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Hi,
I am planning to do some proper 'exploration' of Walton backwaters this year, I have sailed up to tichmarsh marina a few times and did once on a friend's boat sail around Horsey island. My main question however was if anyone knew where one could buy individual Admiralty leisure folio charts. I already have the imray set however i fancy a larger scale chart of this area and i realize admiralty do this but i don't want to spend out £50 for just one chart.
Thanks Jack
 
Jack B said:
Hi,
I am planning to do some proper 'exploration' of Walton backwaters this year, I have sailed up to tichmarsh marina a few times and did once on a friend's boat sail around Horsey island. My main question however was if anyone knew where one could buy individual Admiralty leisure folio charts. I already have the imray set however i fancy a larger scale chart of this area and i realize admiralty do this but i don't want to spend out £50 for just one chart.
Thanks Jack
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I did not think you could buy individual charts from Admiralty Leisure Folios. 2695 is a standard admiralty chart that covers the backwaters. ( £23 )


Chart of the backwaters on Visitmyharbour.com of any interest?
http://www.visitmyharbour.com/harbours/east-coast/walton-backwaters/charts.asp?cattype=5
 
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Just spent a very enjoyable time watching those vids whilst its trying to sleet outside and prior to a night shift,
A huge thank you.................
 
Yes, thanks for posting those - just been up and down the Stour with you, and even sitting on my mooring at Wrabness for a while!

Just to set the record straight, though, the land at Wrabness was bought by the hut owners from the landowner (it was a farm, not common land) because they didn't want to be evicted to allow a holiday camp and marina to be developed there. There was no intention of keeping visitors away, and 'rough sailing' is very much in the spirit of the place: a rare thing nowadays.
 
Corribee Boy said:
Yes, thanks for posting those - just been up and down the Stour with you, and even sitting on my mooring at Wrabness for a while!

Just to set the record straight, though, the land at Wrabness was bought by the hut owners from the landowner (it was a farm, not common land) because they didn't want to be evicted to allow a holiday camp and marina to be developed there. There was no intention of keeping visitors away, and 'rough sailing' is very much in the spirit of the place: a rare thing nowadays.
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I was on the beach and was told by a female hut owner that this was private property and I had no right to be there....

I said that surely anything below the strand line was public access

she told me again to get off the private beach.....

I apologised and walked back down towards the water and paddled along the beach which seemed to mollify her

it was only the second time during the whole five years of the journey so far that I have been told to get orf moi land

the previous time it was a woman as well

Dylan
 
dylanwinter said:
I was on the beach and was told by a female hut owner that this was private property and I had no right to be there....

I said that surely anything below the strand line was public access

she told me again to get off the private beach.....

I apologised and walked back down towards the water and paddled along the beach which seemed to mollify her

it was only the second time during the whole five years of the journey so far that I have been told to get orf moi land

the previous time it was a woman as well

Dylan
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Its probably her kids that climb the cliff causing it to erode & her old man from my Obs
 
Yes, I don't know why she had that attitude - I can only apologise. Did you offer to show her a wake shot, or something? I don't think her attitude reflects that of the majority of hut owners, though I mainly know those at the East end, and I'm sure it's not the official policy of the company either. I generally welcome visiting sailors, provided they don't raft up on my mooring:mad: Generally they provide free entertainment.

Luckily most people who visit 'get' the idea of the place: it's a quiet refuge, and has been so for many years - my hut was one of the first built, in 1928, and survived the 1953 floods, though many, especially the caravans on platforms, didn't. They were built mainly by locals, often using scrap and recycled materials, which explains some of the architecture: Did you see that Jonathan Meades thing about Essex recently? Even he seemed at a loss to explain the huts!
 
Corribee Boy said:
Yes, I don't know why she had that attitude - I can only apologise. Did you offer to show her a wake shot, or something? I don't think her attitude reflects that of the majority of hut owners, though I mainly know those at the East end, and I'm sure it's not the official policy of the company either. I generally welcome visiting sailors, provided they don't raft up on my mooring:mad: Generally they provide free entertainment.

Luckily most people who visit 'get' the idea of the place: it's a quiet refuge, and has been so for many years - my hut was one of the first built, in 1928, and survived the 1953 floods, though many, especially the caravans on platforms, didn't. They were built mainly by locals, often using scrap and recycled materials, which explains some of the architecture: Did you see that Jonathan Meades thing about Essex recently? Even he seemed at a loss to explain the huts!
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i normally try to moor up by the wreck & the handsome Great Dane 27
 
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Jack B said:
Hi,
I am planning to do some proper 'exploration' of Walton backwaters this year, I have sailed up to tichmarsh marina a few times and did once on a friend's boat sail around Horsey island. My main question however was if anyone knew where one could buy individual Admiralty leisure folio charts. I already have the imray set however i fancy a larger scale chart of this area and i realize admiralty do this but i don't want to spend out £50 for just one chart.
Thanks Jack
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Try and get hold of a very old edition of East Coast Rivers, the early editions had much more detail on the creeks and backwaters. For instance there is a ditch in the backwaters leading up to an old quay made from stones from the original London Bridge, it made an interesting afternoon trip in the dinghy during a very hot week we spent in the backwaters when my eldest son was very young. It was probably 30 years ago when we did it but he still talks about it from time to time.
 
BlueChip said:
Try and get hold of a very old edition of East Coast Rivers, the early editions had much more detail on the creeks and backwaters. For instance there is a ditch in the backwaters leading up to an old quay made from stones from the original London Bridge, it made an interesting afternoon trip in the dinghy during a very hot week we spent in the backwaters when my eldest son was very young. It was probably 30 years ago when we did it but he still talks about it from time to time.
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that sounds great

some-one somewhere should make a film about that
 
BlueChip said:
Try and get hold of a very old edition of East Coast Rivers, the early editions had much more detail on the creeks and backwaters. For instance there is a ditch in the backwaters leading up to an old quay made from stones from the original London Bridge, it made an interesting afternoon trip in the dinghy during a very hot week we spent in the backwaters when my eldest son was very young. It was probably 30 years ago when we did it but he still talks about it from time to time.
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Beaumont Quay above Landermere Ck
 
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