting time for your instructor :D
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Yep. As the mast went down, the stress went up, peaking as the water came back in, as he was worried that the boat would fill rather than come up.

We ignorant students, OTOH, were highly amused, at least until the bar closed and we were waiting for the boat to be level enough to get to bed
 
daverebbettes said:
A warm welcome at Royal Victoria on a warm April day. Just marvellous...

https://youtu.be/xkoB1-g5uu0

Not enough water to get further upstream but I believe there is a pub that can be reached on a spring tide. Is that right?
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I am not sure that you would have time to have a meal at the pub. Last time I was near the top of the channel at Springs the place seemed to have silted up quite a bit and we had to exit fairly soon after arriving to avoid running aground.
 
mainsail1 said:
I am not sure that you would have time to have a meal at the pub. Last time I was near the top of the channel at Springs the place seemed to have silted up quite a bit and we had to exit fairly soon after arriving to avoid running aground.
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I grew up on a boat yard on Wootton Creek, 1970s, and have memories of rowing a flat bottomed punt out over the mud to stranded sailors more than once.

But, yes, I think it has silted. East Quay, at the head of the creek by the bridge, used to be a emergency landing in IOW resilience plan - I’m talking many years ago, perhaps 30, and I guess QHM, as it was under their jurisdiction took an interest in making sure the Mill Pond was emptied often enough to scour through. I don’t recall dredging during my childhood.

Went in about five years ago on a lifting keel Southerly, bit tight at the top even with 2’6” draft.
 
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singlehanded said:
Agree entirely-lovely place to visit. On another tack I want to fit a delphi 296 type filter assembly and I notice that they are available from marine suppliers at anywhere between £35 - £49 for the complete unit. However, from an automotive parts supplier the same think is only £22. Is there any reason why not to source from the auto supplier? Is it the identical product? Sorry to hijack this thread but could not get to the new thread start!!
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It is the identical thing, the automotive people sell more of them so they get the advantage of buying in bulk. The only reason for buying from the marine supplier is you have a generous and noble heart, a large wallet and wish to contribute to their beer fund.
 
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