Redesign the coast!

[LittleSister]

The thread about loss of harbours and the potential for new ones reminds me of the game Libby Purves says (in 'One Summer's Grace') her family used to play: of imagining 'improvements' to the coast - a handy new island here, a sheltering promontory there, etc. The one I remember is an inlet/harbour along the lines of Salcombe positioned on the end of the Lizard.

Where would you put yours?

 

[Searush]

Does Svarty Bardvlast know what you are planning? Have you sought planning permission from the Vogons?

 

[KenMcCulloch]

Does Svarty Bardvlast know what you are planning? Have you sought planning permission from the Vogons?

Any fule kno it is the Magarathean Planning Council that you need planning consent (coastal landforms) from. I think Slarty would have found Norfolk a bit dull, he was famous for his interest in all the crinkly bits and fjords.

 

[snooks]

If we could turn the UK upside down and some how flip it so the west is still in the west, just for the clear water, it would be perfect Scotland would have a summer and the Solent gets the midges!

 

[Wansworth]

The Belgians used to and might well do so still;edit a weather forcast issued to the pilots.It was the known world as seen from Belgium,most odd there was the british isles sort of in a most perculiar position,The bloody Belgians...

 

[LittleSister]

If we could turn the UK upside down and some how flip it so the west is still in the west, just for the clear water, it would be perfect Scotland would have a summer and the Solent gets the midges!

Would save having to seal off the Solent both ends! ;-) (Lights blue touch paper and retires!)

 

[Seajet]

I'd vote for some deep, clear or blue ( instead of brown ) water off the East Coast, and the oft-mooted link through Chesil beach to avoid Portland Bill, coupled with a decent deep water port with shelter, at Lyme Regis.

The section of coast East of Chichester to Ramsgate could well do with at least two Dartmouth type inlets too, both as useful safe ports and in an effort to make it less incredibly boring !

 

[Wansworth]

I would definately ask for a few headlands with good anchourages and maybe ,if its not too much,a couple of islands......off Portugese coast.

 

[Ru88ell]

The RYA practice navigation charts would be a start - a couple of islands to the SE of Dartmouth, and the channel made narrower.

Moving Birmingham nearer to the coast would also be a major benefit for me.

 

[Ex-SolentBoy]

The thread about loss of harbours and the potential for new ones reminds me of the game Libby Purves says (in 'One Summer's Grace') her family used to play: of imagining 'improvements' to the coast - a handy new island here, a sheltering promontory there, etc. The one I remember is an inlet/harbour along the lines of Salcombe positioned on the end of the Lizard.

Where would you put yours?

Something so you didn't have to go all around Portland Bill. Perhaps a nice canal near Weymouth.

 

[Habebty]

Campaign for real sand

Convert all the mud of Suffolk and Essex into sand a la Wells Next the Sea.....or move Wells Next the Sea to about say Great Yarmouth? (having nuked Great Yarmouth first of course)

 

[snowleopard]

In the fullness of time as sea levels rise the Thames Estuary will reach to Oxford, You'll be able to sail around Mendip Island and anchor off the Chiltern archipelago. The Weald will become the new Solent and the shallow Norfolk & Suffolk seas will be a popular cruising ground.

 

[Ru88ell]

Sounds promising for those of us in the Birmingham Navy

In the fullness of time as sea levels rise the Thames Estuary will reach to Oxford, You'll be able to sail around Mendip Island and anchor off the Chiltern archipelago. The Weald will become the new Solent and the shallow Norfolk & Suffolk seas will be a popular cruising ground.

 

[jac]

Rotate the country through 90 degrees.

That puts Scotland down where Cornwall is which should improve the weather. The new north coast could stay shallow but add in a few more navigable rivers accessible at every state of the tide.

Bristol channel to be less muddy, more rias to add more all tide destinations. Oh and add a nice new channel island about 1/2 way across the channel to make it more convenient for the duty free.

 

[Blueboatman]

What about putting in a request to Slarty for a big 'ol space lever instead? To tweak the earths axis every week or so, that way instead of moving the mountain,( so to speak) we can make the nice weather, winds, and otherwise inclement anchorages all come to you, at timely and notifiable intervals. With no charge of course. Call it environmental socialism, could even be a grant available from the EU for that one too.

 

[prv]

Somewhere a bit more tenable than Ventnor on the bottom of the IOW might be nice.

From a personal point of view, sometimes I'd like to chop out most of Southampton Water and stitch the two ends back together, so that the Itchen comes out just above the Hamble and I can get out into the Solent without spending hours tacking down the bloody thing.

Actually, swinging the wind round so that Southampton Water is always a beam reach would do the same job. Southwesterly or northeasterly as appropriate to my plans at that moment, obviously

Pete

 

[DanTribe]

What about some nice sandy islands shaped like palm trees or a map of the world?
Also an airport in the middle of the Thames estuary would be handy.
I believe plans are available.

 

[Signed Out]

Can we have some deeper water in Morecambe Bay please? I guess that'll require moving those pesky hills to the norths somewhere though.

As for this-

Also an airport in the middle of the Thames estuary would be handy.
I believe plans are available.

Funny how this doesn't cause the spewing of bile that comes with protecting the planet and it's fauna...

 

[Whiskey Bravo]

Moving Birmingham nearer to the coast would also be a major benefit for me.

Putting Birmingham UNDER the sea would be a huge improvement

 

[Ru88ell]

Putting Birmingham UNDER the sea would be a huge improvement

Mmmmm. That would wipe out most of the country. Mind you, we'll all be OK 'cause we have boats.