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| df |
Posted - 30 May 2016 : 16:20:25
Can someone please pray to the wind gods for me! Currently sat in wells harbour bouncing about like a fecking space hopper on acid watching my return window disappearing, may have to leave the boat here for a week (at £23 night!).
May try a dive back to gt.yarmouth wednesday but not looking good, can see a trip out and scurrying back in happening at this rate.....
Can someone design a pause button for boats please?
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| Deano |
Posted - 07 Jun 2016 : 18:02:13
I don't understand what all this visibility issue is all about....
That is a simple picture of me approaching Kings Lynn..... we were on a way to a party...
This is my friend following me to the moorings....
It was actually a lot darker then that.... the phone camera gain makes the sky look much lighter than it actually was. Its a good job it wasn't raining.....
Dean - Boating on the Great Ouse.
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| df |
Posted - 07 Jun 2016 : 08:13:14
Still got a bit of a problem, port engine would only rev to 2800rpm on the way back, had a good shake up so that's probably still pulling some crud through.
Northern rivers are always best avoided in the school holidays that's why I like the southern broads.
I always think the brundal navy cruise in company with all the support looks a bit too wussy and more about going out to pose than actually go anywhere.
I checked the wells webcam and see the big broom is still there, they tried on the bank holiday sunday and last saturday morning to get out but came running back in, don't blame them saturday as the visibility was sod all and the water was breaking over the bar well.
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| john-m |
Posted - 06 Jun 2016 : 19:53:49
Glad you got back ok Dave. Guess you have sorted your diesel bug problem. We were out last week as well but our only problem were trying to find a mooring up the north side and avoiding hire boats. We saw the brundel navy all going out with support boats etc.
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| cliveshep |
Posted - 06 Jun 2016 : 13:32:10
Hi-jacking your thread Dave..................
Aaahh - Breydon, that brings back memories, like stern-hauling a broken down hire boat out from under the bows of the steamer Queen of the Broads that used to ply between Norwich and Yarmouth, or attending to rescue some kids who had cut it a bit fine and decided to run from the Bure around to the Yare and up Breydon at night so as to be able to return the boat in time at end of hire.
They went onto the putty just inside Breydon where the whalings used to be to starboard, by the time I and the Yarmouth tugmaster arrived you'd have needed a crane to get it off - the prop was completely out of the water on the falling tide. We used my tender to get the kids off and transferred them to the tug but the boat wasn't going anywhere for some time. What most sticks in my mind was the record player they off-loaded along with the suit-cases and bags!
That stranding would take some explaining as hire boats may not navigate at night!
Later the Harbour-Master called us to drag a Carribean that was blocking the channel opposite the yacht station. He got stuck trying to turn round with bow on the putty, the outgoing tide completed the job sticking the stern onto the other side of the channel. We had more bollard pull than the "tug" so got the job which we did do successfully much to the delight of the Harbour Haster who thought the Bure would be sealed off until the tide turned.
Later on he got us to haul off a little clinker cruiser that the wind had blown of course to it ploughed onto a gravel/sand bank. The only way we could get it off with it's short keel nicely on was to tie a rope around it floated under and passed over the coach roof and haul it beam ways off, rolling it with the rope to lift it's keel. The owner was quite chuffed although we distinctly heard the sound of breaking crockery so he probably hadn't shut the galley lockers very well. We recovered warp, said farewell to the Harbour Master and beat a hasty retreat!
Finally living the dream!
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| df |
Posted - 05 Jun 2016 : 17:41:49
Woohoo! Made it back at last.
The fog didn't clear till late morning so decided to go for it on the afternoon tide at 4.30pm, on the way out got called on the radio by a merry fisher coming back in to say it was very bumpy out there and he wasn't lying, once over the bar it calmed to just lumpy, not till we rounded cromer did it settle down properly to just plain rolly.
Made it in to gt.yarmouth for about 9.30pm to find only 6'6" under the bridge so had to wait till midnight to get under, after man-handling the dog over the town quay flood wall and back decided definately heading elsewhere for the night so a midnight expedition across breydon water was in order, with no moon and a bit of mist I would not recomend it to anyone sane.
Boat now back at regular mooring and me back at home, will sleep well tonight (after the pub of course).
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| df |
Posted - 04 Jun 2016 : 11:33:46
Meant to clear during thr day but wont get through yarmouth bridge till 11.00pm, the dog will hate us, will have to get him a plug.....
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| Deano |
Posted - 04 Jun 2016 : 11:11:18
Good luck with the later tide...... Fog... gawd knows whats comming next...
There doesn't appear to have been any movement of boats all week, looking at the web cam!!!
If the vis is still low, I think you should go for it.... you have radar and a chart plotter, its not a tricky coast.... what could go wrong???? I would happily do it in the dark....... but then I'm stupid!!!
Dean - Boating on the Great Ouse.
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| df |
Posted - 04 Jun 2016 : 05:40:56
FFS! 3am and it's a bit misty, 4.20am and we can't see the quay through the fog, got till 8am to clear or it's back to bed till the pm tide.
I hate mornings!!!!!! Left the pub early for this too
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| df |
Posted - 02 Jun 2016 : 13:54:57
Here's how the run round was.
https://youtu.be/o6q8NK6SZVI
I am hoping for a similar run saturday morning now as the winds look to be dropping, time to go and waste some more diesel....
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| IanM |
Posted - 01 Jun 2016 : 21:11:01
Gah! You English folk. All you ever do is complain about the weather.
We've had summer. It was that week or so just after the snow, sleet, hail, thunder and lightning (we seeded a new lawn just before that lot...)
Anyhow, in about three weeks time we'll confidently be able to say that the nights are drawing in.
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| df |
Posted - 01 Jun 2016 : 18:02:55
Don't you love the british summer! 1st june and I'm on a weeks holiday, back at home after leaving the boat in wells, been in pub all afternoon in front of a fire, got home and lit my own fire, WTF is going on???
Hoping for a boat rescue mission saturday, fingers crossed......
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| df |
Posted - 31 May 2016 : 13:36:38
I got 3 extra nylon ropes out and getting close to high water now with F7-8 blowing straight from north, got the hawaii five 0 theme going through my head for some reason, may have to take the dog to the pub for a break.
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| Deano |
Posted - 31 May 2016 : 12:40:38
I had a bouncy night there last summer.... I had 2 sets of extra springs and they were stretching like elastic....!!!!
Dean - Boating on the Great Ouse.
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| df |
Posted - 31 May 2016 : 10:26:10
It's fairly quiet now as the tide is out, been a right bouncy night, looks like a bail out plan is going ahead.
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| Deano |
Posted - 31 May 2016 : 09:57:50
Looks fine on the webcam.......
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