some wonderul harbours in the Firth
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armchairsailor
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Typical. You just start getting up to my neck of the woods when I've gone and emigrated. You could have stored your stuff at my house if I'd been around, and I only lived 20mins away from the bridges. Surely there's another scuttlebutter around here that would store your gear? The clubs up there have good winter season talks, and I'd say that it would be a good way to help fund your adventure - either in dosh or help in kind - storage, mooring etc. I'm sure PEYC and RFYC would be up for a night of Mr Winter's Slow Circumnavigation (oo-er...).
Time to think creatively Dyl...
Time to think creatively Dyl...
Swg
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I'm sitting up in bed looking out of the window and can see the Forth under a sunset that would require no fancy editing to blow you away. It's been steadily F3/4 for a couple of weeks and regular day time temp of around 23. I've been sailing with seals, puffins and gannets the last few weeks in evening light until 10.30pm. All this and hardly anyone else on the water. If you'd like to pm with your timings/ loose plans I'm sure I could help.
dylanwinter
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thanks for this
I have been pm'd by fascadale of this parish who has been watching the films since I left the Isle of wight
he has emailed the berthing people at the Forth Corinthian YC
http://www.fcyc.org.uk/
they have drying moorings and a pontoon
so it sounds perfecto if they can find space for katie L
D
Yantlet
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Why don't you do a house swap with someone in the North, surely better than all that driving. I am sure there must be someone who would love some time living in your rural idyl looking after your menagerie while you care for theirs...kids not included!
Bilgediver
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You forgot to include haggis, deep fried Mars Bars and Buckfast. If, as has been suggested elsewhere in these forums/fora, inhabitants of Scotland eat/drink nothing else the shops won't sell anything for sassenachs.
I sense Dylan is an Irn Bru man and heaven forbid maybe a taste for Bells Pies. These can be warmed up in his Origo saucepan oven!
sighmoon
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No it hasn't. We crossed it last week and there was no wind at all. (the rest of it's about right though)
Bilgediver
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Just enter some with caution......Some of those Google pictures are out of the Ark!!!! There are numerous tower blocks now sitting on one of those harbour mud banks.
Sgeir
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Dylan, with your shallow draft and ability to drop the mast, you might want to call in at Alloa and come up as far as Stirling - the river is tidal as far as the west side of the town.
Obsolete UKHO charts are available and there is a full navigational briefing at http://www.forthestuaryforum.co.uk/assets/pdf/FEF Yacht Guide LOW RES.pdf.
Prevous threads on the Foirth to Stirling at
* http://www.ybw.com/forums/showthread.php?124848-Whaur-s-this&highlight=Stirling
* http://www.ybw.com/forums/showthrea...g-2-3-June-Jubilee-weekend&highlight=Stirling
* http://www.ybw.com/forums/showthrea...River-Forth-to-Stirling-from-Grangemouth-pics
If you get this far there could a hot meal, a few bevvies and a shower available....
The UKHO charts up to Stirling are in the MemoryMap UKHO chart pack.
PM sent.
Obsolete UKHO charts are available and there is a full navigational briefing at http://www.forthestuaryforum.co.uk/assets/pdf/FEF Yacht Guide LOW RES.pdf.
Prevous threads on the Foirth to Stirling at
* http://www.ybw.com/forums/showthread.php?124848-Whaur-s-this&highlight=Stirling
* http://www.ybw.com/forums/showthrea...g-2-3-June-Jubilee-weekend&highlight=Stirling
* http://www.ybw.com/forums/showthrea...River-Forth-to-Stirling-from-Grangemouth-pics
If you get this far there could a hot meal, a few bevvies and a shower available....
The UKHO charts up to Stirling are in the MemoryMap UKHO chart pack.
PM sent.
alan_d
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Dylan, as you may have already concluded from other replies, if you want to be familiar about the Firth of Forth you refer to it as the Forth, not the firth. This is not an invariant rule - it works for the Solway Firth and the Firths of Clyde and Tay, but not for the Moray or Dornoch Firths.
(Hope that helps.)
(Hope that helps.)
dylanwinter
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I fear it will be a while before I am on familiar terms with such an illustrious body of water
first I have to earn her respect
Dylan
cryan
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Or as those who work her know her as, "The River."
I have sailed to every corner of the globe in the Merchant Navy but if someone told me I must spend my days stuck on the Forth I would die a happy man! Sentimental perhaps, and I am biased as a local but the five years I spent working on the river were amongst my happiest and even now I love nothing more than exploring the little towns and beaches along the banks of the Forth. Dysart, Lower Largo,Dunbar,Pittenweem are amongst the prettiest but there are many many more. Most of the harbours do dry out so you will be stuck there for the tide which will force you to explore.
NormanS
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Dylan, with your shallow draft and ability to drop the mast, you might want to call in at Alloa and come up as far as Stirling - the river is tidal as far as the west side of the town.
Obsolete UKHO charts are available and there is a full navigational briefing at http://www.forthestuaryforum.co.uk/assets/pdf/FEF Yacht Guide LOW RES.pdf.
Prevous threads on the Foirth to Stirling at
* http://www.ybw.com/forums/showthread.php?124848-Whaur-s-this&highlight=Stirling
* http://www.ybw.com/forums/showthrea...g-2-3-June-Jubilee-weekend&highlight=Stirling
* http://www.ybw.com/forums/showthrea...River-Forth-to-Stirling-from-Grangemouth-pics
If you get this far there could a hot meal, a few bevvies and a shower available....
The UKHO charts up to Stirling are in the MemoryMap UKHO chart pack.
PM sent.
A long time ago, I sailed a dinghy up from Cramond Island up to Stirling. Wasn't sure if we were going to get under the Kincardine bridge, so tied alongside the island jetty, and let the boat back on a line. Had to take the burgee down. Camped for the night on Tullibody Inch, and then got the full force of the flood tide, right up to Stirling. Presumably it can still be done.
armchairsailor
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As long as that new upper Forth crossing bridge's air draft isn't lower than the Kinky bridge. Anyhow, I think Dylan should force them to open the Kincardine Bridge - it should still swing...?. Lovely, ugly 1930's thing: always reminded me of the Buster Crabbe versions of Flash Gordon in its architecture and decoration. Anything to take me mind off that hellish commute to Glasgow to work for that bunch of feckers...
ProDave
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Ah yes the new third Forth bridge.
They recently discovered that the main stays of the FRB are not rusting as quick as they thought they were, but hey, they have started the third bridge now, so might as well continue.
I'm sure Dylan will drop his mast and explore the Forth & Clyde canal, and even go up on the wheel onto the Union canal and into the centre of Edinburgh.
They recently discovered that the main stays of the FRB are not rusting as quick as they thought they were, but hey, they have started the third bridge now, so might as well continue.
I'm sure Dylan will drop his mast and explore the Forth & Clyde canal, and even go up on the wheel onto the Union canal and into the centre of Edinburgh.
NormanS
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I imagine that the bridge to which armchairsailor refers is the new one upstream of the Kincardine bridge. The Clackmannanshire (?) bridge. I don't think any of us here have masts that will be inconvenienced by the new bridge being built at Queensferry.
armchairsailor
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Thanks Norman. I was indeed referring the the Clackmannanshire bridge, but had forgotten its name. Apparently HMS Sheffield had to lower some of her masts for going under the Forth & Road bridges to Rosyth back in the day... That must have been a sight.
Pitterpatter
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Dylan,
PM me if/when you want to stop at North Queensferry. If you give me a day or two's notice I should be able to sort a mooring right under the rail bridge if easterlies are blowing or in the small sheltered harbour if the wind is from the west. A pint will also be waiting for you in the pub as well if you do.
We have just returned from two weeks of the Forth. It seems strange only going 35 miles for your summer holidays - but it rates as one of the best in my 40 years. Anstruther is a hoot - the people there are so friendly and there is something nice about sitting in your boat watching the activity on the busy waterfront. There are also a lot of little gems you have missed on your list of harbours. Some of the islands are worth looking at as well (others aren't though - so ask before you go). The East Neuk villages around Anstruther are all well worth visiting, as are many places all the way up the river on both sides.
PM me if/when you want to stop at North Queensferry. If you give me a day or two's notice I should be able to sort a mooring right under the rail bridge if easterlies are blowing or in the small sheltered harbour if the wind is from the west. A pint will also be waiting for you in the pub as well if you do.
We have just returned from two weeks of the Forth. It seems strange only going 35 miles for your summer holidays - but it rates as one of the best in my 40 years. Anstruther is a hoot - the people there are so friendly and there is something nice about sitting in your boat watching the activity on the busy waterfront. There are also a lot of little gems you have missed on your list of harbours. Some of the islands are worth looking at as well (others aren't though - so ask before you go). The East Neuk villages around Anstruther are all well worth visiting, as are many places all the way up the river on both sides.
dylanwinter
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it certainly looks like a most entertaining place to sail
so many places to visit
lets hope we meet up in october some time
D
fergie_mac66
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When you do go round spurn pt do so with some offing from chequers shoal. I met some really nasty overfalls and what appeared to be standing waves a few years ago in a westerly 22, It is the only place where I have ever had solid water into the cockpit.I had 2 of 4 washboards in and as they were routinely tied down no water down below but 8 inches in the (self draining) cockpit The wind was about a 3/4 , I cannot remember the direction. I was about .5 of a mile north of the schoal bouy . I have met 2 other people who have met similar conditions in the same place.