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Planning on heading from Ipswich to Inverness next week, ambient wind does not look helpful so thought there might be a very useful sea breeze in this weather (which is forecast to hold). I'd like to stay well offshore if poss so wondered how far off the east coast the sea breeze might reach partic between the Wash and Forth.
Any thoughts?
 
It is not a subject that I have explored in detail but my impression of sea and land-breezes is that they extend about five miles, which I don't think comes under the heading of well-offshore.
 
Hi Jimi, my thoughts are that sea breezes and land breezes happen on this coast, but unpredictably. My instinct would be to follow the inshore commercial buoyage until Humber entrance is crossed. It will keep you clear of the windfarms and the sometimes dense crab potting areas. eg Cromer. There is anchorage both N and S of Flamboro Head if you need to sleep a foul tide stream. Thereafter you will find crab pots laid out to 60m depth, which can be a long way out! It could be a monotonous passage.
 
EdWingfield said:
Hi Jimi, my thoughts are that sea breezes and land breezes happen on this coast, but unpredictably. My instinct would be to follow the inshore commercial buoyage until Humber entrance is crossed. It will keep you clear of the windfarms and the sometimes dense crab potting areas. eg Cromer. There is anchorage both N and S of Flamboro Head if you need to sleep a foul tide stream. Thereafter you will find crab pots laid out to 60m depth, which can be a long way out! It could be a monotonous passage.
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Many thanks, Ed. Yes I think it will feel a long way and suspect it may require a diesel stop!
 
EdWingfield said:
Hi Jimi, my thoughts are that sea breezes and land breezes happen on this coast, but unpredictably. My instinct would be to follow the inshore commercial buoyage until Humber entrance is crossed. It will keep you clear of the windfarms and the sometimes dense crab potting areas. eg Cromer. There is anchorage both N and S of Flamboro Head if you need to sleep a foul tide stream. Thereafter you will find crab pots laid out to 60m depth, which can be a long way out! It could be a monotonous passage.
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And laid in profusion!! In fact, I found the darn things in my way nearly the whole way from Harwich to Aberdeen. (May be exaggerating a bit, but they are a day-long menace).

Sadly I had to motor/motor-sail quite a lot due to poor winds and can't remember any notable offshore/on-shore breezes (June 2015)
Are you overnighting in port(s) or going non-stop?
If the former then I found Scarborough (on entry, keep well in to the east wall of the harbour!) a good stop-over; Whitby ( entrance not good in heavy onshore swell/winds) interesting and useful; Blyth useful, with very interesting "club house"; Eyemouth, gloomy in poor weather but very helpful HM; Peterhead useful and friendly HM.
But the star was the Royal Tay Yacht Club at Broughty Ferry (Dundee). I was provided a free visitor mooring, access to the sumptuous club house with good food, good storage for dinghy, gear etc., and very helpful/friendly people. Not sure about fuel provisions there.
I thoroughly recommend you contact them.

Good luck.
 
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Hi Robert, I'm planning to keep going. If stopping my preferred stops will be Blyth and Peterhead. I'd like to go into Burghead as well if I've got time cos that's where my boaty career started when I went out on an inshore trawler there as a young lad during my hols .. fond memories!
 
If you need fuel, you’ll need to call in to the Royal Quays as the RNYC on the Blyth doesn’t have a fuel pontoon.
The bunker for the RQ is a couple of miles up the river from the sea. It is on the north side of the river at the entrance before the marina lock. Blyth is about 10 miles by sea from there.

If it’s sunny you’ll get a sea breeze, usually building by lunch time if the barometric winds are light or along the shore. Any cloud inland of the shore kills the sea breeze.
 
You've obviously never met me ;-) The only things tall about me are tales of past exploits ;-)


And plans of fantastic voyages in the planning stage too? ;)

To continue the theme of the Blyth Clubhouse, for those of you unfamiliar therewith, the "clubhouse" is an old wooden lightship.
I believe it is the oldest such vessel still afloat and in regular use.

Unlike the iron/steel-construction Levington /SYH clubhouse, the headroom is "challenging" and if my memory serves me well the deck in the bar slopes fore-to-aft - or it may have been the Guiness!!!
 
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The sea breeze regularly extends to 30 miles or so at the end of the day in N Yorks, S Yorks and Lincolnshire. I’ve not been at sea there, but if it matches, it will be a good way offshore. Clearly, the closer, the better.
 
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