New Marina on The Deben

[johnalison]

I suppose we’re all different but I thoroughly enjoy visiting The Crouch - there’s probably an element of nostalgia involved as I started sailing at Hullbridge in the early 70s & kept my first boats at Paglesham.
Other than summer weekends we find it a peaceful, relaxing area. There are always sheltered spots to anchor & enjoy the local wildlife: the wading birds and the plentiful seals in The Roach and its creeks. Early or late in the season it has a particularly wild, desolate beauty.

I think there can be something special about bleak places. I always found that visiting the Ore was more exciting than the Deben, which seemed almost too pretty. Dungeness has its own kind of beauty, as well as the exposed and rocky west coast of Sweden.

 

[shanemax]

If you give authority to certain people, especially the type of person who yearns to sit on some sort of committee and if then you give them a title woe betide what happens. You know it will go to their sad little heads, they will take their position to an extreme level of seriousness and they will be come as difficult as possible thinking up new rules on a possible daily basis. Thats life folks.

 

[shanemax]

That was in answer to the Waldringfield Fairways Committee...... the title its self send shivers down the spine with thoughts of a firing squad as their final appealed decision.

 

[PeterWright]

The one thing in favour of having a Fairways Committee is that it avoids the consequences of an estuary becoming a harbour like the Crouch and Roach, It would appear that the Crouch Harbour Authority, spend the majority of their income from the "Harbour Dues" levied on most things that floats down to and including paddle boards, on checking that owners of the floating things have paid their dues and are displaying a "plaque" to prove it. They do maintain the buoyage but, when the Crossrail spoil was to be dumped on Wallasea Island, qyite unecessarrily virtually doubled the umber of buoys downriver from the site wherethe mud came ashore, presumably at the expense of Crossrail. I don't suppose Crossrail have paid a penny more since the last barge load was discharged so now the cost of maintaining buoyage is way higher than it need be.

I have to say, I prefer the quaint old fashioned ways of a Fairways Committee to a Harbour Authority, although I accept that quaint ways do rely on getting the right people involved, as George was at Ramsholt.

I'm glad some folk don't like Waldringfield, helps to keep the numbers down.

Peter.

 

[shanemax]

The one thing in favour of having a Fairways Committee is that it avoids the consequences of an estuary becoming a harbour like the Crouch and Roach, It would appear that the Crouch Harbour Authority, spend the majority of their income from the "Harbour Dues" levied on most things that floats down to and including paddle boards, on checking that owners of the floating things have paid their dues and are displaying a "plaque" to prove it. They do maintain the buoyage but, when the Crossrail spoil was to be dumped on Wallasea Island, qyite unecessarrily virtually doubled the umber of buoys downriver from the site wherethe mud came ashore, presumably at the expense of Crossrail. I don't suppose Crossrail have paid a penny more since the last barge load was discharged so now the cost of maintaining buoyage is way higher than it need be.

I have to say, I prefer the quaint old fashioned ways of a Fairways Committee to a Harbour Authority, although I accept that quaint ways do rely on getting the right people involved, as George was at Ramsholt.

I'm glad some folk don't like Waldringfield, helps to keep the numbers down.

Peter.

How can anyone not like Waldringfield. It is a mini hive of activity. All types of boats going to and fro. dinghies, yachts, motor cruiser, kayaks, paddle boards etc and often some yacht scrubbing off on the posts. I usually anchor opposite the club as there is a big enough section of river with no moorings. It is also fun to watch the boats playing bumper cars avoiding each other as it is quite narrow on this part of the river. A lovely place to awake in the morning and then of course the piper.