thrusting up the Weir and the Tyne

[dylanwinter]

thrusting up the Wear and the Tyne

looking at google earth I can see a weir a few miles inland on the weir

has anyone gone upstream in a dinghy

and the Tyne... any experiences/ideas/warnings you care tio share

I am currently in Seaham harbour - and very nice it is too

they shot alien 3 on the beach here

it represented a prison planet

good eh?

D

http://www.keepturningleft.co.uk/blogs/hartlepool-to-seaham/

 

[elton]

Weir (a small overflow-type dam) <> Wear (the river).

You can easily drag a small dinghy up or around most, if not all of the weirs on the Wear between Wearmouth and Durham. Downstream, just ride them, but best wear (wear<>Wear<>wier) a hard hat.

 

[kicking strap]

Hi dylan, see http://www.bbc.co.uk/wear/content/articles/2006/02/21/down_by_the_river_feature.shtml

 

[dylanwinter]

katie

Weir (a small overflow-type dam) <> Wear (the river).

You can easily drag a small dinghy up or around most, if not all of the weirs on the Wear between Wearmouth and Durham. Downstream, just ride them, but best wear (wear<>Wear<>wier) a hard hat.

only hoping to get the boat (draws 15 inches) up as far as the first weir.

D

 

[macd]

I daresay you're already familiar with this, Dylan: http://www.jim-shead.com/waterways/WW-page.php?wpage=WEAR
It describes the river as navigable as far as Chester-le-Street, but gives no specific information about depths.
If you get that far by tomorrow, you might end up on telly: you might float through the background of the current Ashes test.

But beware the Lambton Worm. It eats small boats for breakfast:
This fearful worm would often feed
On calves an' lambs an' sheep
An' swallow little bairns alive
When they laid down to sleep
An' when he'd eaten all he could
An' he had had his fill
He crawled away and lapped his tail
Ten times round Penshaw Hill

 

[BrianH]

But beware the Lambton Worm. It eats small boats for breakfast:

When I sailed the NE coast a lifetime or two ago, I was warned about the shoals of Sunderland salmon, how they could block the engine water inlet. But those were the bad old days before modern sewage processing.

 

[lpdsn]

looking at google earth I can see a weir a few miles inland on the weir

has anyone gone upstream in a dinghy

and the Tyne... any experiences/ideas/warnings you care tio share

I am currently in Seaham harbour - and very nice it is too

they shot alien 3 on the beach here

it represented a prison planet

good eh?

D

http://www.keepturningleft.co.uk/blogs/hartlepool-to-seaham/

There were rapids at Chester-le-Street before they built the weir on the Wear there, so I doubt you'd get that far anyway.

 

[Caer Urfa]

looking at google earth I can see a weir a few miles inland on the weir

has anyone gone upstream in a dinghy

and the Tyne... any experiences/ideas/warnings you care tio share

I am currently in Seaham harbour - and very nice it is too

they shot alien 3 on the beach here

it represented a prison planet

good eh?

D

http://www.keepturningleft.co.uk/blogs/hartlepool-to-seaham/

From the Tyne entrance to Newcastle it is 9 miles, and I would think with a draft of 15" 'I think' you could go another 5 miles at least, BUT, beware of the currents especially near the Newcastle bridges.

Might be passing you as we will probably call into Seaham during the week on the way to Hartlepool from the Tyne.

'If' your into Royal Quays marina on the Tyne pop over for a cuppa, I am on 'C' Pontoon Caer Urfa.

Mike

 

[dylanwinter]

I daresay you're already familiar with this, Dylan: http://www.jim-shead.com/waterways/WW-page.php?wpage=WEAR
It describes the river as navigable as far as Chester-le-Street, but gives no specific information about depths.
If you get that far by tomorrow, you might end up on telly: you might float through the background of the current Ashes test.

But beware the Lambton Worm. It eats small boats for breakfast:
This fearful worm would often feed
On calves an' lambs an' sheep
An' swallow little bairns alive
When they laid down to sleep
An' when he'd eaten all he could
An' he had had his fill
He crawled away and lapped his tail
Ten times round Penshaw Hill

I saw the worm