the nicest harbour entrance in the World - probably

Brings back memories. I was berthed there for a couple of seasons in 79/80 with a Snapdragon 670. The "pontoon" then was a cylindrical rubber dracone, entertaining when wet, especially after a pub visit. The beauty of such place is the camaraderie it imbues amongst the denizens.

My propellor's in the mud there too, fell off as I was vacating the berth for the last time to move Sarf. Still it had seen us to the Med and back.
 
Right up to the last moment, I didn't expect there to be a marina there.

The boats on shore look like they have relatively deep keels; can they really hope to get through that channel?

dylanwinter said:
so when the weather is bad I put the boat aground or drop the hook and go below to read a good book
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I for one have appreciated the shots of cabin life when you've filmed them though.
 
sighmoon said:
Right up to the last moment, I didn't expect there to be a marina there.

The boats on shore look like they have relatively deep keels; can they really hope to get through that channel?



I for one have appreciated the shots of cabin life when you've filmed them though.
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the weird thing about the Humber Yawl club is that so many of them have deep keelers

on both sides of the river

the theory is that to beat the four knott tides then you need a boat that sails well

and the club has a tradition for long journeys

almost every year some-one comes back from a round the Uk tour

last week one of them headed off for the baltic - there is a bloke ther called AJ who built a steel ketch and sailed it to the Azores and back

on the other hand - some of the boats hardly move and the blokes spend ages just messing with them and talking to me abiout the journeys they made when they were younger

great place to be based - although the deep blokes do get neaped in our out occasionally

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The film reminds me of the twisty little channel to Uphill which was made even more difficult a few years ago when an old mobo being towed out ran aground and later sank.

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Jesus H Christ on a bike. I've driven my landrover up deeper streams that that. Actually, I've mountain biked up deeper streams than that. Each to their own but that looks like my idea of hell.

I'm now going to block up my plug hole in case Katie L suddenly appears in my bathroom having navigated a Warwickshire sewer system!

(still enjoyed the vid though)
 
excellent.....one of my first sails on the Humber was out of Winteringham ...we got as far as near the end of the channel and the withies had gone and in the rush to get out at the top of the tide we got stuck for 11 hours on a mud bank with what at low water looked like a 12ft drop to the side!.......
 
ean_p said:
excellent.....one of my first sails on the Humber was out of Winteringham ...we got as far as near the end of the channel and the withies had gone and in the rush to get out at the top of the tide we got stuck for 11 hours on a mud bank with what at low water looked like a 12ft drop to the side!.......
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be brave on a rising tide

and a coward on a falling one

you left too late and were lucky that the next tide made enough to get you off

there are some fairly steep bits of mud around

but there are also some lovely flat bits for an overnight
 
correct

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oldbilbo said:
What a god-forsaken, wind-blasted, and downright ugly drainage ditch in one of the least appealing and forlorn corners of the planet! Not a tree, or even a reasonable bush, in sight. Why on earth....?

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Flat uninteresting scenery and as above, why sail up a muddy ditch.

I'll stick to the Scottish west coast.

To each their own
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you are, of course correct

and I shall really enjoy the granduer of the Scottish coastline

which is wonderfully crinkly amd I am sure will entertain me for a few summers

I have spent two summers off the west coast of scotland in the eboat and it was brilliant

however, I take my pleasures where I can get them

and to be sitting on the boat on the mud while the wind howls over the reeds, or to feel the boat quietly lift from her perfectly formed berth in the small hours of the morning and hear an owl working across the local fields, or to enjoy the power of those tides, to see a flock of 300 avocects, to watch the local harbour porpoises hiding behind a mud bank while waiting for a sea trout or salmon to come up with the tide is not entirely devoid of pleasure





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Great video - though like others have said better route for a Landie than a boat!

And interesting dodgems style approach to pilotage and checking out the banks. Probably one to take down from the website when selling the lightly used boat ("one careful owner ........ and Dylan") :)
 
dunedin said:
Great video - though like others have said better route for a Landie than a boat!

And interesting dodgems style approach to pilotage and checking out the banks. Probably one to take down from the website when selling the lightly used boat ("one careful owner ........ and Dylan") :)
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I did put the film up in real time

you will see that the boat only kisses the uber soft banks

38 people appear to have watched it so far.....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h32OKGMoYdE

51 minutes..... aaagh!
 
oldbilbo said:
What a god-forsaken, wind-blasted, and downright ugly drainage ditch in one of the least appealing and forlorn corners of the planet! Not a tree, or even a reasonable bush, in sight. Why on earth....?

I've just had my decades-long love of the Truro River reaffirmed.....
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Did nothing for me......The entrance to Vancouver fromm the Pacific including Active Pass still is tops for me and seeing Table mountain with the cloth on it early morning arrival at Capetown is second. After that there are a plethora of Japanese ports vying with The Golden GAte Bridge!:)
 
I did not watch it either

chinita said:
Including me.......until the dog woke me up for a walk.
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I did not watch the full one

and walking the dog would be much more interesting

however, 47 so far

eventually you tube will tell me how many people watched the whole thing

one thing the web has taught me is that different people like different things

I am always surprised at what people will watch

a jowly man eats a cake in a cockpit for instance

960 views and ten comments

D
 
dylanwinter said:
you are, of course correct

and I shall really enjoy the granduer of the Scottish coastline

which is wonderfully crinkly amd I am sure will entertain me for a few summers

I have spent two summers off the west coast of scotland in the eboat and it was brilliant

however, I take my pleasures where I can get them

and to be sitting on the boat on the mud while the wind howls over the reeds, or to feel the boat quietly lift from her perfectly formed berth in the small hours of the morning and hear an owl working across the local fields, or to enjoy the power of those tides, to see a flock of 300 avocects, to watch the local harbour porpoises hiding behind a mud bank while waiting for a sea trout or salmon to come up with the tide is not entirely devoid of pleasure
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Forget it Dylan... some people will never understand those with a bit of a poet in their heart.... :D
 
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