Want to see some tide?

[claymore]

I have an interesting piece of video shot as we went through Cuan when we really shouldn't have.
It picks up the full effect of the tide nicely including that rather intimidating way it has of running downhill from one level to another.
The video is enhanced by Dear Heart's comments which can be clearly heard in which she is encouraging me to consider steering the boat with my hands rather than my knees and to look upon our passage directly rather than through the viewfinder of the camera. Well - loosely translated I think that what she was saying.

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[Rabbie]

Chi entrance yesterday I did a 'double-take' when I saw 7.4kts by lifeboat station!.

<hr width=100% size=1>A day not spent on my boat is a day in my life wasted.

 

[Aja]

Re: The Southern Jessies do

No. So post a picture and let us see just how fearsome it can be.

There is a famous picture from the late sixties of the first of the Laurent Giles' class - named 'Dorus Mhor' going through the Dorus Mhor in an easterly gale. What a sight. I wonder if anyone could conjure up that picture from the archives.....

I can well remember as a young lad being terribly seasick on the old St Ola as she crossed back from Stromness to Scrabster. The year? The same year that the ascent of the Old Man of Hoy was first filmed by the BBC. '65? Anyway that was rough!!!

Donald



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[ParaHandy]

Wash & go ... ??

isnae thush ra argyll boat wash? 2/6d a shottie. mind, orra dish cloot youse hing oot ra front fer a spinnaker could dae wi' a wash .....

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[halcyon]

Got worse pictures than that one, we used to stay at Adfern with mates boat ( towed up from the Midlands ), thus we used to cross twice a day.
Remember entering one wirlpool on a heading south, excited heading west.
Grey Dogs now that is rough.


Brian

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[oldharry]

Dunno which Pilot guide you are using Cliff, but I think most people who have exprienced it will agree there is nothing 'potential' about the Portland Race if you go through at the wrong time - except for the potential that you will lose your dinner and your cool.

Like any of these hazards, get the timing right, and there is no problem.

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[extravert]

Nah, the sea's level, can't be that bad. Look at this picture of the Bitches near my neck of the woods. The tide flows so strongly the sea even slopes.

<hr width=100% size=1>One day, I want to be a real sailor. In the mean time I'll just keep tri-ing.

 

[Aja]

Is that navigatable - I mean as a recognised passage?

Donald

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[extravert]

It is navigable at the correct tide state. It was like this when I last went through.

<hr width=100% size=1>One day, I want to be a real sailor. In the mean time I'll just keep tri-ing.

 

[Mr__Max]

Granted the picture claymore has posted is indeed most attractive, and Im sure that the hired rowing boats as they go through must indeed be turned at least 20 degrees off course, the needles and Portland Bill do on occassions get a wee bit choppyand no doubt some of you have spilt your shandy.

BUT LADIES: The Bristol channel has the second highest tidal range in THE WORLD, if you truely want to see some waves and whirl pools come pay us a visit take a trip up the kings roads on an ebbing spring tide with a strong south westerly.

there are no photos of it as clearly no body has ever survived !

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