Whitby?

[steve yates]

So much so that the local football club uses H'angus the Monkey as its mascot!

That's genius

 

[westhinder]

I don't think he got that !

Obviously not. Care to enlighten me?

 

[trevork52]

This will relate the bones of the legend!

http://www.thisishartlepool.co.uk/history/thehartlepoolmonkey.asp

 

[westhinder]

This will relate the bones of the legend!

http://www.thisishartlepool.co.uk/history/thehartlepoolmonkey.asp

Thanks

 

[Tomahawk]

Yes it does

Is that dries, or limited depth?
And what is the bottom like?

Do you sink into mud or is it hard ?

 

[BrianH]

Is that dries, or limited depth?
And what is the bottom like?

Do you sink into mud or is it hard ?

Back in the 1960s-70s when I used to visit it was mud on sand.

When I first started sailing at Whitby in the early 1960s, I did so with a Wayfarer, later small cruisers, and for the longer races crewed for a friend with a cruising folkboat. Once we were moored up in Scarborough harbour having arrived the evening before the next day's race, laying against the wall near the entrance on a falling tide.

Repairing to SYC above us in the pier lighthouse for light refreshment we returned much later when the yacht had settled on the bottom, stropped inwards and leaning on the wall, at low tide and turned in. In the early hours we were awakened by an almighty crash, the boat was beginning to lift and drop on the returning tide while at the same time a stiff, southerly was driving small waves through the narrow harbour entrance.

The impact of the keel on sand and mud was incredible, the mast shook at every impact and they were only small waves. As it was, my friend removed the log transducer, flooded the boat until she settled again on the bottom until the water was high enough to again begin to lift, then to pump out to properly float above the impact point.

 

[Halo]

Hey Ohlin
How about an update on your progress?
If you are in Hartlepool tomorrow then I will buy you a coffee (or a pint! )
Martin

 

[BlueChip]

Pay a visit to the lifeboat station and read about bravery of the lifeboat crew,it was many years ago when I visited and it still makes me shiver just to think about what those men went through.
https://rnli.org/about-us/our-history/timeline/1861-whitby-lifeboat-disaster

 

[Ohlin Karcher]

Hey Ohlin
How about an update on your progress?
If you are in Hartlepool tomorrow then I will buy you a coffee (or a pint! )
Martin

Hi Martin we are leaving Hartlepool on Saturday morning and arriving at Whitby at HW ish, so sadly I will miss your kind hospitality this time, but another time definitely. I have some young day skippers who are keeping me busy :encouragement:

 

[Baddox]

We called in to Hartlepool this summer and the depth was just slightly below chart datum according my recollection and calcs. Is it any better? To leave Hartlepool and arrive in Whitby at HW would need either deep water, a shallow draught, a fast boat or some combination of those unless you’re going HW to HW. It has put us off this option before so I’m interested to hear if anything has changed.

I have heard from several different people that Scarborough has been dredged and is far more accommodating to fin keel draughts than the charts imply.

 

[Ohlin Karcher]

We called in to Hartlepool this summer and the depth was just slightly below chart datum according my recollection and calcs. Is it any better? To leave Hartlepool and arrive in Whitby at HW would need either deep water, a shallow draught, a fast boat or some combination of those unless you’re going HW to HW. It has put us off this option before so I’m interested to hear if anything has changed.

I have heard from several different people that Scarborough has been dredged and is far more accommodating to fin keel draughts than the charts imply.

Fast boat, moderate draught: I draw 1.6m and plan for 6 but will be sailing at 7 kts most of the way, plus a bit of tide helping so may see 8 kts SOG on occasion.
Being a bit conservative because of a lock, a swing bridge, and hopefully a bit of gybing practice on the way.
I can get out at around noon when there will be 2m+ in H-pool, and get into Whitby around HW or preferably a bit before. The legs finishing at, and starting from, Grimsby need the most passage planning and juggling with tides, on this series of southbound hops.
Will probably be wanting to hop round to Scarborough on Sun/Mon, don't know if I can get to GY at the beginning of the week, and it's a bit far ahead but there is a bit of too-strong wind supposedly coming through midweek.

 

[Ohlin Karcher]

Pay a visit to the lifeboat station and read about bravery of the lifeboat crew,it was many years ago when I visited and it still makes me shiver just to think about what those men went through.
https://rnli.org/about-us/our-history/timeline/1861-whitby-lifeboat-disaster

200 shipwrecks in one night!

 

[Ohlin Karcher]

Is that dries, or limited depth?
And what is the bottom like?

Do you sink into mud or is it hard ?

All of the above :encouragement:

 

[Ohlin Karcher]

I thought Scarborough dried or has very limited depths?

Hi an update, we pulled into Scarb several hours before HW, having phoned the helpful HM for depth guidance, and there are floating marina type pontoons which don't dry out, there are several fin keelers, we are next to a Co32.
Free water and lecky, toilets clean, interesting little town.
The comissioners have got a decent dredger ( a big JCB welded on a self-propelled spud barge, just the ticket) and it's doing a great job.
Useful chandlers 100 yds away had what I needed.
Grimsby tomorrow, steaming into the mouth of the Humber on the spring flood will be exhilarating!

 

[Halo]

Sounds great
If you find the weather gets too strong to go S then a trip to Hull is worthwhile. With the speed of tides in the Humber it wouldn’t add much to your journey S when the weather clears.


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