jimi
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Only ask cos SWMBO has a hankering to visit ancestral ditches on the East coast and needs must when the devil drives!
Would anyone in their right mind take a finkeeler creekcrawling in mudland?
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Sans Bateau
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When are you going?
Champagne Murphy
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Plenty of nice places, how deeps the boat?
jimi
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Not sure when but the boat draws 6 foot
sailorman
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Malish
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stay away, terrible place for anything but a lifting keel...
dylanwinter
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Do it
it would be such a shame to miss out on one of the UKs most amazing places to sail
lots of placescan accommodate you
Roach, Crouch, west mersea, Bradwell, Brightlingsea, bit of the backwaters,
Orwell, Deben, Ore
It will be great - it iis jjust that it would be even better in a bilge keeler
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it would be such a shame to miss out on one of the UKs most amazing places to sail
lots of placescan accommodate you
Roach, Crouch, west mersea, Bradwell, Brightlingsea, bit of the backwaters,
Orwell, Deben, Ore
It will be great - it iis jjust that it would be even better in a bilge keeler
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IanPoole2
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East Coast deep draught
Yes - but with care and attention.
At high water you can usually get to places where you can safely moor e.g. Brightlinsea / Bradwell / West Mersea / Titchmarsh / Ipswich / Woodbridge
Give it a go and perhaps take a dinghy - or just stay for a few hours over HW in more difficult places - Maldon / Rowhedge etc
Yes - but with care and attention.
At high water you can usually get to places where you can safely moor e.g. Brightlinsea / Bradwell / West Mersea / Titchmarsh / Ipswich / Woodbridge
Give it a go and perhaps take a dinghy - or just stay for a few hours over HW in more difficult places - Maldon / Rowhedge etc
johnphilip
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Why Not?
Deep Draught just adds a little spice, but in truth we take our 2M draught to almost everywhere we went with shallower boats. An exception might be all the way up to Snape on the Alde,Iken is far enough for me. Most high water landings are still fine, Hopefully I will show Walton and Frinton Yacht Club and Mistley Quay (despite the fence the nasty landowner has put up to keep me away)
Crossing shingle bars you will be having to stay closer to high water, but so what, half tide on the flood will get you nearly everywhere.
Deep Draught just adds a little spice, but in truth we take our 2M draught to almost everywhere we went with shallower boats. An exception might be all the way up to Snape on the Alde,Iken is far enough for me. Most high water landings are still fine, Hopefully I will show Walton and Frinton Yacht Club and Mistley Quay (despite the fence the nasty landowner has put up to keep me away)
Crossing shingle bars you will be having to stay closer to high water, but so what, half tide on the flood will get you nearly everywhere.
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Tradewinds
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Ask Photodog
Ask Photodog.
He made the switch from south coast to East Coast.
He was enquiring about the sailing on the west coast of Scotland not so long ago
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Maybe not an East Coast convert after all
?
Ask Photodog.
He made the switch from south coast to East Coast.
He was enquiring about the sailing on the west coast of Scotland not so long ago
.Maybe not an East Coast convert after all
?
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It sounds proper messing about in boats stuff. For me, up in the Firth of Clyde, or even on the West Coast, gets a bit tedious.
Frankie-H
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Shush..... Don't tell them all. Let them think all our mud is dangerous and that easy coast tides do not obay the normal rules. That way we can keep our secrets for a few more years. Except, of course, for those special friends, who we invite to share our magic.
Tradewinds
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Guess I'm not into mud 
maypolelil
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Lots of people on the East Coast have deep drafts. (thankyou Sailorman!!!)
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sailorman
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Downsman
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When you're 2 miles off and you see the Seagulls standing up it doesn't mean they've got 20 foot legs...and the water looks like weak Bisto gravy..
I've been up there a few times with 6 foot draught and only come away with a few extra grey hairs..Don't miss it, smashing area to sail.
I've been up there a few times with 6 foot draught and only come away with a few extra grey hairs..Don't miss it, smashing area to sail.
Marmalade
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We sail a 2m draft fin keeler out of Shotley. We sail into the Walton Backwaters, in and out of the Deben and Ore, into Woodbridge tidemill, into Heybridge Basin, in and out of Brightlingsea all season, through the spitway and all over the Thames Estuary.
You need to pay a little attention to the tides, have Roger Gaspar's book to hand and not be concerned to cross a bar with 0.5m under you.
You need to pay a little attention to the tides, have Roger Gaspar's book to hand and not be concerned to cross a bar with 0.5m under you.
Koeketiene
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No - they wouldn't.
Unless...
1. You actually like potholing (creekcrawling)
2. You have plenty of time. Tides are a major consideration - you can get to most places, but the window can be small (couple of hours either side of HW if you are lucky).
Guapa draws 7' and we're East Coast based for the simple reason that places within driving distance of Hemel with enough water are unaffordable to us.
BAtoo
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