Only 4m of water??

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Article in latest YM by a Solent-based sailor about a trip to the Baltic and back. Keeps going on about lack of water especially in Holland - says various towns are "...delightful but one has to get used to 4m of water or less."
Four metres? Blimey where I sail four metres is luxury and I get vertigo if the sounder reads over five. Crossing the Channel we're so high up I need oxygen.
 
Yeah - these south coasters just don't get it?!!

Test sailing a big X Yacht in Southhampton water a couple of years back with a friend, the brokers skipper was having kittens when the depth was 8m under the keel.

The chart showed a gradually shallowing shore, in East Coast terms you could have have made a coffee then tacked.....Solent skipper was in complete meltdown!
 
xyachtdave said:
Yeah - these south coasters just don't get it?!!

Test sailing a big X Yacht in Southhampton water a couple of years back with a friend, the brokers skipper was having kittens when the depth was 8m under the keel.

The chart showed a gradually shallowing shore, in East Coast terms you could have have made a coffee then tacked.....Solent skipper was in complete meltdown!
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I am told the scout camp on Mersea @ Equinoctial springs is "quite nice" :o
 
We met Miranda in 2011 when she and Edward were on the way to the Baltic for the first time. Actually, she had introduced herself and wanted to pick our brains a bit as we were homeward bound. They were great fun and we heard much about her rather wild life. She did seem a bit innocent about local conditions, though she seems to have sailed around much of the world. Her boat, not Edward's, he's a posh landscape designer, is an interesting Holman & Pye design and she bought it after it had been one of those abandoned in the 1979 Fastnet.
 
johnalison said:
We met Miranda in 2011 when she and Edward were on the way to the Baltic for the first time. Actually, she had introduced herself and wanted to pick our brains a bit as we were homeward bound. They were great fun and we heard much about her rather wild life. She did seem a bit innocent about local conditions, though she seems to have sailed around much of the world. Her boat, not Edward's, he's a posh landscape designer, is an interesting Holman & Pye design and she bought it after it had been one of those abandoned in the 1979 Fastnet.
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Is that Miranda Delmar Morgan
 
That's the one. Never met her but funnily enough passed her boat 'Polar Bear' in the Solent as dusk was falling when we were on our home delivery trip from Lymington in our present boat.
 
I was really disappointed with the article. She didn't give any useful impression of sailing in Denmark and the Baltic, except moaning about the Danish weather (which was much better than the UK, this year, and last) and the cost of booze (quite cheap compared to Norway or Sweden). Most of the piece was about their route to get there and back and a bit more about the bad weather. As far as depth is concerned, she chose some shallow passages where deeper ones are possible and not much longer - eg Borkum to Nordeney, where the route outside the islands is fine, through the canals past Leeuwarden (again, you can sail outside the islands or through the Waddensea).
 
Hi,

Miranda and family used to live in the village near ours in sunny Suffolk , so knows a think or two about east coast mud and nil depth

Rob
 
I also met Miranda, Edward and their daughter last last year in northern Spain after crossing Biscay. It was funny, I found an old copy of YM on the boat and was reading one of her write-ups (the one where she cut her leg) and I was looking at the photos thinking "I'm sure I know that person and that boat". Wracking my brains to think where I knew them from. Then realised Polar Bear was berthed next to us and they were all in the cockpit having a cuppa! Ah - THAT'S where I'd seen them before! :D

Anyway, back to OP - it's one of my great enjoyments to take solent based friends out from the east coast. Such fun!
 
ChattingLil said:
......Anyway, back to OP - it's one of my great enjoyments to take solent based friends out from the east coast. Such fun!
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A while ago we did a 'Me and My Boat' with YM's Duncan Wells on board, in and around the Swale. He was great to have aboard and runs a sailing school down Solent way. He went very quiet when I was cutting across the (very) shallows up the east side of Sheppey, and even more so next day when we did some (literally) touch and go tacking along the shallowest part of the Swale not long after LW.
Well, we'd behave differently if it was rocks underneath, wouldn't we...:eek:
 
Being a recent East Coat initiate after years sailing in the South Coast, South West etc, having less that 10m under the keel is a constant worry!
 
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