Sailing the UKs east Coast

[bastonjock]

Heres a link to a video series of sailing on the East Coast here,it gives an insite to the "mud pluggung" that we do here,as you can no doubt work out,its ideal macgregor country.

Dylan winter has not yet got up tp my part of the East Coast,but ive saied Glissando in some of the places that are shown later in his videos,such as Pyefleet,Walton backwaters,the Orwell and futher north

http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p ... 623DF88D3D

[Rob S]

Fan-bloody-tastic video blog! I never coastal sailed in England in my former life. Makes me wish I could now. Excellent series! I'm hooked. Thanks for posting this.

[Rob S]

P.S. Bastonjock..... where in Lincolnshire is your boat? When I first read your screen name I didn't have my specs on and assumed you were a displaced Scot in Boston (the REAL one)...... or maybe you are?

[opie]

Wow. I agree. Fanstastic video. I found the way to click the YouTube "Play All" method and go to large screen and I am watching the whole "Movie" automatically as he sails up the coast and down little estuaries. Wonderful. (Here is a pic I cut out of one leg showing a Mac......)


(Link to this Mac viewing video---- MAC IN THE MUD)

And this is a link that starts at #1in the series and keep the videos in order.....

[c130king]

Matt,

You should get a video camera and shoot video from your Peterborough Yacht Club through the manual lock, through Peterborough, then the long straight shot to the Sea Barrier Lock, and then down the tidal channel through Wisbech and out into the Wash.

I thought the trip we made was fascinating and I bet the others here would enjoy seeing it as well.

The UK does have some fascinating sailing/cruising/boating areas and of course some interesting challenges such as locks, big tides & currents, and lots of mud flats.

Cheers,
Jim

[bastonjock]

P.S. Bastonjock..... where in Lincolnshire is your boat? When I first read your screen name I didn't have my specs on and assumed you were a displaced Scot in Boston (the REAL one)...... or maybe you are?

I am a displaced Scot who lives in a small village called baston in South Lincolnshire.The village is about 30 miles away from the original Boston.

Jim

I have some footage of the trip that i made from Peterborough down to Wisbech,i was trying to find some software that could compress the 60 mins down to either 5 or 10 mins.I went down to Glissando mid week and to my horror found that her bow was resting on the dock side with her stern still in the water,the river had risen so much that the towing eye had caught on the wooden bank supports and then the water level had dropped,with the rain levels as they are,the river rose by two to three feet.

Ive put a spring line on her so that it will not happen again,im so glad that i decided to pop in .

[Rob S]

Matt,

Thanks for that, didn't know of Baston, but your area is familiar to me. Many moons ago I was a trainee pilot at RAF Cranwell just to the north of you. Bourne, Spalding, Wisbech, and Boston were familiar land marks and later on so were the ranges at Wainfleet and Holbeach.

Hope you didn't sustain any damage.

Robin.

[bastonjock]

robin

i know those names well,im about 4 miles south or Bourne.When i go out sailing i exit the river nene and enter the Wash,I often see the aircraft carrying out practice.last Sept i was treated to a grand stand view ,it was getting close to dusk,the blue sky had a few whispy clouds and an orange tinge,then 2 F15s came down and ran a couple of practice runs at Holbeach,then they hit the afterburners and banked,the view was straight on their engine flames against that sky.

Matt

[Rob S]

Well that would have been quite a sight! It's a long, long time since I did any "displays" out there.

Yes, Google Earth let me figure out where Baston is and it brought back those memories. The Wash looks quite uninviting from the air, just a muddy pit, but Dylan Winter's videos have made me realise that on a boat it must be a whole new experience. I love the way he can just sit on the mud and watch the birds and the tides in that ever changing scenery..... very peaceful. I'm sure the MAc is ideally suited to this environment.

[bastonjock]

The Wash is a quiet and piecefull place to sail,there are very few boats on the water there as the sailing is not fantastic,there are few places to go exploring,Wells,Brancaster,Thornham andWainfleet.Keel boats have to be very carefull,most of the boats in the area are either lifting keel or bilge,the abilty to take the bottom is a real bonus.

The East Coast has its problems for sailing,there are the tides,the mean rise is 7 meters or 22ft in old money and they can reach 3 knots even higher rates in the rivers.If we take the sailing area from Gt Yarmouth to the wash,there are no all weather ports in between and from the wash to the Humber there are no ports.There are some places where you can sail to but if the weather kicks up it can get interesting and then there are the sand banks,at low tide the sea can go out for 1.5 miles.

i was out with C130 and we had two miles of sea to the shore and the depth guage registered 2ft,those kick up keel and rudders on the mac x come in very usefull.

The best time to go sailing is around sunset and early morning,sitting on the hook when the suns going down with a coffee and a sausage butty is un beatable,except when jim brings some of that yank steak with him The wild life is great also.

[c130king]

Matt,

Just let me know when the next trip is and I will get some more of that Grade A USDA Approved Premium beef...now I am hungry again.

Jim

[Rob S]

Mmmmm......... sausage butty! You're killing me!
When we first came to the States I had to get visitors to bring HP Sauce with them, couldn't get it here. But now the local booze store has it in a little "ethnic" section with a shelf or two of "British Soul Food." Real Heinz Baked Beans, Branston Pickle, Colemans Mustard, Digestive Biscuits, Birds Custard, and even a tin or two of Spotted Dick! I'm sure Jim can relate...... sounds like he needs a trip to the BX!

[c130king]

Sorry, I can't relate to that...I avoid the places where you can get spotted dick...

[bastonjock]

yes i guess that the finer points of plum duff and spotted dick is wasted on our buddys from the states

What about worcestershire sauce? that must be another foodstuff thats particular to the UK,i just love a splash of worcester in soup,accompanied by a chunk of fresh bread from the baker

When i first came down to England i used to crave for square sausage,tattie scones and scotch pies

[bastonjock]

Matt,

Just let me know when the next trip is and I will get some more of that Grade A USDA Approved Premium beef...now I am hungry again.

Jim

i will organise another sail in the spring its a bit crazy out there at the moment,the wind is mostly straight off of Russia and the artic,the weather is more stormy than normal,and its bitterly cold